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- 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 boards, host video conferences, stream PowerPoint presentations, and more!.
- 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. What's moreAlso, the stable, easy to use system is 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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- Announcements: Inform site participants of current items of interest
- Assignments: Create, distribute, collect, and grade online assignments
- Chat room: Carry on real-time conversations with worksite participants
- Discussion: Hold structured conversations organized into categories
- Drop Box: Share documents within private folders between instructors and students
- Email Archive: Keep track of course or project site email correspondence
- Gradebook: Manage grades and submit as Final final grades
- Message Center: Center Communicate through discussion forum topics and private messaging
- Modules: Create ordered content for student review
- News: Add RSS feeds to your worksite
- Preferences: Control how often you are notified of course or project site activity
- Project Sites: Use Sakai for other purposes besides teaching (e.g., research collaboration)
- Quiz and survey: Create online assessments
- Resources: Make any kind of material available online
- Schedule: Organize and post items in a calendar format
- Section/Group: Info Manage sections of a class (lectures, labs, discussions, studio work, recitations, or any combination thereof)
- Site Info: Maintain course or project site settings
- Syllabus: Post and maintain your official course outline
- Web Content: Maintain course or project site settings
- Wiki: Create/contribute to a collaborative, editable Web site
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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 that can be tailored to the needs of the university. When you switch to Sakai, you'll enjoy all the MyUCDavis features you are accustomed to, plus a whole host of new, intuitive, easy-to-use tools created by universities for universities. The Sakai project has its origins at the University of Indiana and the University of Michigan, where both universities independently began open source efforts to enhance their course management systems. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford soon joined in, along with the Open Knowledge Initiative and the uPortal consortium. UC Davis is proud to work alongside all the dedicated members of the Sakai consortium.
What is a
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Course Management System (CMS)?
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A Course Management System (CMS) is a group of online applications that instructors may use to improve and diversify their classes by bringing in novel online-technologies, such GradeBook, QuizBuilder, Online Grade Submission, Surveys, Announcements, etc.
What is a Collaborative Learning Environment (CLE)?
A Collaborative Learning Environment (CLE) refers to new and revolutionary technologies that allow participants to share information, collaborate on research, organize clubs or meetings, and much more. A CLE includes any number of tools, including a wiki (an open, community maintained Web site), chat rooms, discussion boards, and more.
What can students, faculty, staff, and researchers do with Sakai?
Here are just a few suggestions to get you started:
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In the winter and spring of 2006, the Faculty Mentoring Faculty program hosted a Sakai pilot, where instructors from various departments tested Sakai and provided their feedback as well as feature requests. Intrigued by Sakai's features, various instructors have begun using Sakai both in and out of the classroom. As of now, programmers are working to enhance the QuizBuilder and GradeBook so they more accurately respond to professors' needs. In addition, the Sakai Community continues to enhance the core Sakai toolset. The timeline for these changes will allow UCD to make Sakai available for an extended pilot in the Fall 2006. Additional functionality in support of large courses with multiple sections and instructors should be available for testing by Winter Quarter 2007. More detailed information on these developments should be available mid summer 2006.
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- Test and closely evaluate new collaboration and learning tools
- Identify suggestions and issues encountered
- Prioritize enhancements to suit the system to your needs
- Receive one-on-one technical support from team members, as well as the dedicated ET Partners.
- Provide recommendations to guide the direction of Sakai development.
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Want to be one of the first to test drive Sakai? Want your course-management needs heard? By joining Joining the pilot project , gives you will be have the opportunity to work side-by-side with specially-trained ET Partners, who can will assist you in accomplishing a any project you develop.
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