Sakai Tool Descriptions

Names and brief descriptions for each tool that can be added to a Sakai site are listed below.

• Announcements - For posting current, time-critical information
• Assignments - For posting, submitting and grading assignment(s) online
• Attendance - A simple tool to track student attendance.
• Calendar - For posting and viewing deadlines, events, etc.
• Chat Room - For real-time conversations in written form
• Discussions - Display forums and topics of a particular site
• Drop Box - For private file sharing between instructor and student
• Email Archive - For viewing email sent to the site
• Email Sender - Send email to select participants in your site.
• External Tool - Launch external tools using IMS Learning Tools Interoperability.
• Gradebook - Compute, store, and export grades; release to students for review
• Lessons - For creating content modules and sequences; can be organized by week or unit
• Messages - Display messages to/from users of a particular site
• News - For viewing content from RSS News Feeds
• Overview - For viewing description of the site. May include recent announcements, discussion, and chat items.
• Podcasts - For managing individual podcast and podcast feed information
• Polls - For anonymous polls or voting
• PostEm - For posting individualized text to each user in the site
• Resources - For posting documents, URLs to other websites, etc.
• Roster - For viewing the site participants list
• Rubrics - For creating and managing grading rubrics for use in the Gradebook and in individual assessment tools
• Section Info - For managing sections within a site
• Sign-up - For enabling online registration for meetings and other events
• Site Info - For showing worksite information and site participants
• Statistics - For showing site statistics by user, event or resource of the site
• Syllabus - For posting a summary outline and/or requirements for a site
• Tests & Quizzes - For creating and taking online tests and quizzes
• Web Content - For accessing internal resources or an external website within the site.
• Wiki - For collaborative editing of pages and content
• Zoom Meetings - For scheduling, joining, and managing Zoom web conference meetings for a course or project in Sakai.

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