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In the Sakai Text Editor you can add '''double sets of''' '''{braces}''' (not brackets) around '''three specific words''', to display either the student's first name, last name, or full name, based on how their name appears on the Sakai Roster:
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In the Sakai Text Editor you can add '''double sets of''' '''{{braces}}''' (not brackets) around '''three specific words''', to display either the student's first name, last name, or full name, based on how their name appears on the Sakai Roster:
 
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Revision as of 16:58, 8 May 2019

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.)

Getting Started

What content should you add to Lessons? how can you organize it?

Basics

  • Sakai 19 User Guide: Lessons
  • Intro to Lessons (Create Subpages/Add Text and Links): Video | Handout

Intermediate

Best Practices for Using Sakai's Lessons and Course Design

Add section breaks and color to sections

Add color to Lessons content areas, add horizontal section breaks, add content above and below your present content

Working with Sections and Columns

Interactive Features

Personalize Text to Display a Student's Name

In the Sakai Text Editor you can add double sets of Template:Braces (not brackets) around three specific words, to display either the student's first name, last name, or full name, based on how their name appears on the Sakai Roster:

  • firstname
  • lastname
  • fullname

Checklist

With the new Checklist feature, instructors can add a "to-do" list to any Lessons page, which helps students stay on track and allows instructors to view their progress.

Question

Instructors can add a Multiple Choice or Short Answer question directly to a Lessons Page. The questions can be graded (correct answer specified) or used for polling (no correct answer specified).

Student Content (aka Student Pages)

The Student Content feature in Lessons is great for student projects.

  • If you enable this feature, students (or groups) will be able to create their own pages in Lessons, containing text, web links, pictures, videos, and links to documents.
  • Follow these steps to add the Student Content feature to your Lessons area: How to allow students to add content to Lessons
  • Here's some of the capabilities of Student Pages:
    • Students can work on their individual student page, or groups can work together on a student page
    • Comments can be added to each student page
    • You can grade student pages and/or comments
    • Peer review rubrics are available; but you must inform students of peer review deadlines
      • A peer review rubric is available for each page or you can add your own peer review rubric
      • Students can self-grade or grade peers or groups
  • Here's a handout you can share with your students For Students: How to work with Student Pages (PDF) with step-by-step instructions on how to add the following to their Student Pages:
    • Add your Student Page and display a video
    • Add links to web pages and/or documents
    • Reorder items on your Student Page
    • Find and display appropriate images