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An email list for announcements of general interest to the entire Sakai community, such as the Sakai Newsletter, conference announcements, calls for confernece session proposals, updates on Sakai releases, etc.

The Development Discussion Group (DG) is for those interested and involved in the design and development of Sakai. This is the companion wiki space for the sakai-dev email list hosted on Collab's DG: Development (a.k.a. sakai-dev) site. Conference presentations related to this topic can typically be found in the "Building Sakai" track.

An email list for general discussion of topics that do not fit in elsewhere, or might be seen as off-topic.

A place for Sakai Administrators, System Administrators, Database Administratores, etc. to share and discuss production experiences, metrics, and best practices.

Forum for discussion of Sakai project management and coordination activities.

The Using Sakai area is oriented towards the needs of teachers, instructors, researchers, collaborators, instructional technologists, user support and related members of the Sakai community. It encompasses a broad range of topics, including sharing best practices for teaching and collaborating; asking, answering and demoing how various tools and capabilities work; discussing end-user support materials (e.g., documentation, training, tutorials); connecting with users with similar interests and needs; etc.

This is an open forum for discussing Sakai accessibility issues.

The Internationalization Working Group (WG) is focused on supporting Internationalization (I18N) and Localization (L10N) in Sakai.

This group is for those interested in K-12 applications of Sakai.
Interested parties should also join the K-12 group on http://collab.sakaiproject.org

Handles questions regarding licensing in Sakai, including helping developers determine which third-party licenses are compatible with Sakai's license.

The Performance Working Group is a team of interested organizations working collaboratively to improve Sakai framework and tool scalability, reliability, and performance times. Shared design, resources, results, and discussions of this working group will supplement the functionality testing of the QA Working Group.

Our goal is to produce sets of development documentation and sample code to facilitate Sakai tool development. The idea is to allow a programmer with basic knowledge of Java to go through these tutorials and end up equipped to write a Sakai tool.
We also plan to present day long workshops (called bootcamps) at each major Sakai conference. The cafe bootcamps are intensive day long workshops consisting of presentations and exercises designed to help developers get up to speed developing tools/apps for the Sakai framework. The bootcamps are also intended as a way to present new development technologies and best practices and techniques to developers who are experienced in Java and Sakai development.

The Sakai QA Working Group tests the Sakai software to ensure it is working as it's expected to and that the changes that were made don't introduce new problems.

The UX WG is concerned with all things "User Experience" in Sakai, such as usability, accessibility, design, and web GUI development.

Creation and management of internal Sakai accounts.

Agora is an easy to use, open source online meeting tool. All members of a Sakai worksite can create a meeting in just a few mouse clicks, and joining is as simple as clicking a link in the Sakai tool. Apart from a Java virtual machine there is no need for any explicit software installation on the user's PC, all required software is transparently loaded at startup.

Provides a single alternate namespace that can be used by other Sakai applications.

Used to inform site participants of current items of interest.

Instructors use to create, distribute, collect and grade assignments.

A second generation of the assignments tool. Initial phase involves conversion to RSF, better gradebook integration, and a redesign for an improved user experience. Future phases involve JCR for content storage and customizable workflows.

Blog is a tool that allows the creation of journals that are available on the web.

An RSF-based blog tool.

The Breeze Link allows a Sakai installation to seamlessly connect to a Breeze server and allows users to connect to Breeze meetings with a single click. No additional sign on is required and users will appear in the meeting with their display name from Sakai.

A development effort to bring CalDAV support to the Sakai trunk, in order that Sakai events might be stored and managed through an external CalDAV-supporting repository (e.g. Zimbra, Bedework).

Forum for discussion of Sakai project management and coordination activities.

The Checklist Contrib Project will be responsible for addressing or promoting the needs of graduate students through Sakai.

The Clicker Registration is for students to register their Clicker ID's in courses that use them.

The ability to cluster-enable Sakai to support session failover using Terracotta.

Cris Holdorph, Alexey Zhukov

A Conditional Release architecture and design, which involve a "ConditionService" which will work in concert with other services and store rules against a tool or domain object.

The Sakai Config Viewer is a tool to help administrators make sense of the configuration options that can be set in sakai.properties. It displays a list of available properties along with a host of value added data.

