Use course sites in the rSmart Sakai CLE to teach online courses, facilitate online training, or to supplement courses you're already teaching in the classroom.
Course sites offer an extensive selection of tools used to support teaching & learning. Many of the tools integrate with each other to enhance the ease with which an instructor can build and facilitate the course, and to enhance the student experience when attending and contributing to the course.
rSmart often tests new tools that have been developed by the Sakai community and when these "contributed tools" are deemed stable enough to use, they are included in the rSmart CLE release.
Many instructors choose all or some subset of the following tools to include within their course sites:
Communication Tools
Course Tools
Site Management Tools
Announcements
Announcements
Distribute information and send out notification about activities or events relevant to your site.
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Calendar
Calendar
Post information about activities and events of interest to your site participants.
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Discussion Forums
Discussion Forums
Create, moderate, participate and manage discussion groups and topics within your site.
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Messages
Messages
Post private messages to site participants.
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Forums
Forums
Post discussion topics or respond to discussion threads.
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Mailtool
Mailtool
Send email messages to site participants, groups, individuals and external users.
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Email Archive
Email Archive
See a list of messages that have been sent to your site.
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Chat Room
Chat Room
Engage in real-time, unstructured conversations with your site members.
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Blogger
Blogger
Keep a chronological web log of news, commentary or events on your site.
Polls
Polls
Take a quick poll of users on your site.
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Syllabus
Syllabus
Create a unit-based outline of your course.
Lessons
Lessons
Develop, publish, and manage online instructional sequences for your site.
Live Virtual Classroom
Live Virtual Classroom
For those institutions that have Elluminate virtual classroom, you can: schedule Elluminate meetings, edit and delete scheduled meetings and recordings, create moderator users in Elluminate, join meetings, watch recordings of past meetings, filter and sort lists of meetings and recordings, and access the Elluminate server to check configuration and status between the servers from within the CLE.
Evaluation System
Evaluation System
Allows you to conduct anonymous formative and summative evaluations of your sites.
Resources
Resources
Post, store and organize material of use to site participants.
Assignments
Assignments
Create and submit text-based assignments.
Tests & Quizzes
Tests & Quizzes
Create, edit and manage online assessments and set up automatic feedback and grading options.
Drop Box
Drop Box
Exchange documents with an instructor in a private, individualized folder.
Gradebook
Gradebook
Calculate, store and distribute grade information to students.
Feedback
Feedback
Provide targeted feedback on assignments to site participants.
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Podcasts
Podcasts
Share RSS feeds with your site participants.
Wiki
Wiki
Create a website that allows site participants to add and edit content collaboratively.
News
News
Display a dynamic news source to site participants.
Web Content
Web Content
Display a web site outside the system to your site participants. This can also be used to integrate outside web applications like Google Docs into a site.
Student View
Student View
Allows you to display your site as if you were a user in this role. You can see and experience every aspect of your site from the viewpoint of a student or user in any other role.
Site Editor
Site Editor
Edit and manage your site.
Sections
Sections
Create and manage sections in your course.
Site Statistics
Site Statistics
View statistics on your site by user, event or resource.
Roster
Roster
View a list of participants in your site.
Search
Search
Look for content within or across sites in which you're a member.
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Help
Help
Provide contextual help documentation to site participants.