Sakai: Communication Tools

Communication Tools

Announcements

• Announcements handout (pdf)

Chat Room

• Chat Room (Rutgers)

Email

• Email Handout (pdf)
• Email Archive Handout (pdf)
• Email and Email Archive Video (video)

Forums

• Spring 2014 Forums/Topic handout (including Forum/Topic grading) (pdf)
• How to Set up Discussion Forums (video)
• How to Grade Discussion Posts (video)
• How do I stop the flood of emails (after posting in a Forum/Topic)?
• Midnight Assignments: How do you set the date and time? (Pepperdine University)
• Provide students with Feedback in a Forum/Topic (UNC-CH)

Best Practices for Forums (Feb 2014)

• TLC Presentation: Best Practices for Forums (pdf)
• Discussion Forum Questions Used by Durham Tech Instructors (pdf)
• Sample Rubric for Grading Forums (pdf)
• Generating and Facilitating Engaging and Effective Online Discussions (University of Oregon)
• More Resources for Forums

Groups

• Working with Sakai groups (pdf)

Meetings (BigBlueButton)

• Meetings

Roster tool

• Roster (DTCC)

Schedule (Calendar) tool

• Using the Schedule Tool (Duke)
• Schedule (Rutgers)

Sign-up tool

• Sign-up (Rutgers)