SAKAI DEMONSTRATION
Hello everyone. This is a demonstration of SAKAI and what it is going to look like, how we are going to be able to use it, what your courses are going to look like to get you ready for when we move into the system this semester. Then you first login which you will be doing through the portal you will login through the class login button and it will take you to a screen very similar to this. You will be receiving your user ID and passwords in your email relatively soon so make sure you do that. You will type in your user ID and your password and you will login and you will be taken to a screen very similar to this. Now you will always end up first off in “My Workspace” and this will give you pretty much an overview of all the different things you have in here. I am not going to spend too much time on this. I am just showing you roughly the different things you see here. What you will want to do is to find your course. What I am going to do is walk you through the important parts of your courses and what you need to be able to understand and how you are going to be doing those.
For right now we are just going to show the AHRC-5301 otherwise known as the Foundation’s course. Your courses will be listed up here. If you do not see your course up here it is probably going to be listed here under my active sites and this will list all the courses that you have access to. For right now we are just going to go into here. What I am going to do is change over to the student view so this is exactly what you will be seeing.
I will show you a few things of what you are going to be seeing on here. Over here to the left this is going to be the menu section. This will give you all the information you need to know in order to be able to navigate through the course. The order of these will be changing as time goes on but just wanted to show you that this is where you will be going at all times. Let me scroll down a bit so you will see a little bit more.
This site information display at first will have the expectation for students, the different links they need to go and look at, things along those lines. However keep in mind as time progress different professors may add different things in there. You will also see over here is your calendar that will have important information on there. As you see January 17 is the first day of classes. For this course we have a deadline, a paper topic due on the 3rd. These when you see it within the course are going to be setup strictly for the courses themselves, not for all your courses, just for this particular course. Your announcements will be viewed right up here.
Alright let’s start and just show you running through some different areas. You can click here under syllabus and that will bring up the syllabus for this course. Again I because I have this shrunk down I am not able to show you all of it, it is very condensed. But you will see you will get your syllabi and you will be able to go through and see your entire syllabus. You will also notice that everything here is done in web format. However you can always go right here to this little button and you can view a printable version. So anything you are seeing here hopefully you should be able to print it out to if you prefer to have a hard copy. Now I would like to add in here that most of our stuff that we are seeing here will be viewable on mobile devices such as the IPOD, IPAD, and various smart phones. But that gives you a rough idea of what you are looking at and you will be able to look at your whole syllabi under here. Not messing with schedules as usually used by the professors. Announcements again if you want to see what announcements there are you can come in here and view the different announcements. Keep in mind they are here popping up on the front page of the course. However you can always go to the announcements and see more.
Forums are exactly what we have used in the past in terms of discussion boards. As you will see based on this course I have it setup where I have these first forums are the announcements, any other course announcements I am making, questions you might have for me, and a class meeting place for communication with other students.
As the semester goes on you will then see another section coming up in this course having a weekly discussion questions. Please keep in mind however that different courses are going to be set up differently. What you are going to see in these sections may not be the same from course to course but everything should still be located in the same areas.
Resources is not something students will be using however you will be using modules. This is where things are going to change greatly from students who have already been in the program that were using the web CT program moving over to SAKAI. At this point modules are where all your course materials are going to be located. Now keep in mind we are probably going to be moving to a more advanced system later on maybe later in the semester possibly summer semester. But for right now I want everyone to be able to see how the modules are run. So the student clicks on modules. You will see right now I only have the first week of January up right now. Again different professors are going to be setting this up differently. I set mine up as a module week by week. Other professors will probably have it set up differently but just to show you how this works. If you click on week one what it will do is take you to a new page and it is basically telling you here what you need to accomplish this week. The content section of this module is as follows. So I can go to my week one overview and here you will see the overview showing you what is happening within the course. What you are supposed to be doing during this week. Now you can just back space, go back to modules or you can hit next. Next will bring us to the lecture materials. The instructions say the lecture materials for this week can be found underneath under modules page or you can proceed by hitting next above. Okay next or I can go back to modules. Click on that and it will bring be back to the main module page. Here will be my first thing under lecture material. This is my introduction to the course lecture. If I click on this one which I am not going to do right now it will open the lecture in another window. That is done so that you do not have to keep clicking back and forth. But you see I also have the transcript here and my course is done as a doc format that you can download and print out. You will also see I have my introduction to course lecture outline. This is an outline of that lecture that I was just telling you about. Remember you can always hit these two little arrows here and go right back to the main modules page. Then I have my Rehabilitation Counseling Profession lecture, the transcript, and the outline. For those of you who have been in the program before you know we have what is known as portable audio transcripts. These are what we call PATS. These PATS are downloadable MP3 files that you can then play on your different MP3 players. Again you would click here and that would take you where you would actually go to download these things. As I said you are not able to see everything here right now simply because of the way I have it condensed to make it work in this actual video.
I have added a grading rubric here as well so students know how I am going to be grading my papers. As you can see it is a pretty straightforward, easy to use format here. What you really need to know is that when you are wanting to find information about your courses and what you are having to do during those weeks, and what the different lectures and everything is instead of having to miss icons here on the front page we are going to have them all contained for the time being under modules.
Moving down the list you will also see we have the assignments. Now at this point I have no assignments set up for the students in this first week but assignments will come up and they will be right here and it will be just like the assignment drop box in web CT where you will be able to click on it, submit your assignments, attach, things like that.
We also have the grade book and right now the only thing we have in there for grades are participation. But this will be where the students can go through and see exactly what their grades are up to date.
Testing quizzes also this is where you will be going to find and we have none set up at the moment but this is where you will find your different quizzes. You will click on those and take them online like you normally have.
The final big thing to remember in this particular demonstration as I say you will get in there you will play around a little bit with it but this is more just for you to see it and understand it, is messages. In the past we used, it was called emails. This is set up very similar to everything else we have had. It is now known as messages. When we talk you might see a professor once in a while talk about the internal course email and what they are talking about is messages. Clicking on that you will see it runs very simple. It is just like an email drop box. If you want to compose a message you will just click right there. You will then be able to choose who you want to send it to. It will list all the people that are involved in the course and you can like do holding down control just specific people or you can hold and drag and click lots of people. However you want to do it. You then put the title right in here under subject. Type the message you wish to have and then send and that will then send the email or message to the individual. Please keep in mind this is going to be an internal messaging service only and this is basically showing you how you will send those. Having said all that this is roughly a quick overview just to give you an idea of what you are going to be seeing with SAKAI. The nice thing is at any time you can switch to another course. So say along with my course you are taking another course. You can then just quickly switch to that one and again jump in and you will see everything is going to be roughly the same. As I said location wise everything should be the same between all courses. In terms of how those modules or forums are set up that is going to be up to the professor so you will see some differences here and there.
Hopefully this has been helpful to you and as always please remember if you have any questions please try to contact your professors, myself, Curt in IT, any of those areas.
Thank you and I look forward to this semester.