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What is the current status of Sakai and what are the university's future plans?
In the Winter winter and Spring spring of 2006, the Faculty Mentoring Faculty program hosted a Sakai pilot, where instructors from various departments tested Sakai for the first time and identified complications and provided their feedback as well as provided feature requests for additional features. Intrigued by Sakai's features, various instructors have already begun utilizing 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 professorprofessors' s 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.
What's in it for me?
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Who should consider using Sakai this fall?
Instructors teaching small classes with a single section are encouraged to begin experimenting with Sakai this fall. Instructors , or who often implement include group work, research, collaboration, and technology into in their curriculum, are also encouraged to begin exploring the new opportunities Sakai will allow youexperimenting with Sakai this fall.
As Sakai's GradeBook does not yet provide adequate support for larger classes with multiple sections, we do not recommend instructors of such courses participate at this time.
As Sakai's GradeBook does not yet provide adequate support for larger classes with multiple sections, participation by professors of such courses is not recomended at this time.
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