SAKAI February 2005

What is SAKAI? Sakai ≠ Course Management System Sakai = Collaboration & Learning Environment

Four Main Colleges Michigan CHEF Framework CourseTools WorkTools Indiana Navigo Assessment Eden Workflow Oncourse Now over 45 other universities have joined in an international effort to develop the next generation of software infrastructure and tools to support research and teaching. MIT Stellar Stanford CourseWork Assessment

“ It is a hard job to build and maintain common ground, even among just 4-6 schools “

SAKAI: Progress so far Sep 03: University of Michigan, Indiana University, MIT and Stanford University decide to go ahead Dec 03: Mellon grants $2.4M ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jan 04: Sakai project kicks off Feb 04: SEPP launched with $300K grant from Hewlett May 04: Foothill-De Anza Community College District awarded $ 600K by Hewlett to adopt and extend Sakai Jun 04: Sakai CLE 1.0 Beta released to SEPP partners during first SEPP conference at Denver Jul 04: SEPP members join Sakai Board Jul 04: Sakai CLE 1.0 RC1 released to public Aug 04: Sakai CLE 1.0 RC2 released Sep 04: SEPP members number 43 Oct 04: Sakai 1.0 released and available at Collab.sakaiproject.org

SAKAI 1.0 This is the ‘run it now out of the box’ version Sakai 1.0 is installable/runable out of the box Adds the following capabilities: Generic Worksite Setup Create Account button Ability to allow users to create an account, rather than having an Admin create all accounts or relying on an external account provider MySql support (in addition to Oracle) Install configuration process Documentation Installation, configuration, admin This is the ‘run it now out of the box’ version

SAKAI >>> Going Forward Oct – Dec 04 : Sakai CLE ver 1.0.0 fine tuning Jan 05 : Sakai CLE ver 1.5 released May 05 : Sakai CLE ver 2.0 released Aug – Dec 05 : Deployment and implementation at the Sakai core institutions Jan 06 : Sakai project complete

SAKAI 1.5 – January 05 Pilot - Assessment (Samigo) and Gradebook Better organization, searching, sorting of sites by term, site type (course vs project) Public setting on a site – non-authenticated users can browse site public content Improved reporting on users, server/usage/site statistics for admins and support Improved ability to assume role of particular user and/or admin levels for support Hierarchical organization of sites – URL is more friendly, indicates the context of the site (year, term, subject) Groups – ability to specify groups of users in a site Help available on every tool Enforced copyright control when reading/downloading Resources Enhanced My Profile – added information about the user, editable by the user Ability to rename a user account and maintain ownership of content Syllabus construction tool Whisper function in Chat

SAKAI 2.0 – May 05 Continued Framework development Documentation updated to reflect current framework Integrated Assessment (Samigo) Integrated Grade book TPP/Development kit Tool conformity to Style Guide OSID implementations – list growing

SAKAI Final Product Course Management Capabilities Sites for individual course offerings Roster control with input from SIS Sub-groups for study, projects, discussion, etc. Drop box for assignments Course content, access control. Email lists per class. Based on best-in-class features from CTools, OnCourse, Stellar, and CourseWorks Assessment Broad support for tests, quizzes, problem sets. Based on IMS QTI 1.0. Item banks for random test generation. Rubrics for scoring.

SAKAI Final Product Continued… Gradebook Student, group, class data. Curving, weighting, adjustments, editing. Graphs and statistics. Collaboration Support for on-line research and work groups. Forum, threaded discussions, chat. Announcements, calendar. Resource management, document control. Web content references. Archived email lists.

SAKAI Final Product Continued… Enterprise Integration Student information systems Registration systems Digital Libraries Repositories Single sign on and authentication Remote authorization Scalability and Performance Small and larger databases Clustering, load balancing Caching

SAKAI Test Installation http://smcweb2.smccd.net:8080/portal?site=1107797887780-72