After you've logged into Sakai, your Sakai courses will be listed as tabs across the top of the Sakai window. If you are enrolled in more than four courses, there will be a "My Active Sites" tab to the right. This tab pops-up a drop down list of all the terms and their respective course sites that you are enrolled in. Also, please check with your professor if you are unsure of whether a Sakai site is available for their course.

Yes. When students add a class, they are automatically added to the roster by the registrar. However, there is a delay of about 12 hours between the time the students are added to the roster and the time the Sakai database is updated to reflect those changes. Therefore, the students will generally have to wait until the next day to gain access to the class site.

If you are using Internet Explorer 8, you will need to disable Compatibility mode. You can toggle Compatibility mode in the browser using the icon next to the address bar.

Click the title of a Thread. When the View drop-down box is set to "Thread," you can read all the messages on the page and click "Mark All as Read" at the top of the page. Then click the "Next Thread" link to go immediately to the next thread without loading the main Topic page.
If the View drop-down box is set to View "Unread" messages, use the Previous Thread - Next Thread links at the top right to show only new messages. After reading, click the letter icon or "Mark All as Read" at the top of the page.
Alternatively, you can click the small black triangle next to the Thread title to display a threaded version of sub-posts. Click the letter icon next to the post to mark the post as "Read."

If the test is organized so that one question at a time is presented Sakai saves the progress as the user moves from one question to the next, i.e. clicks the "next" button to advance. When the connection is dropped, simply reconnect and refresh the page. Sakai will return the user to the next unanswered question.

Pasting text from Microsoft Word directly into the WYSIWYG editor may result in garbled output, even if the text appears correct in the editor. Instead, to insert formatted text from a Word document, click the Paste from Word icon, and paste using Ctrl-v or Command-v. For details, see Pasting from Microsoft Word.

Internet Explorer is currently the only browser that supports the spellcheck feature. To use spellcheck, you must first download and install the ieSpell extension from the ieSpell download page; you may only download ieSpell on a personal computer, not on a university-owned workstation.

The current version of Sakai requires the user to enter a subject before the e-mail is sent. The e-mail sent to students will have a subject line automatically generated by Sakai, the course title, as well as the subject listed when the e-mail is created. Provide a subject and the e-mail will be sent.

In Internet Explorer 8, if compatibility mode is off and there is already a page worth of content in the editor (scrollbar appears), this problem occurs. To fix this problem, compatibility mode must be enabled. Compatibility mode can be enabled in the browser by clicking the icon next to the address bar.

There is a small button that appears to the left of the name of each tool. This button, represented by a blue curled arrow, is called the reset button. Use the reset button to return to the starting point of any tool, as if you had entered the tool in a new session.

Please clear your internet browser's history, cookies and cache. Once you have done this you will need to quit your browser completely and restart it.

Sakai is designed to function independently of your browser buttons. If you change your mind about a task, such as posting a syllabus or a resource item, you need to rely on the buttons within Sakai to cancel the action instead of your browser's Back button. Choose the "Cancel" button at the bottom of the screen or the "Reset" button at the top left of the screen.

Yes, if the Mailtool is available in the site. This tool gives students the ability to easily create an e-mail and send it to select individual students or groups of students.

To manage the course tabs in Sakai,
Go to 'My Workspace' tab and click Preferences in the tool list.
Shift the course site(s) to the Active or Hidden box as desired and hit the 'Update Preferences' button at the bottom.

Yes. Sakai allows you to add multiple documents at a time via the Sakai resources tool. Sakai also allows users to drag and drop complete folders or multiple files at a time by using a new technology called WEBDAV.
For more information on how to drag and drop files into your Sakai site, if you are using a PC, please click here.
If you are using Windows 7, follow this link and it will bring you to a tutorial that will lead you through the necessary steps to set up WebDav.
Mac users click here.

When you first log in to Sakai, you are in a space called “My Workspace”. This is your individual online workspace, where you can store private documents (in Resources), set preferences, create a profile, and maintain a private calendar, among other things.

Windows:

• Internet Explorer 7.0 and newer
• Mozilla Firefox
• Google Chrome

Macintosh:

• Mozilla Firefox
• Safari
• Google Chrome

Other platforms:

• Mozilla Firefox
• Google Chrome

To manage the course tabs in Sakai,

Go to 'My Workspace' tab and click Preferences in the tool list.

Shift the course site(s) to the Active or Hidden box as desired and hit the 'Update Preferences' button at the bottom.

Faculty can submit a request to Barb Kerns via e-mail at brk@bradley.edu

Your site may need to be published. Sites are created as "Unpublished" to give Instructors time to add content prior to students having access. To make your site viewable and accessible by students, go to "Site Info -> Manage Access," check "Publish Site," and click "Update."

