Sakai CLE Courseware Management -- Table of Contents -- Sakai CLE Courseware Management -- Credits -- Foreword -- The Sakai Community -- Educational Community License -- The Sakai Foundation -- Change is the norm -- Getting started -- About the Authors -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more -- Why Subscribe? -- Free Access for Packt account holders -- Preface -- What this book covers -- What you need for this book -- Who this book is for -- Conventions -- Reader feedback -- Customer support -- Errata -- Piracy -- Questions -- 1. What is Sakai? -- Sakai tools -- The Sakai Foundation -- Sakai worksite -- The community -- Branches -- Workgroups -- Developers -- Rogues Gallery -- Sakai's academic background -- A brief history -- The Java-based tool creation -- Sakai 1.0 -- Present day -- What's Next? - The Sakai open academic environment -- Advantages for organizations -- Summary -- 2. Feet First: Running the Demo -- Installing the demo -- Administrator's account -- Expanding the demo -- Help is your friend -- Live demos -- Building from the source -- Summary -- 3. Sakai 2.x Anatomy -- The Sakai framework -- The aggregation layer -- The presentation layer -- The tools layer -- The services layer -- Core technologies -- How Sakai is deployed at scale -- Load balancing -- Frontend servers -- Database preferences -- The Java Virtual Machine -- Enterprise data integration -- Sakai OAE anatomy -- Architectural overview -- Client-side anatomy ("3akai-ux") -- Nakamura server-side anatomy ("Nakamura") -- Summary -- 4. My First Site -- Tool-specific help -- Managing project sites -- Browsing the demonstration -- Site creation -- Creating a course site -- Tools of immediate value -- Maintaining your site details -- Starter tips -- Descriptions are important -- Password strength.

The motivation for sections -- Creating sections -- Summary -- 5. Enterprise Bundle Tools and Quality Assurance -- Using Core tools in Sakai 2.6 -- Core tools since Sakai 2.6 -- From Contrib to Provisional -- Stealthily to Core -- Enterprise-level quality -- The Quality Assurance process -- QA leads -- Maintenance releases -- Automated testing -- Automatic code analysis -- Summary -- 6. Worksite Tools -- Creating flashcards -- Commonalities between tools -- The Resources tool -- Using course tools together -- The context -- Making a communication plan -- Placing Content -- Assessing individual students -- Introducing Portfolios -- Towards OSP integration in Sakai OAE -- Summary -- 7. Contributed Tools -- An apology of sorts -- The range of contributed tools -- Sponsoring creativity -- Pros and cons -- A list of tools -- Example deployments -- The University of Michigan -- Interview with David Haines, Senior Developer at Michigan -- The University of Cape Town -- Creating tools -- Building tools -- SASH -- Interview with Steven Githens, the force behind SASH -- Summary -- 8. Putting Sakai to Work -- The tools and structure of a Sakai site -- Sakai's site structure -- My Workspace -- The Home tool contents -- The basic collaboration tools -- Site administration -- The basic teaching and learning tools -- Types of Sakai sites -- Problem-based courses -- Small discussion courses -- Large introductory courses -- Project-based courses -- Collaboration sites -- Building your Home page -- Check out the new look -- Edit your page -- Replace the site description -- Customize the Home page -- Ready to roll -- Summary -- 9. The Administration Workspace -- What is a Sakai administrator? -- The Administration tool set -- Basic concepts -- Internal ID -- Java -- Realms -- sakai.properties -- An interview with Anthony Atkins -- Summary.

