[Using Sakai] for learning material
Marshall Feldman
marsh at uri.edu
Tue Nov 2 06:23:56 PDT 2010
Regimantas,
I generally keep learning material on a regular web server and only use
Sakai as a front end. Several considerations led me to this.
When Sakai tools are copied between course sites, their links do not
update to the corresponding tool's URL on the new site. For instance, if
you have a lesson with a link to the testing tool, tools like Melete
Modules will still point to the old site's tool. For regular web pages,
I've written a jQuery plugin that uses a single table for each course
site and automatically updates links on web pages to the addresses in
the table (e.g. <a href="$TESTS"> has the current site's URL for $TESTS
substituted). I couldn't figure out any way to do this with Sakai's
built-in tools without having access to and modifying Sakai's source code.
Also, when files stored on our Sakai server are updated, Sakai seems to
generate a new URL. So even just keeping the web pages on Sakai and
using my plugin doesn't work. I will, however, be moving readings and
other things that do not change to a publicly accessible site on the
Sakai server. With the current arrangement, I find it much easier, for
example, to make a mid-semester change to the syllabus and not have to
go through all my learning pages, track down, and change all references
to the syllabus,
One big advantage of this approach is that you are not restricted to
Sakai's built-in tools for e-learning. For instance, you can use
interactive flash, mind maps, or whatever. One disadvantage is that you
don't have some of the integration that Sakai provides. But I find
integration among Sakai's tools is not very strong (e.g., when you send
an email to a student from the testing tool, Sakai uses regular email
rather than its own email tool), and ordinary web pages with my jQuery
plugin actually provide better integration in many instances.
I haven't released the plugin publicly because is not yet documented,
but it is easy to use and I could send you a link.
Marsh Feldman
On 11/2/10 [Nov 2, 10] 8:13 AM,
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> Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2010 11:47:47 +0200
> From: Regimantas Maciulskis<regimantas.maciulskis at gmail.com>
> Subject: [Using Sakai] for learning material
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> Hello,
> I would like to know where to put learning material in Sakai? In
> moodle I used text page. What tools in Sakai is to put learning
> material? I know that i can put docs in resources, but it is not true
> e-learning.
> Thank you very much.
> Regimantas
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