Assignments and the Gradebook
| May 7, 2012 | Filled under Announcement |
Instructors, when you add an assignment, you can choose where you will display the grades:
Adding an assignment to the Gradebook takes the grades that you post in the Assignments tool and shows them to individual students in the Gradebook. You can only add grades and comments from the Assignments tool if you set the grading this way. In the Gradebook, these items appear with a note under the Grade Editor column on the right side:
Associating an assignment with an existing Gradebook item lets you add grades and comments both through the Assignments tool and the Gradebook. In the Gradebook, you must have already added the item with which you associate the assignment. Students can only see the comments using the tool in which they were written, although the grades are displayed in both tools. This method is helpful if some of your students submit their work using Assignments but some hand in their homework another way. You can add many grades at once by clicking the title in the Gradebook: (more…)
Do you know what time it is?
| April 11, 2012 | Announcement, Tips and Tricks |
If you are out of town and in a different time zone, you can have Sakai show you the date and times for your location. In My Workspace > Preferences > Time Zone, select the appropriate area and click Update Preferences. Note that when you return to the University in Delaware, make sure to choose… more >
Providing Scantron results to students in Sakai
| April 1, 2012 | External Tool |
Faculty, in addition to posting final test scores from Scantron files in Sakai, you can send each student his or her test answers matched with the answer key. When students record their Student IDs on their test scoring forms, they provide the unique identifier for Sakai that corresponds to their individual student records. By default,… more >
Strategies and Tips for Blogging
| March 26, 2012 | Tips and Tricks |
Have you ever thought of using blogs to supplement your coursework? Campus Technology published an article on Strategies for Blog-Powered Instruction. Highlighting the work of several professors, this article takes a practical look at the unique strengths of blogs to supplement learning in the classroom. The professors all agree that “blogging works best when it’s… more >
Let the Sakai team come to you!
| March 23, 2012 | Announcement |
When using Sakai to teach a course, faculty members can feel pretty lonely. Have you ever wondered if… your colleagues are using Sakai and what they do with it? your use of Sakai is appropriate or optimal? other tools–such as Google Apps, web 2.0 tools, or social media services–could be integrated in Sakai to provide… more >
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