New
Course Management Tools
for
UC Davis Faculty
(Sakai)
Andy Jones
Nancy Olsen
April 5, 2006
Goals
• Bring UC Davis’ course management system
into the 21st Century & make extending it viable.
• Use the course management system as a
collaborative learning environment.
• MyUCDavis is increasingly hard to support, extend,
and scale; many tools within it will be replaced.
What is Sakai?
• Sakai is a course management system and
collaborative learning environment developed
collectively by
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University of Michigan
Indiana University
Stanford
MIT
• Now more than 100 colleges and universities
worldwide involved and contributing.
From My to Sakai
UC Davis
• In June, 2005, CCFIT recommended installing a new
CMS for campus and chose Sakai.
• A collaborative effort to switch to Sakai tools is now
underway and involves IET-Mediaworks, Veterinary
Medicine, and the School of Medicine.
Features Overview
My Wor kspace
for a personalized view of information from your Sakai sites and your
Sakai preferences
Worksite Setup
for viewing a list of all your Sakai sites, and creating or mod ifying their
setup
Schedule
for posting and viewing deadlines, events, etc
Anno uncements for posting current, time-critical information
Lesson Buil der
for posting web pages and sequential content
Resourc es
for posting web pages and sequentially controlled content
Quiz & Test
for online assessments and surveys
Disc ussion
for structured conversations in written form
Chat
for real-time conversation in written form
News
for viewing content from on line sources
Assignments
for posting, submitting, and grading online
DropBox
for private file-sharing between instructors and students
Email Archive
for viewing ema il sent to the site's group email address
Web Content
for accessing an external website within the site
SCORM
Mediaworks SCORM Player for advanced Assessments
Sakai Timeline
• Two Year Implementation Plan (Ideal Case)
• Project Phases:
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Discovery (Fall 2005)
Small Pilots (Winter/Spring 2006)
Preview (Summer/Fall 2006)
Transition (undecided, but one full year or more to transition)
Faculty Support
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ITExpress
ETPartners
TRC/MW Trainer (Nancy)
Summer Institute on Technology in
Teaching (SITT)
Macromedia Breeze
• Presenter:
– Streamed PowerPoint
– Optional Audio
– Optional Quiz elements
• Breeze Live
– Live, online Office Hours
– Discussion with remote groups
– Live Collaboration
• Classroom PowerPoint Broadcasts
Want More Information?
Contact
Andy
(aojones@ucdavis.edu)
or
Nancy
(nsolsen@ucdavis.edu)
for a departmental demonstration