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[edit] Sakai's Tools

• Home Description of the project, recent announcements, discussion, and chat items.
• Announcements For posting current, time-critical information.
• Assignments For posting, submitting and grading assignment(s) online.
• Blogger A blogging tool
• Chat Room For real-time conversations in written form.
• Drop Box Allows instructors and students to share documents within a private folder for each student.
• Forums Tool for asynchronous discussions
• Glossary Glossary Tool
• Gradebook For storing and computing assessment grades from Tests & Quizzes or that are manually entered.
• Membership Displays all the sites currently involved in as well as allowing users to browse through a list of joinable sites.
• Messages Display messages to/from users of a particular site -- Inter-Sakai-E-Mail
• News For viewing content from online sources.
• Podcasts For managing individual podcast and podcast feed information.
• Polls For anonymous polls or voting
• Post'Em For uploading .csv formatted file to display feedback (e.g., comments, grades) to site participants.
• Resources For posting documents, URLs to other websites, etc.
  • Making PDF documents
  • Links to library databases
• Roster For viewing the site participants list.
• Schedule A calendar for posting and viewing deadlines, events, etc.
• Search For searching content
• Section Info For managing sections within a site.
• Sign-up Create meetings for site members to sign-up for.
• Site Info For showing modifying site information, adding and removing site participants and managing groups.
  • Add Participants
  • Publish a Site
  • Manage Groups
  • Import From Site
• Statistics Site Stats allows you to view user statistics for your site.
• Syllabus For posting a summary outline and/or requirements for a site.
• Tests and Quizzes For creating and taking online tests and quizzes.
  • There are two methods for creating new Tests and Quizzes:
    1. The common web based method of Creating a new assessment by entering questions followed by an answer(s) and distractors
    2. The Quick Create method which emulates how one might type out a test or quiz in a word processor or on a writer
  • Add Questions to Question Pool
  • View Student Scores And Answers
  • Take Assessment
• Web Content For accessing an external website within the site.
• Wiki For collaborative editing of pages and content

[edit] Open Source Portfolio

Provisional list of tools for use with the Open Source Portfolio component of Sakai

• Evaluations OSP Evaluations
• Glossary OSP Glossary Tool
• Matrices OSP Matrices Tool
• Portfolio Layouts OSP Layouts Tool
• Portfolio Templates OSP Portfolio Templates
• Portfolios OSP Portfolios
• Styles OSP Style Helper Tool
• Wizards OSP Wizards Tool

[edit] How to add tools in Sakai

Using the Site Info tool, you can add, edit, or remove the tools on the menubar. To do so, follow the steps below:

1. In your site, from the menubar on the left, click Site Info.
2. Click Edit Tools from the grey menu across the top.
3. Check the boxes next to the tools that you wish to add to your menubar; uncheck the box if you are removing a tool.
4. Click Continue at the bottom of the page.
   • If you're adding the News or Web Content tools, the Customize Tools screen will provide you a chance to make certain changes. When you're finished, click Continue.
5. On the confirmation screen, you will see a list of your site's tools and any changes you've made. If the list is accurate, click Finish.

[edit] Other Tools

• Profile

Other articles about Isaak/Sakai's tools and how instructors can use them:

Core Tools:   Announcements | Assignments | Forums | Gradebook | Resources | Schedule | Tests and Quizzes

More Tools:   Blogger | Chat Room | Drop Box | Home | Messages | News | Podcasts | Statistics | Web Content | Wiki

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Related articles:   How to add tools to your course | Using the Text Editor | Manage Groups | Permissions and roles | Contact the CTLET for help