[Building Sakai] I need help with course site creation

[Zhen Qian]

Hi, Ese:

A good place to start with Sakai CourseManagement API integration is this
wiki page:
https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/SAKDEV/Course+Management+Integration

The default implementation of CourseManagement service is at:
https://source.sakaiproject.org/svn/edu-services/trunk/cm-service/cm-impl

The "subject, course, section" are default labels to represent course
offering hierarchies, as Neal mentioned above. You can customize the
labels. Please take a look at the default implementation of
SectionFieldProvider API:

https://source.sakaiproject.org/svn/site-manage/trunk/site-manage-impl/impl/src/java/org/sakaiproject/sitemanage/impl/SectionFieldProviderImpl.java

Thanks,

- Zhen




On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 8:37 AM, Neal Caidin <nealcaidin at sakaifoundation.org
> wrote:

> 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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