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Sakai Overview. ITS Teaching and Learning Interactive Aurora Collado January 10, 2008. Syllabus Calendar Announcements Resources Lessons Blogger Site Roster Email Archive. Assignments Tests & Quizzes Drop Box Gradebook Feedback Wiki Discussion Forums Messages
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Sakai Overview ITS Teaching and Learning Interactive Aurora Collado January 10, 2008
Syllabus Calendar Announcements Resources Lessons Blogger Site Roster Email Archive Assignments Tests & Quizzes Drop Box Gradebook Feedback Wiki Discussion Forums Messages Chat Room Sakai Tools
Sakai Tools • Syllabus • HTML, file upload or URL format • Public or Site view • Email notification • Calendar • Set permissions among Guest, Instructor, Student, TA, Tech Support • Event type • Group/Section aware • Email notification
Sakai Tools • Announcements • Set permissions among Guest, Instructor, Student, TA, Tech Support • Public or Site view • Group/Section aware • Email notification • Release by date specified
Sakai Tools • Resources • Add file uploads, folders, web Links, HTML pages, Text documents • Set permissions among Guest, Instructor, Student, TA, Tech Support • Public or Site view • Group/Section aware • Email notification • Release by date specified
Sakai Tools • Lessons • Learning modules with sections • Creation with rich text editor, uploading learning objects, or pointing to existing URL resources • Blogger • Allows the creation of journals • Entries created with rich text editor, inserting images and attaching files • Abstract and keywords • Private and worksite visibility of entries, specified by author • Entries can be searched easily and commented by other users
Sakai Tools • Roster • Group/Section aware • Email Archive • Listserv function • Users can set notification preferences • Set permissions among Guest, Instructor, Student, TA, Tech Support
Sakai Tools • Assignments • Multiple grading options (letter grades, points, checkmarks…) • Instructors can download all submissions to an assignment to their computer at once • Students can access instructor comments and their grades • It posts grades to the Gradebook • Set permissions among Guest, Instructor, Student, TA, Tech Support • Add honor pledge • Add due date to Calendar • Add announcement • Group/Section aware • Email notification
Sakai Tools • Tests and Quizzes • Multiple question types • Automatic grading • Grades can be sent to gradebook • Different Assessment types with custom settings • Question pools available
Sakai Tools • Drop Box • Private folder for each student • Allows to upload many types of files • Allows to upload many files at a time • Set permissions among Guest, Instructor, Student, TA, Tech Support for each folder
Sakai Tools • Gradebook • Create items automatically or manually • Export and import grades (csv format) • Group/Section aware • Insert comments with grades • Feedback • Allows to give general feedback to students using a csv file
Sakai Tools • Wiki • Allows to create and update wiki pages with a rich text editor • See activity history • Set up email notifications • Forums • Integrated with Resources and Gradebook • Statistics available to determine participation level of individual participants • Set and distribute permissions among users
Sakai Tools • Messages • Group/Section aware • Private messaging between individuals or groups • Rich text, plain text, and HTML editing and attachments • Email notifications
Sakai Tools • Chat Room • Real-time communications • Add rooms to accommodate more than one discussion. • Set permissions among Guest, Instructor, Student, TA, Tech Support • Chat messages are archived and can be read by any site participant • Tool shows participants available to chat
Sakai Tools • News Tool • Is an RSS "news aggregator" • Specify a URL pointing to an RSS news feed • Web Content • Display external websites within their worksite • Search Tool • search content created by tools within a worksite • Search different types of content (messages, web pages in HTML format, documents in DOC, PDF, or RTF format, spreadsheets in XLS format, and Wiki pages)