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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.

What is the Sakai Project?
The Sakai Project is a software development effort to bring together over eighty educational institutions to collaboratively construct a sophisticated, easy-to-use, extendable set of course management tools known collectively as a Collaborative Learning Environment (CLE).

Tools for Everyone!
With its vast array of tools, Sakai can prove useful for staff, students, and researches. The system stable, easy to use, expandable, and can 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.

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About Sakai

The Sakai Project is a software development effort to bring together over eighty educational institutions to collaboratively construct 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 UC Davis??? learning information systems keep pace with the ever-increasing demands and expectations of students and instructors.? Adopting Sakai will allow UCDavis to bring its course management system up to date and to 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