EDCOMM
Mon - Fri
8:00am-4:30pm
Location:
BICC, 1st Floor
Room 113
Phone:
(503) 494-7722
Email:
edcomm1@ohsu.edu
Sakai Tutorials
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Sakai offers a wide array of web-based teaching and collaboration tools to OHSU faculty and students. These tutorials provide step-by-step instructions to support you in developing proficiency using the most popular tools.
Sakai Basics [return to top]
Before you begin using Sakai, review these technical tips for a basic explanation of Sakai's layout, best practices and information about setting up your first course site.
Although every site and tool in Sakai serves a different purpose and allows you to perform different activities, some operations that you perform are the same in all sites and in most or all tools, especially the Resources tool.
- Loggin In to Your Course (video demonstration) new
- Using the Rich Text Editor
- Setting Email Notification Options
- Opening or Downloading an Attachment or Other Document
- Uploading Documents or Files (text or video demonstration)
- Adding Resource Folders (video demonstration)
- Moving Files in the Resources Folder (video demonstration)
- Adding Resource URLs (video demonstration)
- Saving an Attachment or Document to Your Computer
- Attaching a URL or Web Site as an Attachment (video demonstration)
- Using the Search Tool
- Adding and Deleting Tools from your Course (instructors only video demonstration) new
My Workspace is a private workspace for each user. When you log in, My Workspacedisplays the Message of the Day (information from the system administrator) and the "synoptic" calendar, a collection of all calendar entries from each course or project site's calendar.
- My Workspace Overview (text or video demonstration) new
- Account Details (video demonstration)
- Setting Up Your Profile (text and video demonstration)
- Changing Your Password (video demonstration)
- Notification Preferences (video demonstration)
- Accessing Resources (video demonstration)
The Announcements tool is an online bulletin board, allowing instructors to post upcoming events and due dates on a site's homepage.
- Accessing Course Announcements (video demonstration) new
- Creating Announcements (instructors only)
- Setting Announcement Permission (instructors only)
- Managing Postings in the Announcements Tool (instructors only video demonstration) new
The Calendar tool allows instructors and site organizers to post information about a site’s activities in calendar format. Many instructors also use the tool to post readings for each class on the day they are due. Research, group, and department projects often use Calendar to post group deadlines.
- Using the Course Calendar (video demonstration) new
- Changing Calendar Views
- Adding an Event to a Calendar
- Changing Calendar Permissions
The News tool allows you to view information from a news source, blog, events listing, or other site that updates its content frequently.
The Mailtool allows you to send email messages to any students, groups, or instructors in your course.
- Using the Mailtool (video demonstration) new
If you are an instructor or site organizer, the Forums tool allows you to create any number of online discussion forums for your course or project sites. As a student or project participant, the Forums tool is a place to post content and engage in asynchronous dialog with other site members.
- Reading Forum Messages (video demonstration)
- Posting Forum Messages (video demonstration)
- Responding to Forum Messages (video demonstration)
- Creating a Discussion Forum (instructor only video demonstration) new
- Creating Discussion Groups for a Forum
The Lessons feature allows a user to prepare sequential presentations and lectures.. The following Technical Tips describe the uses of the Lessons tool, how to set up lesson modules and sections, and advanced applications of this tool.
- Accessing Lesson Modules (video demonstration)
- Viewing Attachments (video demonstration)
The Assignment tool enables an instructor to post, grade, and return assignments to students. It also allows students to submit their completed assignments. Assignments are private -- student submissions are visible to instructors but not to other participants of a course site..
- Viewing Assignments (video demonstration)
- Submitting an Assignment (video demonstration)
- Creating an Assignment (instructor only video demonstration) new
The Tests and Quizzes tool is where students can take graded and ungraded exams.
- Taking an Online Test or Quiz (video demonstration) new
The Gradebook feature allows a user to view grades for a course. You can only see grades your instructor has chosen to display. These grades may include the cumulative score for a course, the course grade, and/or the grade for each assignment in the course.
- Viewing Gradebook (video demonstration)
- Creating an Entry in your Gradebook (instructor only video demonstration) new
- Setting up and Managing your Gradebook (instructor only) new
The Syllabus tool allows you to create a course syllabus with Sakai's text editor or you can also redirect this space to a pre-existing PDF or HTML page.