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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 voice your requests and concerns by getting involved.get involved by participating in events and joining the pilot project!
What is the Sakai Project?
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).
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- Instructors: Provide a collaborative learning environment for students that is accessible on and off campus, encourage collaborative learning using publicly accessible 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 organize data, Collaborate collaborate on projects, Chat chat in real time, Brainstorm brainstorm solutions in discussion boards, 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 can will prove useful for staff, students, and researches. This new, all users. What's more, the stable, easy to use system is expandable, which will allow it to evolve alongside our rapidly changing technological environment. 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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