Tools and Tips for Teaching Online

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Sakai

Your Sakai site is your "hub" for all class activities.

Sakai Training

  • Instructors must complete the Intro to Sakai online workshop before they can get access to their Sakai sites.
  • Intermediate Sakai - All instructors who do not have online teaching experience should register for and complete this workshop!
  • Both workshops are online and self-paced. For more details see Sakai Training.
  • TO REGISTER: Visit training.durhamtech.edu

Sakai Support and Self-Help

Training for online instruction

Sakai contains many tools to support online instruction, including discussion forums, online tests/quizzes, assignment submission tool, gradebook, and a “Lessons” tool for organizing and presenting content.

The Intermediate Sakai online workshop covers all of these tools as well as best practices for using them in online instruction.

All instructors without online teaching experience should register for Intermediate Sakai at training.durhamtech.edu.

Convert PowerPoint lectures to videos

PowerPoint contains tools for adding voice narrations to your slides. You can then export your narrated PowerPoint to a video and upload it to Sakai using a special tool in Sakai called Warpwire.

For instructions, see:
Narrating PowerPoints & Sharing Them on Warpwire (PDF)

Hold an online meeting (webinar) with your class

Meetings (BigBlueButton) is a webinar tool available in Sakai that allows instructors to hold live, online meetings with students.

  • You can display presentations, use a white board, use audio and/or a webcam, chat with your students, share your desktop, record the meeting, and more.
  • Meetings is a synchronous tool, which means users have to be online at the same time to interact. You can record your Meetings, and students can view the recordings in Sakai.

For details and handouts, visit:
Sakai Meetings (BigBlueButton)

Create videos, audio recordings, and screencasts

Sakai contains a tool called Warpwire for creating videos or audio recordings and sharing them with students. With Warpwire, instructors can…

  • use a webcam to record a video of themselves talking
  • create an audio-only recording
  • record a “screencast” demonstrating something on their computer screen
  • record a video on a phone or tablet and share with students in Sakai

For details and step-by-step handouts, visit:
go.durhamtech.edu/warpwire

Support resources

For students

Contact Sakai Support - lists support options available, including how to contact the 24/7 Sakai Help Desk.

Sakai Help for Students has videos and FAQs to help students log in, post in a forum, take an online test, submit an assignment, and more.

For instructors

Sakai Resources for Instructors includes pretty much everything there is to know about Sakai and has links to detailed help for every tool in Sakai.

Email sakaihelp@durhamtech.edu with questions or problems.

  • BE SPECIFIC. Tell us your course & section number, the name of the specific test/quiz/forum/assignment, and the name of a specific student affected (if applicable).

More tips and resources

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