rSmart Sakai CLE Project Sites
Institutions around the world are recognizing the need to provide online environments for group interaction. The rSmart Sakai CLE addresses this need in its implementation of project sites. Designed to facilitate group collaboration, project sites enable users to work together in self-organized or institutionally organized spaces that promote flexible online communication, collaboration, project administration and networking.
Project sites may be directly related to a formal curriculum or used independently of it to promote learning processes and social interaction outside the classroom. Project sites are also ideal for supporting the work of faculty and administrators who often need to collaborate efficiently and effectively with colleagues across an institution or around the world.
Project sites are commonly used to support:
- Student recruitment and retention
- Group work
- Leadership development
- Extracurricular clubs and activities
- Faculty departmental work
- Grant proposal writing
- Doctoral oversight
- Scientific and virtual research collaboration
- Administrative committee work
- Tenure review
- Human resource administration
- Institutional coordination
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Home |
Design a home page for your site |
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Calendar |
Track deadlines, activities and site-related events |
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Announcements |
Post reminders, notices and time critical information for site members |
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Chat |
Host online sessions or engage in synchronous communication with site members |
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Blog |
Keep a running chronology of news, commentary or information on your project site |
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Wiki (w/RSS feed) |
Collaborate on group wiki pages |
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Email Archive |
View all email sent to site participants |
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Resources |
Post, store, organize and selectively share group related files and folders |
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Discussion Forums/Messaging Center |
Create, moderate and manage group discussion forums |
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Private Messaging |
Send private messages to site participants |
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Dynamic news & web content links |
Highlight dynamic news feeds or external web content related to your project |
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Site Management tools |
Manage membership, features, functionality and configuration of your project site |
*Features are optional and can be altered by the site owner at any time.
