Intermediate Sakai Resources

Sakai Intermediate Online Workshop Materials

This page contains links to the Sakai 11 Intermediate Online Workshop videos, activity handouts (Step-by-Step instructions), and best practices for each Sakai Tool covered in the workshop.

Gradebook

With Sakai's Gradebook tool, instructors can add items to the Gradebook, categorize and organize Gradebook items, enter students' grades, distribute students' grades, provide students with feedback on assignments, drop the lowest grade in a grading category, and automatically calculate course grades.

Basics

• How to Set Up Gradebook: Video | Handout
• How to Add Gradebook Items and Enter Grades: Video | Handout
• How to View Grades: Video Handout (Sakai Community Instructions)
• How to Calculate Final Grades:

More Info

• Visit our Gradebook resource page for even more information on using the Gradebook tool.

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Forums

The Forums tool in Sakai allows you to have online class discussions. Discussions are asynchronous, which means participants do not have to be online at the same time.

Forums are one of the most popular tools in online and hybrid courses and can be used in traditional courses as well. Forums can provide opportunities for in-depth student reflection, application of concepts, and peer learning. Forums also add a critical element of student-to-student interaction to online instruction.

Basics

• Using Forums as a Student: How to Post in Sakai Forums (video)
• How to Set Up Forum Topics: Video | Handout
• How to Grade Students' Forum Posts: Video | Handout

Best Practices for Forums

• Best Practices for Forums - Our best advice, all on one page
• Forum Questions Used by Durham Tech Instructors
• Forum Guidelines and Grading

More Info

• Visit our Forums resource page for even more information on using the Forums tool.

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Tests & Quizzes

With the Tests & Quizzes tool, you can create online tests, practice exercises, surveys, and other forms of assessment. Question types can include multiple choice, fill in the blank, matching, essay, and more.
Below are detailed instructions for creating online assessments, publishing them so students can take them, grading them, and best practices.

Basics

• Submitting Tests as a Student: Taking a Test in Sakai
• How to Create an Online Test or Quiz: Video | Step-by-step instructions
• How to Publish a Test or Quiz: Video | Step-by-step instructions
• How to Grade Online Tests and Quizzes: Video | Step-by-step instructions

Best Practices for Testing in Online and Hybrid Courses

• Best Practices for Online Testing (pdf)
• Tips to Reduce Technical Problems and Deter Cheating (pdf)

More Info/Advanced Topics

• Please review the Sakai Instructor Resources Test & Quizzes area for more Test & Quizzes information and advanced topics.

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Assignments

The Assignments tool provides the following for instructors and students:

• Instructors can easily collect student papers or files (such as documents and pdf's)
• Instructors can use the Turnitin feature to check student submissions for plagiarism
• Instructors can grade submitted student papers and files online
• Students can see their Assignment grade and instructor feedback online, at anytime

Basics

• How to Submit an Assignment as a Student: How to Submit a File Using Assignments
• How to Create an Assignment in Sakai: Video | Handout
  • Both the video and Handout contain information on how to set up the Turnitin feature, the plagiarism checker
• How to Grade an Assignment in Sakai: Video

Feedback & Turnitin

• Please review the Instructor Resources Assignments area for information about giving Feedback and using the Turnitin (plagiarism checker) feature in Assignments.

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