After you've logged into Sakai, your Sakai courses will be listed as tabs across the top of the Sakai window. If you are enrolled in more than four courses, there will be a "My Active Sites" tab to the right. This tab pops-up a drop down list of all the terms and their respective course sites that you are enrolled in. Also, please check with your professor if you are unsure of whether a Sakai site is available for their course.

Your course site is initially setup as unpublished. Once you have your site setup the way you want you can publish the site. To learn how to publish your site, click here.

Yes, students will be dropped within a 12 hour time frame. If they are added back into the site, any information associated with them will be added back again.

Yes. When students add a class, they are automatically added to the roster by the registrar. However, there is a delay of about 12 hours between the time the students are added to the roster and the time the Sakai database is updated to reflect those changes. Therefore, the students will generally have to wait until the next day to gain access to the class site.

Yes. Your student roster is automatically imported into your Sakai site.

If you are using Internet Explorer 8, you will need to disable Compatibility mode. You can toggle Compatibility mode in the browser using the icon next to the address bar.

Presently this problem also affects IE 6 and 7, but there is no solution of these versions yet.

A forum is not visible to site participants unless at least one topic is created.

Click the title of a Thread. When the View drop-down box is set to "Thread," you can read all the messages on the page and click "Mark All as Read" at the top of the page. Then click the "Next Thread" link to go immediately to the next thread without loading the main Topic page.

If the View drop-down box is set to View "Unread" messages, use the Previous Thread - Next Thread links at the top right to show only new messages. After reading, click the letter icon or "Mark All as Read" at the top of the page.

Alternatively, you can click the small black triangle next to the Thread title to display a threaded version of sub-posts. Click the letter icon next to the post to mark the post as "Read."

The Forum has a feature called "lock forum." Once you activate the lock, students can read postings but can no longer post.

To lock a forum:
1. Go to the forum you wish to lock and click on Topic Settings.
2. Scroll down the page to the LOCK FORUM option. By default the NO button is indicatd. Click on the YES button and the forum will now be locked.
3. Return to the message center and you should see a visual LOCK displayed.

Please note that the instructor,will still be able to post. However, students will not be able to post.

If the test is organized so that one question at a time is presented Sakai saves the progress as the user moves from one question to the next, i.e. clicks the "next" button to advance. When the connection is dropped, simply reconnect and refresh the page. Sakai will return the user to the next unanswered question.

Pasting text from Microsoft Word directly into the WYSIWYG editor may result in garbled output, even if the text appears correct in the editor. Instead, to insert formatted text from a Word document, click the Paste from Word icon, and paste using Ctrl-v or Command-v. For details, see Pasting from Microsoft Word.

Internet Explorer is currently the only browser that supports the spellcheck feature. To use spellcheck, you must first download and install the ieSpell extension from the ieSpell download page; you may only download ieSpell on a personal computer, not on a university-owned workstation.

To select an individual or specific individuals as e-mail recipients click the Roles link within the E-mail tool. If the individual(s) is a student, click the blue Student link. All students will be displayed with a check box next to their names, click the box next to the student(s) who will receive the e-mail. Repeat similar steps if the recipients are TA's, Instructors, Course Builders, etc.

The current version of Sakai requires the user to enter a subject before the e-mail is sent. The e-mail sent to students will have a subject line automatically generated by Sakai, the course title, as well as the subject listed when the e-mail is created. Provide a subject and the e-mail will be sent.

In Internet Explorer 8, if compatibility mode is off and there is already a page worth of content in the editor (scrollbar appears), this problem occurs. To fix this problem, compatibility mode must be enabled. Compatibility mode can be enabled in the browser by clicking the icon next to the address bar.

If one instructor creates pools in T&Q, they “own” that content and another instructor can’t see or access their pools so as to create assessments with them. The owner/creator must share the pools from T&Q to make them visible and usable by others. To do that, the pool owner/creator should do the following:

1. Go to Test & Quizzes, choose 'Question pool'.
2. From the list of question pools, navigate to the question pool that you want to share and click "Share" beneath the question pool title.
3. Sakai populates the question pool accessibility wizard with TA's and other Instructor in your course site.
4. Select the Instructor by checking on Grant Access Check-box next to that Instructor.
5. Click "Share" to finish the process.

There is a workaround to publish the question pool as an assessment and then letting access to the other Instructor.

Yes. Question pools are available to only those who create them and can be shared with other Instructors. This works for classes that has two or more Instructors. If an Instructor who is not part of a class would want to use the question pools created by another Instructor, with his/her permission, then the Instructor seeking the question pool should be added to the course site.

