1. SAKAI
February 2005

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

3. 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

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

5. 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

6. 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

7. SAKAI >>> Going Forward
Oct – Dec 04 : Sakai CLE ver 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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.
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.

11. 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 lists.

12. 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

13. SAKAI Test Installation