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My Workspace
ELearning in Sakai
Randy Graff, PhD
HSC Training
My Workspace
Main page
Refresh Button
Schedule
Resources
Announcements
Worksite Setup
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Administrative Message
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Tabs
Calendar
Information
Announcements
Navigation
All of your courses will be arranged across the top of the screen in tabs. If you have more courses that can be
displayed, those courses will appear in a drop down list either on the extreme right or the left underneath the “My
Workspace” tab.
My Workspace is an individual online worksite that functions as a private
workspace for each user. When you log in, you will automatically open your
My Workspace, which will display the Message of the Day and My Workspace
Information boxes. By default, these boxes contain announcements and
information from the system administrator.
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Menu
Refresh
This is one of the most important buttons in Sakai. Use it to
refresh and go back to top menu of this section.
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Schedule
Schedule allows instructors or site organizers to post items in a calendar format. The calendar has
day, week, month, year, and flat list views.
Many instructors use Schedule to post readings for each class on the day they are due to be read.
Research, group, and department projects often use Schedule to post group deadlines.
Merging calendars: All calendars on sites you have access to are merged in your My
Workspace Schedule. In worksites, you can click Merge to selectively merge calendars from
other sites to which you have access.
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Merge
Create a view that combines all of you your
ELearning calendars into one view in your Calendar
on the My Workspace screen
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Resources – Your files for all of your courses organized in folders.
Using the Resources tool, you can share many kinds of material securely with members of
your site, or make them available to the public. You also have your own private Resources
area in your My Workspace.
You can upload files (e.g., word processing documents, spreadsheets, slide presentations,
and videos), as well as create and post HTML (web) pages and simple text documents, and
share links to useful web sites.
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Upload
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To upload files using Resources, in your site's menubar, click Resources:
1. Next to the folder to which you want to add a file, from the Add menu, click Upload Files.
2. Click Browse to find the appropriate file on your computer or network, and then
click Open.
3. Next to "Display Name", type the name you want displayed in Resources. If you don't add
a display name, the filename will be used.
4. To upload more than one file, click Add Another File.
5. Next to "Email Notification", specify whether or not you want to have members of the site
notified automatically via email when the resource is posted.
6. Click Upload Files Now to finish.
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Webdav
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WebDAV allows you to easily transfer files and folders from your local computer to
your Resources folder. WebDAV stands for "Web-based Distributed Authoring and
Versioning". It allows users to collaboratively edit and manage files on remote
web servers.
Once you have set up WebDAV, your computer will treat your Resources section
like any other folder on your local system. You will be able to drag and drop files
and folders from Resources just as you would on your computer.
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Create Folder
Create a Folder - To store your files.
By default, your Resources area has one folder in it, named after your course
or project site. To add a subfolder:
1.Near the existing folder, from the Add menu, choose Create Folders.
2.Near "Folder Name", enter a title for your folder.
3.To add a description and control who can access the contents of the folder, click
Add details for this item.
4.To create another folder, click Add Another Folder.
5.When you are finished, click Create Folders Now.
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Unsupported Characters
Do not use these in folder or file names.
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Replace
Replace a File – Update on the go.
Whenever you open a file from Resources, such as a Word document, your computer
creates a temporary copy and displays it, while the original file stays on the server. If you
make any changes to the temporary copy, they are not saved automatically to the original.
If you want to change the contents of the original, you will need to open it, make and save
your changes, and then replace the original version with your updated version.
To replace a Resources file with an updated version from your computer, from the
Actions menu next to your file's name, click Upload New Version. Click Browse to select
the updated file from your computer, and then click Upload New Version Now.
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Add Announcement
My Workspace
The Announcements tool is used to inform site participants
about current items of interest. Announcements can have
multiple attachments, such as documents or URLs and
appears in the My Workspace tab.
To add an announcement:
1. In your site's menubar, click Announcements.
On the Announcements screen, near the top, click Add.
In the text box next to "Announcement title", type the
subject of your announcement.
In the text box under "Body", use the WYSIWYG editor to
create and format the body of your announcement.
2. Set dates of availability, add attachments and choose
how to notify students.
3. Click Add Announcements.
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Worksite
The Worksite Setup tool provides information about the worksites to which you currently
belong or may join. If you have a role that allows it, you can use this tool to make changes
to information about the site, tools available in the site, and access to the site.
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Customize Tabs
Site Visibility
In My Workspace, you can set preferences for how and how often you
receive email notification of worksite activity, such as Announcements,
Email Archive, Resources, and Syllabus. You can also choose which
worksites appear in your navigation, and which worksites have their
own tabs.
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Notifications
From My Workspace, you can set the email and notification preferences for your course sites, project
sites, and ePortfolio sites.
You cannot adjust your preferences for individual sites. For example, if you set your email notification
to deliver a daily summary, you will get a daily summary message from all sites to which you belong. Or,
if you choose to block low priority announcements or low priority resource notifications, then these
will be blocked for all your sites. You cannot block receipt of high priority notifications.
My Workspace
Main page
Refresh Button
Schedule
Resources
Announcements
Worksite Setup