Transcript Course Management System

SAKAI
February 2005
What is SAKAI?
• Sakai ≠ Course Management System
• Sakai = Collaboration & Learning
Environment
Four Main Colleges
Michigan
•CHEF Framework
•CourseTools
•WorkTools
Indiana
•Navigo Assessment
•Eden Workflow
•Oncourse
MIT
Stellar
Stanford
CourseWork
Assessment
Now over 45 other
universities have joined
in an international effort
to develop the next
generation of software
infrastructure and tools
to support research and
teaching.
“ It is a hard job to build and
maintain common ground, even
among just 4-6 schools “
SAKAI: Progress so far
Sep 03:
University of Michigan, Indiana University, MIT and Stanford University
decide to go ahead
Dec 03: Mellon grants $2.4M
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Jan 04: Sakai project kicks off
Feb 04: SEPP launched with $300K grant from Hewlett
May 04: Foothill-De Anza Community College District awarded $ 600K by Hewlett to
adopt and extend Sakai
Jun 04: Sakai CLE 1.0 Beta released to SEPP partners during first SEPP conference
at Denver
Jul 04:
SEPP members join Sakai Board
Jul 04:
Sakai CLE 1.0 RC1 released to public
Aug 04: Sakai CLE 1.0 RC2 released
Sep 04: SEPP members number 43
Oct 04: Sakai 1.0 released and available at Collab.sakaiproject.org
SAKAI 1.0
Sakai 1.0 is installable/runable out of the box
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Adds the following capabilities:
– Generic Worksite Setup
– Create Account button
• Ability to allow users to create an account, rather than having an Admin
create all accounts or relying on an external account provider
– MySql support (in addition to Oracle)
– Install configuration process
– Documentation
• Installation, configuration, admin
This is the ‘run it now out of the box’ version
SAKAI >>> Going Forward
Oct – Dec 04
: Sakai CLE ver 1.0.0 fine tuning
Jan 05
: Sakai CLE ver 1.5 released
May 05
: Sakai CLE ver 2.0 released
Aug – Dec 05
: Deployment and implementation at the Sakai core institutions
Jan 06
: Sakai project complete
SAKAI 1.5 – January 05
• Pilot - Assessment (Samigo) and Gradebook
• Better organization, searching, sorting of sites by term, site type (course vs project)
• Public setting on a site – non-authenticated users can browse site public content
• Improved reporting on users, server/usage/site statistics for admins and support
• Improved ability to assume role of particular user and/or admin levels for support
• Hierarchical organization of sites – URL is more friendly,
indicates the context of the site (year, term, subject)
• Groups – ability to specify groups of users in a site
• Help available on every tool
• Enforced copyright control when reading/downloading Resources
• Enhanced My Profile – added information about the user, editable by the user
• Ability to rename a user account and maintain ownership of content
• Syllabus construction tool
• Whisper function in Chat
SAKAI 2.0 – May 05
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Continued Framework development
Documentation updated to reflect current framework
Integrated Assessment (Samigo)
Integrated Grade book
TPP/Development kit
Tool conformity to Style Guide
OSID implementations – list growing
SAKAI Final Product
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Course Management Capabilities
– Sites for individual course offerings
– Roster control with input from SIS
– Sub-groups for study, projects, discussion, etc.
– Drop box for assignments
– Course content, access control.
– Email lists per class.
– Based on best-in-class features from CTools, OnCourse, Stellar, and
CourseWorks
Assessment
– Broad support for tests, quizzes, problem sets.
– Based on IMS QTI 1.0.
– Item banks for random test generation.
– Rubrics for scoring.
SAKAI Final Product Continued…
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Gradebook
– Student, group, class data.
– Curving, weighting, adjustments, editing.
– Graphs and statistics.
Collaboration
– Support for on-line research and work groups.
– Forum, threaded discussions, chat.
– Announcements, calendar.
– Resource management, document control.
– Web content references.
– Archived email lists.
SAKAI Final Product Continued…
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Enterprise Integration
– Student information systems
– Registration systems
– Digital Libraries
– Repositories
– Single sign on and authentication
– Remote authorization
Scalability and Performance
– Small and larger databases
– Clustering, load balancing
– Caching
SAKAI Test Installation
http://smcweb2.smccd.net:8080/portal?site=1107797887780-72