The Resources Viewer is a simple tool which displays the contents of selected folders from the Resources tool in a simpler, more user-friendly manner. In particular, it fulfills the requirements of displaying a list of resources together with their descriptions and creating links to Resources content in the left-hand navigation (tool) menu.

The Data Warehouse is designed to use in conjunction with Reports. It provides a way to abstract reportable data from the Sakai database through the Sakai APIs, which avoids the need to know about the data model of the database. It also allows access to data in the database that are stored in xml (resource metadata, forms data, etc), by extracting that information through the APIs and putting it into tables in the data warehouse area. Reports, therefore, are as backwards compatible as the APIs are.

Give formative evaluations to students in their courses and review the results.

A feed tool for Sakai based off of the "News Feed" concept in the popular social networking site Facebook. Sakai's Feed tool allows for users to quickly see an aggregate set of events posted from all of Sakai's tools on their Workspace, their sites' Workspaces, and even in an RSS feed format.

Form Builder (formerly known as XSD Weaver) is a graphical user interface for creating XSD files for use in ePortfolios.

Enables the definition of program, course, and/or personal goals, the ability to tag activities (such as assignments, datapoints, OSP wizard pages and/or OSP matrix cells) with applicable goals, and the ability to rate user performance towards goals based on work submitted for the activities.

Home Page tool offers a substitute for the current Home view of a site.

Tool for analyzing the status of the Sakai translations in the source repository.

The Gallery Tool will allow a user to select a collection of images (a gallery) and view the images in a specified order. The tool is focused on selecting, sequencing, and viewing - not creation or editing.

IMS Enterprise Services

IMS Tool Interoperability code for Sakai.

A responder- or clicker- type tool designed for synchronous, though not necessarily co-located, classroom settings. In addition to the typical responder functionality, an image can be displayed with an accompanying question or note, each student can click on the image at a particular location to indicate their response, and the aggregated results of all student clicks can be viewed.

JForum Discussion & Private Messages offers industry-standard discussion functionality to users. (More info...)

Forum for discussion of Sakai project management and coordination activities.

Forum for discussion of Sakai project management and coordination activities.

A derivation of the Blog tool aimed at pedagogies where reflective learning takes center stage.

Support for linking external tools into Sakai.

MailArchive Wow! builds upon the ideas in the existing MailArchive, and leverages a number of new libraries/specs such as JSR-170 and RSF.

Compose and send email to an individual site participant or all site participants from within Sakai.

Melete is a lesson builder that allows instructors to publish learning sequences that can be created by using a rich text editor, uploading learning objects, or pointing to existing URL resources. (More info...)

An assessment tool and service.

"My Sakai" makes it possible to get your files and announcements, and keep track of what's going on in your Sakai sites, straight from your desktop. For example, a student engrossed in writing an essay, who suddenly realises they need to check something in a document in their course site, can open it straight from their desktop widget, without having to break off and navigate through Sakai to find it.

"My Sakai" widgets show you recent activity on all of the worksites you're a member of. This means that the widget will tell you when a new announcement or a new resource has been added. The widgets also provide synoptic views of Resources and Announcements.

We have created widgets for Mac DashBoard, Vista Sidebar, Facebook, iGoogle, Google Desktop, and RSS.

News Feeds is a feed aggregator tool developed for Sakai. The tool supports multiple feeds, user-provided feeds or selection from pre-configured institutional list, BASIC/DIGEST authentication and feed attachments (enclosures).

Support in Sakai for creating OpenCourseWare materials and sites. For information about the OpenCourseWare initiative, see http://www.ocwconsortium.org/about/index.shtml.

oodb is a Sakai Service for using the db4o oo-database for persistence.

OpenSyllabus is an easy to use tool to create and publish model-based syllabi where faculty can finely control which resources (doc, ppt, xls, pdf, etc.) are accessible to registered students or to the general public. OpenSyllabus offers a unified interface with a standardized vocabulary for easy navigation. It also supports courses given to multiple sections.

Individual learners, teachers, and professionals create electronic portfolios to represent themselves using web-based software.