10. Web Services: Connecting to the Enterprise -- Protocols -- Playing with Telnet -- Installing TCPMON -- Requests and returned status codes -- SOAP -- JSON -- REST -- Existing web services -- Recapping terminology -- Default web services -- Sakai and SOAP -- My first web service -- My first client -- A more realistic client example -- Entity Broker -- Finding descriptions of services -- Authenticating -- A client-side coding example -- Interview with author Aaron Zeckoski, the author of Entity Broker -- WSRP -- Summary -- 11. Tips from the Trenches -- The benefits of knowing that frameworks exist -- Using the third-party frameworks -- The benefit of using Spring -- Hibernate for database coupling -- The many Apache frameworks -- Looking at dependencies -- An expanded tour of Java -- Introduction -- Profiling using JMX -- The Apache web server -- Migration -- Migrating course content -- A bit of history -- Enabling LMS content import -- A note about IMS Common Cartridge -- Using "Import from File" -- Interviews at the deep end -- Megan May -- Seth Theriault -- David Howitz -- Summary -- 12. Understanding Common Error Messages -- A policy of containment of errors -- Reporting -- Quality Assurance analysis -- Production systems -- Configuring logging -- Common error messages -- Java version -- Port issues -- Out of memory -- The portal -- The database -- Search -- sakai.properties -- File permissions -- Class not found -- Information sources -- Summary -- 13. Show Cases -- Acknowledgements -- CamTools: Using Sakai to support teaching and learning in a research-intensive university -- About the authors -- CamTools: Sakai at the University of Cambridge -- Evidence-informed approaches to virtual learning environment development: the case of Plant Sciences -- New directions -- Sakai @ the University of Amsterdam -- About the author -- About the University.

E-learning -- The SURF Foundation -- UvA communities - a Sakai collaboration environment -- Web Klassen -- Conflict Studies -- IIS Communities -- The Hague Forum for Judicial Expertise -- Project site -- Testweeklab -- Digital Portfolio - a different use case -- Why Sakai? -- University of Michigan -- Sakai success story -- Transforming the education experience -- Supporting the dissertation process -- Streamlining academic administration -- Future directions -- UFP-UV: UFP in the Sakai project -- Abstract -- Introduction -- Sakai usage, full adoption -- The current Sakai skin at UFP -- The UFP tools -- Sakai usage at UFP -- Concurrent users during January 2006 - January 2007 -- September 2006 - September 2007 -- Up to September, 2007 -- Marist College and Sakai -- Background -- The commercial partner implementation model -- Migrating a campus to Sakai -- Tangible outcomes -- rSmart -- Overview -- History -- Easy to adopt -- Easy to try -- Crossing the border into research: A case study of students' engagement with a virtual research environment -- About the authors -- Background -- Tutor engagement -- Data collection -- Student engagement -- Key themes -- Conclusions and recommendations -- SOLO - Taking e-learning offline -- About the author -- Background -- Internet bandwidth and cost -- North-West University (South Africa) -- How Solo works -- The LAMP Consortium - like a bundle of sticks -- About the author -- Introducing the project -- Award winning -- Winning factors -- The LAMP experience -- Criminology - a distance course in Sakai -- About the authors -- The Department of Criminology -- Description of the distance course -- Experiences - Lessons learned -- Clarifying the structure of a course -- The importance of the group -- The social space -- The absence of feedback -- The need of support -- Future development -- Conclusion -- Summary.

14. Innovating Teaching and Learning with Sakai -- The Teaching with Sakai Innovation Award -- Case studies from the winner's circle -- 2008's First place winner: Biomedical Engineering (University of Michigan, USA) -- Course description -- Course development and delivery -- Collaboration and communication -- Learning materials -- Learning outcomes and assessment -- Course's look and feel, web usability -- Learner support -- Teaching innovation -- Interactions with subject matter experts -- Interactions with the instructor and curriculum -- Interactions with content -- Interactions with peers -- Innovation snapshot: Forensic science goes online -- Project overview -- How Sakai was used -- Implications for Teaching and Learning -- Lesson learned -- 2008's Second place winner: International Law (University of Cape Town, South Africa) -- Course description -- Course development and delivery -- Collaboration and communication -- Learning outcomes and assessment -- Course's look & feel, web usability -- Learner support -- Teaching innovation -- Interactions with subject-matter experts -- Interactions with peers -- Interactions with content -- Innovation Snapshot: Facebook meets history -- Project overview -- How Sakai was used -- Impact on teaching and learning -- Lessons learned -- Conclusions -- Passive versus active learning -- Teacher-centered versus student-centered learning -- Less innovative versus more innovative uses of tools -- Summary -- 15. A Crib Sheet for Selling Sakai to Traditional Management -- Introduction -- Context -- The University's IT department -- The challenges of a shared service center -- Educational systems and administrative systems -- Open source at the IC -- Introduction -- Success with uPortal and CAS -- Sakai on the fringes -- Sakai at UvA -- An interview with the director -- Summary.

16. Participating in the Sakai Community.