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Creating a course site in Sakai

This is a summary of the steps needed to create a course site in Sakai. Course sites can be created using the Worksite Setup or Sites tool. Sites tool is only available for admins.
The Worksite setup tool method is the only one discussed, because this is the process that admins should be using to create course sites if needed. The Sites tool can be further used to update site information once the initial course site is created, if need be. One can follow the same process described in creating Project sites, using the Sites tool described in the Project Site Creation Tutorial.

Creating "Skeleton course site"

Method Using Worksite setup tool in Sakai NOT FOR ADMINS

  1. Click on the "Worksite setup" item in the left hand navigation area
  2. Select "New" link in the center, top of the page
  3. Fill in the information for the site. Some examples are:
  • Type: course website
    --Academic Term: Summer 2006. We need to handle this better, in that the term will appear when the user selects the Site Info tool. We need to sync the properties data with Banner at some point, and Sakai 2.2 handles this properly with the site manage tool.
  • Title: BIS 001A 001 (appears in the tab)
    --Note, this will create a site with the format "SUBJ COURSEID SECTION". Based on what academic term was selected previously, the tab will show a Quarter that is not synced up directly with what will be used in the batch provisioning process at a later date. The batch process uses the format SUBJ COURSEID SECTION TERMABBREV TERMYR
  • Roster: Choose I want to give access to a roster not listed above
  • Authorizer's name: account that authorizes this site to be created. E.g. sitemaker
  • Short Description: some short description of the course
  • Description: some description of the course
  • Appearance(icon): default
  • Contact, Contact email information
  • Tool Set: Email Archive, etc. Whatever tools you want to have in site. Is there a default set?
  • Publish site?: yes
  • Role to assign to joiners: (e.g. Student, Instructor, etc.) Course sites will have default of "Student" role assigned.
  • Select "Request site" upon confirmation of details.
    Site is then created for you.

Adding members to site

What you need in advance:
List of kerberos names that you are adding to the site. This assumes that the user accounts have been created already. If not, go to Sakai User Account Creation Tutorial

  1. Log in as the Sakai account that created the above site (if already still as this user, go to next step)
  2. Select "Worksite Setup" from left hand menu item
  3. Select the site you want to add members to, and click the "Revise" link at center, top of screen
  4. Select the "Add Participants" link at center,top of page
  5. When given the textarea to add participants, add the given kerberos names with a hard enter after each name
  6. Check to see if the kerberos names were added correctly. They should be listed in the "roster" of the site
  7. Define whether or not you want to give roles to the members independently, or as a group. For example, if I wanted to add 5 members as all having access I can give all members the access role at once.
  8. Give appropriate members their respective roles in the site, and check the member list.
  9. Save the site
  10. Exit site
    **See attachment screenshot of Update Site Participants for more information.
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