Sakai
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The Sakai Collaboration and Learning Environment is a web-based application that supports teaching, learning and scholarly collaboration with a number of publishing tools. Sakai will allow faculty to supplement their face-to-face teaching, while online courses will utilize the application to teach courses completely on-line with minimal or no face-to-face meeting.
Note: The University of Rhode Island is in the process of migrating from WebCT to Sakai for online instruction and collaboration. The move will be completed by the Fall '09 semester and WebCT will be shut down at the end of August.
Sakai Pages
Sakai | Sakai Tools | Student Sakai | Faculty Sakai
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Login
At the login prompt, enter your eCampus username and Webmail/WebCT/Wireless password (generally not your eCampus password). Try logging into Webmail first to make sure this username/password combination is correct. If you still have trouble logging in, please contact the Help Desk at 874-HELP for assistance.
- eCampus Username
- Webmail Password
Courses
Sakai migration from WebCT
Here is a guide to migrating your course from WebCT to Sakai: Site Migration.
Course Site
At the start of each semester, courses and course rosters are pulled from eCampus and placed in Sakai as data. Faculty must then log in and create a "Course Site". During the creation process, faculty can specify the appropriate course and section. This will automatically add the roster for that section to the Sakai site. Note that faculty can choose to combine rosters from multiple sections of a course into a single Sakai site. If there are any problems with adding rosters, please have the chair of the department contact Enrollment Services.
Project Site
Faculty and Staff may also create a "Project Site" whose participants must be managed by the owner/maintainer. eCampus usernames and/or email addresses can be individually added to a site. Whereas a Course Site designates users as "Instructor", "Teaching Assistant", or "Student", a Project Site designates users only as "Maintainer" (owner) or "Access" (participant).
Tips & Hints
Pasting from Word
When pasting from Microsoft Word, use the Paste from Word option in the rich text editor to avoid junk characters. If the result is still not desirable, try Paste as Text.
Forum Posting
Posting wide images or long strings of text may require some users to scroll left and right to view the content. To avoid this, paste images in a Word document and attach it to the forum posting. Use services like Tinyurl for long links.
Related Links:
http://www.uri.edu/its/sakai.html
