Course Sites

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. image #2 Calendar Calendar Post information about activities and events of interest to your site participants. image #2 Discussion Forums Discussion Forums Create, moderate, participate and manage discussion groups and topics within your site. image #2 Messages Messages Post private messages to site participants. image #2 Forums Forums Post discussion topics or respond to discussion threads. image #2 Mailtool Mailtool Send email messages to site participants, groups, individuals and external users. image #2 Email Archive Email Archive See a list of messages that have been sent to your site. image #2 Chat Room Chat Room Engage in real-time, unstructured conversations with your site members. image #2 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. image #2	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. image #2 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. image #2 Help Help Provide contextual help documentation to site participants.