Sakai: Course Content Tools

Course Content Tools

Blogs

• Blogs(University of Florida)

Home page

To add your instructor and/or course information to your course site, after you’ve logged onto Sakai, you’ll edit the Site Information area:

1. Click on the tool named Site Info on the left-hand course menu.
2. Click on Edit Site Information (the first link at the top of the Site Info tool).
3. Go to the Description box and use the text editor to enter and format your instructor and/or course info.
4. When done adding your instructor/course information, click Continue, then Finish (or your changes won’t be saved).

To see what your course home page looks like, click on the Home button on the course menu.

TIP: To get ideas, you can view examples of Home Pages from various courses.

Images

• Image Tips
• Where can you find images you can easily add to your classes (without getting into trouble)? (Durham Tech Instructional Technologies Blog)
• Where Can we Find Images we can use in Sakai? (Durham Tech Instructional Technologies Blog)

Lessons

Lessons is a flexible tool for adding content to your Sakai site.

• If the content you want to share with students is mostly in the form of files or documents -- like PowerPoints, Word docs, PDFs, and so on -- then the Resources tool may be all you need.
• But if you want something a bit fancier -- if you want to create pages with text, graphics, videos, and links to web sites, files or assignments -- then you will want to use the Lessons tool.
• With the Lessons tool you can create subpages to organize your content. For example, many instructors create a subpage for each week of the course, so students can find the week's materials and assignments all together in one place.

Basics

• Sakai Lessons Workshop Handout | Lessons Intro video
• What are Student Pages? Are they for Student Projects? (Durham Tech Instructional Technologies Blog)
• How to find and add free images to Lessons (February, 2014)
• Lessons (Lesson Builder) (Rutgers)
• Lessons videos (October, 2013)
• Soft Chalk: Publishing SoftChalk Lessons in Sakai

Math/Science Editor(WIRIS)

• Math/Science Editor in Sakai

Podcasts

• Note: After adding the Podcasts tool:
  • The first time you add and upload a podcast (mp3 file), a folder titled "Podcasts" will be created in the Resources tool.
  • As a result, every podcast added/uploaded to the Podcasts tool, will automatically be added to the Resources Podcasts folder.
  • Therefore, podcasts added to the Sakai course site can be accessed via both the Podcasts tool and the Resources tool.
• Podcasts - Upload your Podcasts (Rutgers)

Polls

• Polls(University of Florida)

Resources

• Sakai Resources Handout
• How to add files and folders in Resources (video)
• Upload a file into Resources (Duke)
• Sakai Resources Video (
• Create a folder video (UNC)
• Add a file video (UNC)
• Copy a file video (UNC)
• Can I copy files to other sites? (Duke)
• Add a link to an existing Web Site to Resources (Duke)
• Why Can't Students see your Sakai files/images? (Durham Tech Instructional Technologies Blog)

RSS Feeds

• RSS Feeds (University of Florida)

Site Info

• How do I update my Home page with my instructor and/or course information? See Home page above.
• How do I add/edit what tools are available? (Duke)
• How can I customize my course menu?(Duke)
• Publish your course site slideshow (UNC)
• Advanced Menu Divider Trick with Site Info-Page Order video (UNC)

Softchalk

• Soft Chalk: Publishing SoftChalk Lessons in Sakai

Syllabus

• Sakai Syllabus handout
• Add a Syllabus video (UNC)

Text Editor

• Sakai Text Editor
  • Image Tips
  • Where can you find images you can easily add to your classes (without getting into trouble)?
  • Where Can we Find Images we can use in Sakai? (Durham Tech Instructional Technologies Blog)
• Add a Voki to your Sakai Home page Updated 11/22/13: Fix for Mozilla Firefox web browser

Videos

• Lessons overview video
  • Display a YouTube video using Add Multimedia in Lessons (pages 10 - 11)
  • Display a Vimeo video using Add Text in Lessons Updated 2/3/14: Fix for web browser security issue

Voki

• Add a Voki to your Sakai Home page Updated 11/22/13: Fix for Mozilla Firefox web browser

Web Content

• Sakai Web Content handout

Wiki

• Sakai Wiki videos from UNC:
  • Setup Your Wiki in Sakai (from UNC TL Interactive)
  • Sakai Tools - Wiki Tool Overview (from UNC School of Medicine)