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Sakai 2.9 - current stable release 2.9.3
Sakai 2.8 - current stable release 2.8.3
Sakai 2.7 and earlier - not supported by the
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5. Sakai 2.10
(aka Sakai “Chocolate Pudding”. Hint: not really.)
(aka Sakai “Chocolate Pudding”. Hint: not really.)
• What is the real name?
• What is the rationale for this release?
• Timeline?
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6. Sakai 2.10 Features - Anticipated
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Announcements
Assignments
Major new features
Updates to existing features
Audio Features
Chat (tool chat, not portal chat)
Dropbox
Editor Improvements
Forums
Grading
User Interface
Gradebook
LTI (Integration with external tools based on IMS LTI specification. Formerly known as Basic LTI)
Messages
Mobile
Portal Chat
Portal Configuration
Resources (aka Content)
Search
Site Management
Statistics
Syllabus
System Administration
Tests and Quizzes (Samigo)
Editing Published Tests
Math improvements
Pools
Question Types
Settings
Statistics / Event Tracking
Student Success Plan - new
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7. Disclaimer slide
• These are educated guesses based on features
which already appear to be merged into Sakai trunk
and email discussions. All results are subject to
change until we lock down the scope of the release.
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9. Assignments
• Group Submissions
• Peer Assessments
And….
• Hide Due Date for Assvignment
• Comments sent to Gradebook along with grades
• If instructor allows resubmission, student is notified
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14. Discussion Forums
• Better integration with the gradebook. Respects
grade type setting.
• Show which forums contain unread messages
• Ability to move a thread to a different topic
• Identify site members by special rank (e.g., by role)
or by post count
• Add property to set default start and end time of day
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16. Messages
• Display the Sender's profile picture on received
messages
• Mark replied messages on the "Received" folder.
• Addition of setting to always send to recipients'
email addresses
• Add sender's email address to message body
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18. Portal Chat
• Allow institutions to remove certain roles, such as
guests, from inclusion in the portal chat
• Allow users to permanently opt out of portal chat
• Hide chat participants option (for privacy)
• (Portal chat still off by default though)
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19. Portal Configuration
• Create option to insert configurable links into portal
header. More flexible configuration at your
institution.
• Add Clock to Interface
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20. Resources
• Ability to hide a folder while allowing access to files
inside it
• Drag and Drop to add files (upload)
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22. Site Management
• Allow users to display short description instead of site title in site tab bar
• Flexible way to customize cut method for site title in tabs.
• Site Info -> Import from site needs to run in a separate thread and email user
when finished
• Subject, course and section length configurable for Site creation
• Section Info: Allow read only sections (by category) with
MANUAL_MANDATORY configuration.
• Create a property to set default number of students per page for Roster.
• Create Joinable Groups
• Worksite Setup Filter by term
• Site creation confirmation email
• Improve Create Site from Template process
• Improve layout/organization of tools in site-info
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24. Syllabus
• iSyllabus linking and link migration
• Allow inline editing for Instructors in Table of
Contents view for Syllabus
• Bulk Update Syllabus Items
• Create a Table of Contents Style view for Syllabus
• iSyllabus should be able to discover and link to new
entities
• Add Start and End Dates to Syllabus and allow
linking to Calendar
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25. System Administration
• Allow users to have to accept terms and conditions when
validating a new account.
• A better admin tool for managing site perms tool
• Improve language list to be readable for non-English
speaking user
• A new permission to view realms but not modify them
• A way to see running jobs and have ability to kill them
• Import a CSV of users in the Admin Users tool
• Ability to lock a user account
• Allow configuration to turn quartz on/off on a server by
server basis
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26. Test and Quizzes
• Admin ability to allow editing of a published assessment in
a specific site
• A new calculated question type with the ability to have
questions which contains variables, a method of setting the
range of those variables and the number of questions to be
generated of that type.
• Numeric answer can be based on a formula
• Replace floats with doubles to increase precision
• Instructor can unshare another instructor's question pool
which has been shared with her
• Multiple Choice: All or Nothing scoring option
• Use jQuery UI Accordion for assessment settings
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27. Statistics
• Event Log that Tracks Entries, Submissions, and
Errors
• Update events in assessments
• Add missing events tracking for view activity on
Announcements, Chat, Gradebook, Podcasts,
Schedule, Web content, and Wiki
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28. Student Success Plan
• Integration with Student Success Plan http://www.studentsuccessplan.org
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31. Paying down “technical debt”
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Spring Annotations
Hibernate
Audio improvements (deprecate Java applet)
JQuery
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32. Community
Why Sakai community source?
