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How-to Videos for Faculty

Sakai Overview

• 5 Big Ideas about Sakai

• Get oriented

Customizing Site Appearance

• How to enable tools within Sites and your My Workspace

• How to add a picture and text to a site home page

• How to add and remove tools/links from a site menu

• How to change the order of tools/links or hide tools from a site menu

• How to create a site menu divider

• How to create a custom link in a site menu

• How to manage site tabs

• How to publish your site

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Adding and Modifying Site Materials

• How to add a course syllabus using the syllabus tool

• Resources: common tasks

• How to drag and drop files and folders into a site using WebDav with:

  • WindowsXP
  • Windows 7
  • Mac

• How to copy documents or files from one site to another

• How to create a citation list 

• How to create a podcast

• How to create a "group drop box" using the Resources tool

• How to merge site data

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Assignments & Grading

• Assignments: common tasks

• Gradebook: common tasks

Communication and Collaboration Tools

Announcements

 

• Announcements: common tasks

Messages

• Messages: common tasks

Calendar

• How to create calendar entries

• How to link course content to a calendar entry

• How to download or sync to a site's calendar

• How to download and upload calendar entries from one site to another

• How to upload calendar entries using an Excel file

Wiki

• How to get started with the wiki tool

• Use jsMath to write formulas

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