[Using Sakai] SAKAI as central repository for marks?

[Jaeques Koeman]

Hi Fatima,

We work for a Higher Education institution in the Netherlands that is using
Sakai and a Student Information System. We did some customizations so that
all exams can be graded within Sakai and automatically transferred to the
SIS after review. Here is a description of how it works, hopefully it will
give you inspiration:

   - We used the Sakai Course Management Service to synchronize both the
   curriculum and student enrollments between Sakai and SIS. For each course,
   a Sakai course site is created and populated with one or more class
   sections.
   - On each course site, a custom Sakai gradebook is used to enter marks
   and/or course grades (exams). After grading, marks are transferred to the
   grade administration department
   - A workflow tool for the grade administration department was developed
   to
      - manage exam elegibles and exam registrations. A very important
      step, because students might for example need to do a resit for
an exam and
      the there is a fixed amount of possible resits.
      - review and transfer grades to the SIS
      - an exam registration tool for students
   - For students, a My Workspace tool was developed that provided a view
   on their final grades and study progress records in the SIS.

All in all it required quite some customisations. But the result was that
all marks and grades were entered in Sakai and it significantly reduced
administrative load within the organisation, which paid back the
investments very quickly ;)

Best regards,

Jaeques Koeman

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2012/8/27 Fatima Rahiman <Fatima.Rahiman at wits.ac.za>

>  Hi All****
>
> Having just  migrated to SAKAI from WEBCT , our University is now looking
> to  see whether we could utilise SAKAI as our central repository  for
> marks. Whilst I am concerned that this  may be too an ambitious move just
> yet(too premature especially since  we have had just experienced an
> instance of content  disappearing  from a course and then magically
> returning:)- we still haven’t determined what the problem was and am
> presently  keeping my fingers crossed that this doesn’t occur again!)  I
> would  however like to  enquire from the community if there  are any
> instances where  SAKAI  has been used as the primary repository  for marks
> and what the experience has been ?****
>
> Your input is always much appreciated. Just  love the sharing that this
> forum provides!****
>
> ****
>
> ****
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