The Page Order Helper Tool allows users with update permissions on a site to: (1) Order / Reorder pages (drag n' drop), (2) Add pages (drag n' drop), (3) Remove pages, (4) Edit pages (currently only page title and url for web content tools), and (5) Toggle page visibility to show and hide pages from non maintain members of the site.

Displays podcasts in a user friendly way and provides an RSS feed for access through one's favorite podcatcher; uses Resources for storage of podcasts.

A polling tool for Sakai.

QNA (Questions and Answers) is a new tool being developed by UNISA and UCT. QNA enables students to ask questions anonymously, which can be answered by other students or lecturers or tutors (instructors/TAs). Questions are ranked by their popularity and can also be organized into categories. QNA builds on experiences from two existing tools: UNISA's FAQ tool and UCT's DFAQ tool.

A tool to present a configurable summary of recent activity in a site or across multiple sites.

Report's purpose is to run predefined SQL-based queries against the Sakai database, store the results for later viewing, and display the results in the browser window. It relies on the Data Warehouse.

Reset guest user passwords.

Roleplay (aka "user alias") is a tool and service for Sakai 2.6.0 and later which allows users to be known as a name other than their default Sakai name within a site. It was originally developed at UCT for an international trade bargaining simulation game in which students were known by country names representing their teams (e.g. "Brazil 2A") rather than realm names.

Sakai Groovy Shell

The Sakai Installer project started as an experiment by Edia in running Sakai off a USB stick. We wanted to find a way to make it easier for people to give Sakai a try and at the same time we wanted something to hand out during the Amsterdam Sakai conference in 2007 that would make people notice us. I think I can say we succeeded in both.

The version that we're now open sourcing is an updated version of the one that we created the Sakai on a USB stick with. That USB stick contained an installer that does two things: it check for and installs a Java JRE and it starts a demo version of Sakai that is placed on the stick alongside the installer. Once started, Sakai runs entirely from the stick. The database is HSQLDB, which is stored on the stick itself. That means you can start Sakai from the stick, create users, sites, resources etc and than plug the stick into a different computer and find Sakai in the exact state that you left it in.

The source for the Sakai installer is in contrib: https://source.sakaiproject.org/contrib//sakai-installer/

The SakaiMaps tool integrates Google Maps into Sakai and allows users to define and browse points of interest (POI) on the map. Each POI has a name, a short description, a type and optionally a url with more information.

SakaiAdminX is a web application that seeks to simplify and ease Sakai administrative tasks.

Using SakaiAdminX you can:

• create and delete sites (either blank or based on templates)
• edit sites (title, skin, site icon, type, contact details etc)
• add and remove users with different degrees of permissions
• search for users
• manage people that have 'admin' or 'helpdesk' access to all sites.

SakaiAdminX introduces more levels of administrative permissions to Sakai which allows a single Sakai environment to be used for multiple institutions or clients. This is achieved through the concept of 'clients', where each client has a set of sites attached to it - with their own branding/look and feel. Each client also has its own admin/helpdesk users who have access to all sites attached to that client.

You also get a helpdesk user, which has access to all sites like an admin user and you assign users to be helpdesk users giving them access to all sites, much like the admin user works in Sakai at present.

The main function of SakaiAdminX revolves around the 'Site Profile'. This is a place where all editing of the site takes place, ie title, skin, icon, contact details, as well as adding and removing users. All done with far less clicks than the existing Sakai interfaces, and all done on the one screen. The Site Profile is easily extensible, so if you need additional functionality, just plug it in!

SakaiAdminX can also be deployed separate to Sakai itself, or sitting alongside the rest of the Sakai webapps as it makes use of a vastly extended set of webservices written for Sakai.

SakaiAdminX includes a single sign on from SakaiAdminX to your existing Sakai installation, and can be CASified easily (instructions included).

Sakaibrary is a project to integrate licensed library resources with Sakai.

