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The goal of this page is to include all copy text and other resources that have been submitted for the Sakai public Web site. Once all materials are collected, team members will be asked to review, revise, and submit additional content before everything is moved to the Sakai Public Web site. If the content you're looking for does not appear here, please review its status at: Public Site Needs and Responsibilities Matrix.
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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, a group of collaborative learning tools that will eventually replace the MyUCDavis course management tools (e.g. Gradebook and QuizBuilder). Sakai works equally well on both Macs and PCs, So feel free to dig right in and familiarize yourself with the project's history, interact with the new tools, and get involved by participating in events, or even joining the pilot project.
What is the Sakai Project?
The Sakai Project is a software development effort, bringing together over eighty one hundred 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).
What's in it for me?
In Sakai , there are has tools for everyone. What can you do with them?
- 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, organize your lessons, host virtual office hours from any location with highspeed Internet access.
- Researchers: Network with colleagues, organize data, collaborate on projects, chat in real time, brainstorm solutions on discussion boards, host video conferences, and stream PowerPoint presentations, just 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.
Best of all, this stable and easy to use system is open-source, which means that allows universities are free to both improve the existing code and add additional features as they become needed. With over 85 educational institutions across the country now 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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