Sakai: Lessons
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Lessons
Lessons is a flexible tool for adding content to your Sakai site.
- With the Lessons tool, you can share all kinds of content with students, including web links, documents, videos, and links to assignments, tests/quizzes, and forums.
- You can also create weekly subpages to organize your content, so students can find the week's materials and assignments all together in one place.
If you're teaching an online or hybrid course, it's important to use the Lessons tool to organize the content for each week of the course. (The Lessons tool can be useful for face-to-face courses as well.)
Basics
- Sakai Lessons Basics: Create Subpages/Add Text and Links Video | Handout
- Getting Started with the Lessons Tool (Duke University) Web page | Video
- Sakai User Guide
Working with Sections and Columns
How do I create multiple sections on a Lessons page? How do I create two columns on a Lessons page? How do I merge columns and sections to one block?
Checklist feature
- Create "to-do" lists for students to check off tasks as they complete them. Instructors can view the status of students’ checklists to track their progress.
- To learn how to use checklists, see UNC's how-to page and video
- Sakai Lessons Basics: Create Subpages/Add Text Video | Handout
- Build a Well-Designed Subpage Video | Handout
- Find out how to add Headings, Due Dates, Textbook info to your subpage plus
- Add links to documents and web sites; Display YouTube videos and
- Add links to Tests & Quizzes, Forums/Topics, and Assignments.
- How to Organize Lessons and your Course video | Handout
- Lessons (Lesson Builder) (Rutgers)
Lessons and Course Design Tips
In Lessons: Display Videos, Images, and Softchalks
- Display a YouTube video using Add Multimedia in Lessons (or link to a video)
- Display videos in Lessons (October, 2013)
- How to find and add free images to Lessons (February, 2014)
- Where can you find images you can easily add to your classes (without getting into trouble)? (Durham Tech Instructional Technologies Blog)
- Soft Chalk: Publishing SoftChalk Lessons in Sakai
Lessons Student Projects (Student Pages)
- What are Student Pages? Are they for Student Projects? (Durham Tech Instructional Technologies Blog)
- For Instructors: How to Set up Student Pages in Sakai Handout
This handout provides the steps to add Lessons to your course, add Student Pages to Lessons, and optionally, allow students (and instructors) to comment on Student Pages. The handout also reviews how to view student work and add your comments. Note: Both instructor and student comments are visible to all students, as are the student pages.
The handout provides students with step-by-step instructions for how to create your Student Page (and rename it), find and display a YouTube video, create and display a link to a web page, add text and headings to your Student Page, reorder items on your Student Page, find and display an image effectively, and add a link to a document.