Why Sakai community source?
• Flexibility - Take a different version and merge the
fixes you need or work off a particular revision, etc.
• Flexibility - Educational Community License 2.0 based on Apache License 2.0
• Flexibility - How you wish to participate in the
community or not. How you wish to configure and
customize or not.
• Flexibility - Properties. Many features can be turned
on or off using simple properties in sakai.properties
text file.
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37. Worldwide Presence
One reported install: Argentina,
Austria, Belgium, Germany,
Denmark, Algeria, Guatemala,
Hong Kong, Ireland, Iran, Italy,
Korea, New Zealand, Puerto Rico,
Romania, Singapore
225 reported schools worldwide.
Missing some commercial partner
customers and other unreported
installs. About 300-350 worldwide
enterprise installs is a good
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40. New Standard for Integration
IMS LTI
IMS LTI
• 33 out of 70 institutions taking the survey reported using LTI for one or more
tool integrations - 47%
• 27 non-homegrown external tools integrated at one or more institutions
• 7 institutions on the survey use LTI to connect at least one home-grown tool (5
of 7 have more than one homegrown integration)
Examples of tools integrated with LTI
• Web conferencing
• Video platforms
• Wikis,
• Portfolio systems
• Plagiarism detection
• Library system
• Clickers,
• Video collaboration/markup,
• …. and more
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41. Or Do It Yourself
(Cafe de Programador)
(Cafe de Programador)
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42. How does Sakai happen?
El hada de Sakai?
El hada de Sakai?
http://tigroo92.ouvaton.org/Contributions-fees.html
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CLE 2.9.3 is considered the current stable release.
Certain orgs/schools choose to run off the 2.9.x maintenance branch; others like UMich base their local releases on a tag and then patch as necessary.
Increase Velocity of releases!!!
Assignments - Group assignments, Peer review
Test and Quizzes - calculated questions and increased precision
More options for Audio recording
Video chat (turned off by default)
Dropbox - instructor provide feedback to multiple students at one time
User interface enhancements in Discussion Forums
Better Mobile support
Easier site management
- SAK-23895 - Allow users to display short description instead of site title in site tab bar ( Resolved)
SAK-23897 - Site Info -> Import from site needs to run in a separate thread and email user when finished ( Resolved)
SAK-23652 - Make it easier to change the size of the section fields in Site Info ( Resolved)
SAK-23567 - Flexible way to customize cut method for site title in tabs. ( Resolved)
SAK-23495 - Section Info: Allow read only sections (by category) with MANUAL_MANDATORY configuration. ( Resolved)
SAK-23193 - Gradebook: Create a property to set default number of students for the pager ( Resolved)
SAK-22858 - Joinable Groups ( Closed)
SAK-22513 - Worksite Setup Filter by term ( Verified)
SAK-22501 - site creation confirmation email ( Closed)
SAK-22450 - Improve Create Site from Template process ( Verified)
SAK-16600 - Improve layout/organization of tools in site-info ( Verified)
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details on calculated questions
the ability to have questions which contains variables, a method of setting the range of those variables and the number of questions to be generated of that type
If asked about 2.9 mention some highlights like improved GUI, AntiSamy security infrastructure, improved accessibility, new rich text editor (CK Editor), Lessons and many more.
A tool that allows users to organize office hours, review sessions, study groups and similar activities.
Lots of languages
Keeping track with automation.
Especially important to Europe.
Is Jean-Francois and David Roldan in the audience?
Italy and Germany are new to 2.9
Increased local knowledge - to better administer your systems
Better planning - knowing what options are coming and which are not
Influencing direction - there are ways that are evolving to tangibly get what you you want into the CLE. Note the U of Florida model for Mobil enabling of Sakai CLE.
Benefiting the world - providing contributions back, not just code, benefits the whole community.
What is a Core tool?
Forgot Messages tool .
21 - 22 core tools
(does not include new Portal chat)
16 Contributed tools
Learning Tools Interoperability
Across many Learning Management Systems. A new standard.
El hada means “the fairy” in Spanish
Rutgers University - primary developer of the Lessons Tool, a tool bringing together other Sakai tools
University of Amsterdam and Unicon have been leading the effort for TinCan API - Learning Analytics
ESUP is leading the Internationalization effort
Brock University (Canada) is leading the Accessibility group
University of Florida is leading the Mobile effort
Many schools are helping with QA testing!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/blackbeltjones/2654801951/
Possible impact. Easier to contribute. Simpler process.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/53272102@N06/5273987806/
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Math.jpg