Project Site Creation Process Tutorial (Admins)

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Last updated: Aug 21, 2006Version comment
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Creating a project site in Sakai (SmartSite instance)

This is a summary of the steps needed to create a project site in Sakai. Sites may be created either by the Sites tool or the Worksite Setup tool. Sites tool is only available for admins.

Creating "Skeleton site"

Method Using Site tool in Sakai ONLY ADMINS

  1. Log in as user who has "maintain" privileges in Sakai. One account who has these rights is the sitemaker account.
  2. Click on the "Sites" item in the left hand navigation area
  3. Select "New Site" link in the center, top of the page
  4. Fill in the information for the site. Some examples are:
  • Site Id: Scott's Favorite Site
  • Title: A Test Site
  • Type: project
  • Short Description: some short description
  • Description: some description
  • Published: published (this will allow members to see the site)
  • Joinable?: no (yes would give people ability to join site, and expose site to all)
  • Role to assign to joiners: (e.g. access, maintain, Student, Instructor, etc.) Project sites have default of "access" role assigned.
  • Worksite Icon URL:
  • Worksite Info URL:
  • Skin:
  • Public View?: no
    **See attachment screenshot of Site Detail for more information.

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.