[Using Sakai] Sakai usage & features

[Steve Swinsburg]

Hi Gregory,

Which version of Sakai are you using? There are some tools that will make your life easier, but we need to know the version you are using.

cheers,
Steve


On 18/07/2012, at 1:18 PM, Gregory Guthrie wrote:

> We are new to Sakai, and trying to evaluate it as a comparison to Moodle & Canvas.
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> Perhaps it is just new-user blues, but I am amazed at how hard it is to port my existing web pages for a course into Sakai, a few examples;
>  
> 1)      I have a syllabus page, and want to reference other tools in a hyperlink, but cannot find out how. The hyperlink tool seems only to point to web pages on the resources page, or external URLs, I can’t find a way to link to (for example) the assignments tool page.
> 2)      The editor and editing process is ridiculous. It opens in a very small window, and if I use the magic (ctl-alt-enter) it expands, but then with no visible indication that it is in a new mode and cannot be saved until reverted to the small window.
> I pasted in some plain text from word, and on a save get a series of errors :”The HTML tag <xml> …” with no indication where in the edited input file it finds the error. And so deleting it all and doing a paste-from-word, gives the same result.
> Ctl-A Ctl-C copy the whole window and paste back into word, loses formatting, and all graphics.
> So now I am stuck with a page that will not save, won’t copy out correctly, and won’t tell me where it finds invisible errors.
> 3)      Editing in the larger window, fi I scroll down to edit the bottom of the text, then the edit toolbar scrolls off the top of the browser window – so I have to page up/down to edit anything on the lower part of the window.
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> I realize that one overall disclaimer is to just say “don’t’ use the editor”, use Word & paste, but this seems like a significant weakness in a content creation tool, and as noted above even that has problems and limitations.
>  
> If I am missing something please inform me, we are trying to evaluate these tools!
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