Features
Sakai provides users with a suite of capabilities that best meet the needs of today’s teachers and learners. The functionality can be assembled to create spaces for a variety of purposes. The list of Sakai current core tools is provided below. In addition, there are a large number of add-on tools (called “contrib”) available that are in use by many Sakai institutions.
The Sakai CLE is a flexible, enterprise application that supports teaching, learning and scholarly collaboration in either fully or partially online environments. Sakai also has a robust and full-featured online portfolio system built-in. The Sakai CLE is distributed as free, open-source software, which offers the ultimate in flexibility and avoids the risks of vendor lock-in and escalating license costs.
Highly Customizable
Instructors teach in a variety of different styles using a wide array of methods. Sakai meets the needs of the institution, the individual instructor and students through its highly customizable nature. Sakai’s architecture is modular and individual instructors can select the tools they want available for their class. Or you can configure sites that are specifically designed for research collaboration or administrative work groups. And because the source code is freely available, you always have the option of changing or adding a feature that would make Sakai work even better on your campus.
Sakai 2.6 Tools and Features
Faculty, students and staff benefit from the rich array of tools and features that are available with the Sakai CLE. Because leading universities around the world developed these tools, you know that they meet real needs on campus. Some of the many available tools include:
| General Collaboration Tools | Teaching and Learning Tools |
| Announcements: Post current, time-critical information to a site.
Resources: Post, store and organize material related to the site. Site Roster: View a list of site participants and their pictures Email Archive: Access an archive of email sent to participants Wiki:Create and edit web content collaboratively. Blog: Provides blogging capability for your class. Calendar: Maintain deadlines, activities and site related events Chat: Engage in real-time conversations with site participants Discussion Forum: Create, moderate and manage discussion topics and groups within a course and send private messages to site participants. Glossary: Provide contextual definitions for terms used on a site Web Page: Display external web pages. News: Display custom news content from dynamic, online sources via rss. |
Syllabus: Post a summary outline of course requirements Lesson Builder: Create and publish online learning sequences. Assignments: Create and grade online or offline assignments. Drop Box: Share files privately with site participants. Gradebook: Calculate, store and distribute grade information to students Tests & Quizzes: Create and manage online assessments |
| Portfolio Tools | Administrative Tools |
| Design, publish, share and view portfolios of work
Wizards & Matrices: Create structures to help site participants document and reflect upon their learning and development Evaluations: Provide site participants with summative feedback on submissions to wizards and matrices Reports: Build, view and export reports on portfolio-related site activity Layouts & Styles: Manage pre-defined Styles used to control the visual style (fonts, colors, etc.) of Wizards and Matrices, and Portfolios Portfolio Templates: Manage templates site participants use to create standardized portfolios |
Accounts: Manage basic account information and passwords
Membership: View and modify site memberships Site Setup: Create new sites, modify sites you own Site Editor:Change the structure, content or membership of a site Section Info: Manage sections within a course site Super User (SU): Assume the identity of another user in the system for troubleshooting and support Users: View and edit user data in the system Realms: Manage roles and permissions On-Line: Track server and system usage Job Selector: Create scheduled data integration and data warehouse tasks |
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