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The Sakai Project is a software development effort to bring , bringing together over eighty educational institutions to who have collaboratively construct constructed a sophisticated, easy-to-use, extendable set of course management tools known collectively as a Collaborative Learning Environment (CLE).
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.
Sakai Project Background
Sakai 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.
The Reasons for Change
Many faculty and students have voiced concern about the slowness and instability of MyUCDavis. We understand these concerns and recognize that it is imperative that UC Davis??? ' learning information systems keep pace with the ever-increasing demands and expectations of students and instructors. ? Adopting the Sakai course management tools will allow UCDavis to bring its course management system up to date and to enhance the tools already provided and additionally leverage the work of an international community towards its support.
The Benefits of Collaboration
Using Sakai will resolve many of the concerns that both faculty and students have voiced about MyUCDavis. Not only is the system more stable and easier to use, it???s expandable and can evolve alongside our rapidly changing technology environment, instead of drowning in its wake.
With over 85 educational institutions across the country contributing to the creation of the Sakai course management system, faculty will undoubtedly appreciate the unyielding focus afforded their teaching needs and pedagogical concerns. Extendibility is the unified strategy.
Tools
- 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 grades
- Message: 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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