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Sakai tools can be activated by going to Site Info > Edit Tools in your Sakai course site.
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==Add Tools to your Sakai Courses (Site Info tool / Edit Tools)==
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Sakai has a lot of tools that you can add to and use in your courses! Your Sakai courses contain a set of default tools: Home, Announcements, Syllabus, Email, Email Archive, Resources, Schedule, Gradebook, Statistics, Site Info, Roster, and Help. If you’d like to try out some of the other Sakai tools, you must turn them on.  
  
===User Activity===
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* [[Media:ToolList.pdf|Durham Tech Sakai Tool List]].
This tool was custom-designed by our vendor (Longsight). Similar to Blackboard's "Performance Dashboard," it provides a quick look at students' activity in the course (when they first/last logged in, total time spent in the course site, etc). If you enable this tool, a User Activity button is added to your course menu, which you can hide from students if you want (under Site Info > Page Order). If you leave it visible to students, they can click it to see their own stats only. Once you have some student activity to view, I think you'll see that this is a great tool! Please note that these stats are updated only once per day.  
 
  
===Sign-up===
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To see a list of Sakai tools and add them to your courses:
This tool allows a way for students to sign up for events, such as office hours, class presentations, or meetings. Instructors can use the tool to create a set of time slots, then students can sign up for the one they want. It's a powerful, potentially useful tool that we haven't had time to learn yet, but I wanted to let you know it was available. If you want to learn more, check out this blog post from Duke: http://tinyurl.com/sakai-signup
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# Go to the Site Info tool and click on Edit Tools (one of the links at the top of the Site Info tool).
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# Add tools by clicking on the check boxes beside the tool names.
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# Click Save to see a summary of changes <b><font color=red>(in red)</font color=red></b> then click Finish to add the tools to your course menu.

Latest revision as of 08:37, 7 May 2013

Add Tools to your Sakai Courses (Site Info tool / Edit Tools)

Sakai has a lot of tools that you can add to and use in your courses! Your Sakai courses contain a set of default tools: Home, Announcements, Syllabus, Email, Email Archive, Resources, Schedule, Gradebook, Statistics, Site Info, Roster, and Help. If you’d like to try out some of the other Sakai tools, you must turn them on.

To see a list of Sakai tools and add them to your courses:

  1. Go to the Site Info tool and click on Edit Tools (one of the links at the top of the Site Info tool).
  2. Add tools by clicking on the check boxes beside the tool names.
  3. Click Save to see a summary of changes (in red) then click Finish to add the tools to your course menu.