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* 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.
 
* 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: '''[https://sakai.screenstepslive.com/s/sakai_help/m/81161/l/954491-how-do-i-allow-students-to-add-content-to-lessons How to allow students to add content to Lessons]'''
 
** Follow these steps to add the Student Content feature to your Lessons area: '''[https://sakai.screenstepslive.com/s/sakai_help/m/81161/l/954491-how-do-i-allow-students-to-add-content-to-lessons How to allow students to add content to Lessons]'''
** After enabling the feature, you can share with this handout with your students '''[[Media: For_Students-_How_to_Work_with_Student_Pages_Handout.pdf|For Students: How to work with Student Pages (PDF)]]''' with step-by-step instructions on how to add content to student pages.
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** After adding the feature, share this handout with your students '''[[Media: For_Students-_How_to_Work_with_Student_Pages_Handout.pdf|For Students: How to work with Student Pages (PDF)]]''' with step-by-step instructions on how to add content to student pages.
 
* Here's some of the capabilities of Student Pages:
 
* Here's some of the capabilities of Student Pages:
 
** Comments can be added to each student page
 
** Comments can be added to each student page
 
** You can grade student pages and/or comments
 
** You can grade student pages and/or comments
 
** Peer review rubrics are available; but you must inform students of peer review deadlines
 
** Peer review rubrics are available; but you must inform students of peer review deadlines

Revision as of 11:28, 20 August 2020

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 braces (not parens or brackets) around one of three specific words, to display either the student's first name (firstname), last name (lastname), or full name (fullname), based on how their name appears on the Sakai Roster:

In Lessons Editor, display personalization keywords and how displayed in Lessons to the student

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).

Comments

Instructors can allow students to add comments to a Lessons page. The comments can be graded.

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.
  • Here's some of the capabilities of Student Pages:
    • 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