rSmart Sakai CLE Course Sites
The rSmart Sakai CLE is a flexible, scaleable enterprise application that provides a comprehensive environment for teaching and learning online. From distance education to hybrid and face-to-face approaches, the CLE is uniquely designed to support student-teacher interaction in a secure, online course environment.
Course sites contain a collection of easy-to-use, web-based tools that work together to facilitate course development and content delivery. Flexible site management tools also make it easy for instructors to add or remove features, change student permissions or control access to their sites at any time. Students benefit from the polished user interface and intuitive functionality, which facilitates learning and enhances the likelihood of academic success.
By allowing project and portfolio sites to be used alongside course sites, the CLE enables instructors to support the learning process beyond the classroom, encouraging student reflection, investigation, small group work and social interaction.
Course sites make it easy to:
- Maintain a course home page
- Post and view a syllabus
- Manage, store, organize and selectively share files and folders of information with class members
- Make course announcements
- Keep a course calendar of deadlines and activities
- Create sequenced access to course content
- Give and take a quiz or test
- Manage student grades
- Provide targeted feedback on assignments or lessons
- Moderate and participate in course discussions
- Send private messages to individual students
- Send messages to all site members
- View or listen to dynamic, web-based content
- Create a blog or wiki
- Manage site membership, roles, permissions and access to desired tools
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Calendar |
Track deadlines, activities and course-related events |
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Announcements |
Post reminders, notices and time critical information about your course |
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Syllabus |
Post a summary outline of course requirements |
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Lesson Builder |
Create online content sequences for your course |
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Assignments |
Create online assignments for your course |
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Feedback |
Provide targeted feedback on course projects or assignments |
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Drop Box |
Exchange files privately with individual students |
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Test & Quiz Authoring & Assessment |
Create, manage, and repurpose online tests and quizzes |
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Gradebook |
Store and calculate student grades |
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Files and Folders |
Post, store, organize and selectively share course-related resources with your site members |
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Discussion Forums |
Create, moderate and manage course discussion forums |
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Private Messaging |
Send private messages to course site members |
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Blogger |
Keep a chronological web log of news, commentary or events on your course site |
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Wiki (w/RSS feed) |
Collaborate on wiki pages for your course |
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Chat |
Host online tutoring or office hours, engage in synchronous communication with your course site members |
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Podcast |
Use Podcasts to share live RSS feeds with your students |
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Dynamic news & web content links |
Highlight dynamic news feeds or external web content related to your course |
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Email Archive |
View all emails sent to your course site members |
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Site Management tools |
Manage membership, features and functionality on your course site |
*Features are optional and can be altered by the site owner at any time.
