[Building Sakai] I need help with course site creation

[Neal Caidin]

Hi Ese,

You may also want to ask sakai-user at collab.sakaiproject.org, which is for users of Sakai, and production at collab.sakaiproject.org, which is primarily for system administrators and technical support staff. The sakai-dev list is targeted at software developers.

In the U.S.A. a typical course listing might be something like 

Subject: Biology
Course: 100
Section: 01

Biology often represents a discipline or department. 100 would represent a particular topic that is being taught within the discipline,  perhaps Cell Biology. And section would represent one specific class that is teaching Cell Biology. Within a semester the same course may be offered more than once, perhaps taught by different instructors, or the same instructor but at different days and times during the week. This is done to accommodate a large demand for the course by students. So you could have a section 01, a section 02, a section 03 and so on. Each of those sections is really the same course with essentially the same syllabus and desired scope of what will be learned.

There may be other ways that these fields can be used to represent class offerings, this is just one with which I am familiar.

I hope that helps.

Cheers,

Neal Caidin

Sakai CLE Community Coordinator
nealcaidin at sakaifoundation.org
Skype: nealkdin
AIM: ncaidin at aol.com





On Mar 27, 2013, at 5:40 AM, Ese Egerega <ese at cis.com.ng> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I am new with Sakai and I need help with course site creation. Not sure what the right combination of Course, Subject and Section should be.
> 
> We offer 4 courses at my institution (Software Engineering, Network Security, Computer Studies, and Business) and we have an average of 10 subjects per course per semester. In a particular semester for example, a student studying Software Engineering will take an average of 10 subjects (i.e. Programming methods, Algebra, HTML, etc). I am thinking that the right combination should be:
> Course: 1
> Subject: 10
> Section: Not sure.
> Is this correct? Is there a documentation on course site creation? Please advice.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ese
> 
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