On today's campus, two main enterprise applications run the business of a college or university. The Student Information System (SIS) is the lifeblood for tracking courses, enrollment, and outcomes at an institution. The Learning Management System (LMS) has attained a high profile on campus as learning demands for the student population change and evolve. To continue to deliver solutions that meet the critical needs of higher education, Unicon and Oracle have partnered together to integrate these two applications to offer a complete solution to the marketplace that allows for integration of course, enrollment, and outcomes information to be exchanged between the Student Information System and the Learning Management System. With the Student Administration Integration Pack (SAIP) for PeopleSoft Campus Solutions, Oracle is exposing course and enrollment data via open standards that can be consumed by a Learning Management System. Through the Sakora project, Unicon is providing the functionality for Sakai to consume this data via the same open standards. This work is a large step forward in allowing institutions to have seamless integration between the two most vital applications on campus.

SAMigo, also known as Tests and Quizzes, is an online assessment tool for teaching and learning that runs within the Sakai open-source LMS/CLE. See full descriptions at Home

A Sakai tool able to launch and sequence a known conformant 'SCORM 2004 Conformant Sharable Content Object' (SCO), including data persistence of the full data model.

• Fix critical Indexing errors for clusters with a journaled indexer done
• Reduce Memory usage in indexers done
• Eliminate Entity dependency done
• Bug Fixes to fix some of the above

The Sakai Electronic Lab Notebook for Research and Groupwork (SENRG) is intended to act as a replacement for traditional notebooks which are used commonly in pedagogical environments ranging from large lectures to science labs.

A tool that allows users to organize office hours, review sessions, study groups and similar activities.

The simple page tool allows users to create simple pages in worksites using the WYSIWYG editor, these pages can then link to things in resources if desired. It is defined as a multi tool so it can be added multiple times to the same site using the page order tool.

Site Stats is a tool for showing site statistics by user, event, or resource.

The Skin manager tool allows site administrators to install and manage skins in a Sakai instance. Skins are uploaded in the portal as .zip archives that contain graphics and style sheets. The tool displays all the skins in use throughout the Sakai instance and indicates which sites use a particular skin. Skins may be revised by uploading a new archive and it is possible to revert to earlier versions of a skin. This strongly simplifies the skin installation process: no longer access to the file system of the sakai instance is needed.

The Sousa project is aimed at creating simple, sequenced content for delivery to a student. It is based on the idea that content should be managed by the Content Hosting Service, thus giving users complete access to it via the Resource tool. Sequences are saved in XML files, and eventually will have an export mechanism that will zip up a sequence with its content items. It can be thought of as a learning construction kit that's easy to extend and flexible in its use.

Sparkline collects and displays continuous real-time feedback. It has an interface for users to continuously adjust a relative rating scale and a constantly updating sparkline of the average rating.

A tool, generally only for administrators to use, for assuming another user's identity in Sakai.

Taggable API.

TelEduc is an e-learning Web environment developed by Nied/UNICAMP in Brazil and adopted by thousands of local organizations. This project is intended to migrate some TelEduc tools to Sakai, as we strongly believe that Brazilian/TelEduc users would accept Sakai environment easier if they found familiar tools in Sakai.

A tool to facilitate the identification, buying and selling of textbooks.

Source code at https://source.sakaiproject.org/contrib/whitman/timeline/

July 9, 2009: Project status and installation and usage documents coming shortly.

TransformAble is useful for users who want to customize Sakai's appearance to improve the readability and accessibility.

User Activity is designed to show the history and details of a user's activity within a site from a single place. The primary use case for this is to support lecturers or tutors (=instructors / TAs) who want to look at the pattern of participation of a particular student in a course for academic diagnostic purposes (or to support, acknowledge, encourage or grade the student's online participation). Secondary applications might be for users to see details of each other's contributions. This will be complementary to Site Stats and the IU Feeds tool.

User Membership is a tool for administrators to see which sites an user belongs to.

The goal of Wicket Contrib is to provide a component set to facilitate the development of Sakai tools using Apache Wicket (http://wicket.apache.org). If you're wondering what Wicket is all about, we've started compiling a list of hopefully useful links here. We are also compiling a list of projects that are using Wicket.

Integration of Wimba and Sakai.

A Word-2-QTI Converter.

Yaft is a forum tool designed with simplicity and clarity in mind. The name Yaft stands for yet another forum tool (there are currently 3 others in Sakai !) and although I admit it is a silly name it's hardly likely to clash with anything else in Sakai, is it? Suggestions are welcome for new names though ...