Sakai Overview
ITS Teaching and Learning Interactive
Aurora Collado
January 10, 2008
Sakai Tools
Syllabus
Assignments
Calendar
Tests & Quizzes
Announcements
Drop Box
Resources
Gradebook
Lessons
Feedback
Blogger
Wiki
Site Roster
Discussion Forums
Email Archive
Messages
Chat Room
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 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
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 Announcements
• Set permissions among Guest, Instructor,
Student, TA, Tech Support
• Public or Site view
• Group/Section aware
• Email notification
• Release by date specified
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 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
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 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
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 Roster
• Group/Section aware
 Email Archive
• Listserv function
• Users can set notification preferences
• Set permissions among Guest, Instructor,
Student, TA, Tech Support
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 Assignments
• Multiple grading options (letter grades, points, checkmarks…)
• Instructors can download all submissions to an assignment to their
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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
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 Tests and Quizzes
• Multiple question types
• Automatic grading
• Grades can be sent to gradebook
• Different Assessment types with custom
settings
• Question pools available
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 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
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 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
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Forums
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Allows to create and update wiki pages with a rich
text editor
See activity history
Set up email notifications
Integrated with Resources and Gradebook
Statistics available to determine participation
level of individual participants
Set and distribute permissions among users
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 Messages
• Group/Section aware
• Private messaging between individuals or
groups
• Rich text, plain text, and HTML editing and
attachments
• Email notifications
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 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
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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)
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