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- Sakai Documentation: The Least You Need to Know
- ITX Support (Hours/Locations/What/When/Where)
- Faculty Profiles, Testimonials: Pilot Participants, Spotlights
- Online Video Tutorials (Captivates)
- Testimonials / Spotlights / Profiles / Podcasts
- Sakai Documentation: Student Users Guide
- Sakai Documentation: Faculty Users Guide
- Student Quick Reference Guide
- Faculty Quick Reference Guide
- Glossary of Terms
- Podcasts
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Welcome to the Sakai public Web site. Here you can prepare for the UC Davis roll-out of the Sakai course management system, familiarize yourself with the project's history, interact with the new tools, and get involved both by participating in events, and joining the pilot project!.
What is the Sakai Project?
The Sakai Project is a software development effort, bringing together over eighty educational institutions who have collaboratively constructed a sophisticated, easy-to-use, extendable set of course management tools known collectively as a Collaborative Learning Environment (CLE).
Tools for Everyone!
The new set of Sakai tools offer an array of services, depending on your needsWhat's in it for me?
In Sakai, there are tools for everyone.
- Instructors: Provide a collaborative learning environment for students that is accessible on and off campus, encourage collaborative learning by allowing students to build publicly editable wikis, encourage critical discourse on discussion boards, keep track of your courses, host virtual office hours from any location with highspeed Internet acces, and more.
- Researchers: Network with colleagues, organize data, collaborate on projects, chat in real time, brainstorm solutions ondiscussion on discussion boards, host video conferences, and stream PowerPoint presentations, and morejust to name of few of the possibilities.
- Students: Host Web sites, plan events, share files, form social networks, organize student groups, host study sessions, collaborate on creative projects, create research groups, and more.
With its vast array of tools, Sakai will prove useful for all users. Also, the stable, Best of all, this stable and easy to use system is open-source and thus completely expandable. With over 85 educational institutions across the country contributing to the creation of the Sakai course management system, faculty, staff, students, and researchers will undoubtedly appreciate the unyielding focus afforded their unique needs, as the system evolves alongside our rapidly changing technological environment.
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