After this initial step, the Instructor who 'owns' the question pool,

1. Can go to Test & Quizzes, choose 'Question pool'.
2. From the list of question pools, navigate to the question pool that you want to share and click "Share" beneath the question pool title.
3. Sakai populates the question pool accessibility wizard with TA's and other Instructor in your course site.
4. Select the Instructor by checking on Grant Access Check-box next to that Instructor.
5. Click "Share" to finish the process.

You can import material from one Sakai course to another. For instructions on how to import see Import under Help Topics or click here: http://sakaihelp.bradley.edu/topics/import

To add any new users to your course or project site, go to "Site Info -> Add Participants." In the "Official Email Address or Username(s)" field, supply the BUnetID of the user you want to add to your site.  The BUnetID will be the same as the user's email without "@mail.bradley.edu." Make sure you choose the correct role in the following screen for each participant.

In Tests & Quizzes, assessments are graded anonymously by default. This feature is intended to prevent grading bias based on a grader's past experience with a particular student. This setting cannot be changed in a published assessment.

Note: Before publishing an assessment, in the Pending Assessment, an instructor can click Settings then Grading to choose the option that allows student identities to be seen by graders.

When grading a student's submitted work in Assignments, an instructor can permit the student to resend a revised version. When the student views the returned assignment, he will have the option of resending a new or edited version.

To provide this opportunity to an individual student, check the "Allow Resubmission" box at the bottom of the grading page for the assignment.

Or

To provide this opportunity to all the participants, check the "Allow Resubmission" box while creating a New Assignment.

Using the Assignments tool, instructors have two grading options to record and post assignment grades in Sakai. Add to Gradebook lets you grade each student's work only from the Assignment tool. Associate with existing Gradebook entry lets you enter grades using either the Assignment or Gradebook tool.

There is a small button that appears to the left of the name of each tool. This button, represented by a curled arrow, is called the reset button. Use the reset button to return to the starting point of any tool, as if you had entered the tool in a new session.

Please clear your internet browser's history, cookies and cache. Once you have done this you will need to quit your browser completely and restart it.

Sakai is designed to function independently of your browser buttons. If you change your mind about a task, such as posting a syllabus or a resource item, you need to rely on the buttons within Sakai to cancel the action instead of your browser's Back button. Choose the "Cancel" button at the bottom of the screen: or the "Reset" button at the top left of the screen:

Yes. If you 'own' both the source and the destination course sites, you have the option to import material from either of the course sites. For more information on this, please click here.

Yes, if the Mailtool is available in the site. This tool gives students the ability to easily create an e-mail and send it to select individual students or groups of students.

For more information on adding the Mailtool, click here .

Yes. You can use 'Mailtool' for sending email to the entire class, an individual student or for particular groups within your course site. To use the Mailtool effectively, please wait till the Mailtool loads completely on your browser.

Alternatively, you can select a tool called Email archive. This tool provides an email address for the site. Any email sent to that address is automatically sent to every participant of the site. In addition, a copy of the email message is archived on the site. For more information on using or setting up this tool, please see the document called “Email Archive”. For more information on using or setting up this tool see the document called Email Archive.

Yes. Your students are automatically added to the Gradebook Tool

If you choose to “Add Assignment to Gradebook” (for grading through the Assignments tool) and realize that you actually want to “Associate with and Existing Gradebook Entry” (for grading through the Gradebook tool) you can do this by editing the settings on the assignment to reflect this change.

It will save the student submissions and allow you to grade within the Gradebook tool instead of grading within the assignments tool.

You may choose “Associate with Existing Gradebook Entry” under "Grading" in the assignment's settings. (Add a Gradebook entry to your grade book first and then choose to link the assignment to the entry).

Yes. Sakai allows you to add multiple documents at a time via the Sakai resources tool. Sakai also allows users to drag and drop complete folders or multiple files at a time by using a new technology called WEBDAV.
For more information on how to drag and drop files into your Sakai site, if you are using a PC, please click here.
If you are using Windows 7, follow this link and it will bring you to a tutorial that will lead you through the necessary steps to set up WebDav.
Mac users click here .

No. Course sites in Sakai are set up once a student registers for the course. This process is dependent on the enrollment of students for a particular class and it takes about 24 hours for Sakai to reflect it.

When you first log in to Sakai, you are in a space called “My Workspace”. This is your individual online workspace, where you can store private documents (in Resources), set preferences, create a profile, and maintain a private calendar, among other things.

Windows:

• Internet Explorer 7.0 and newer
• Mozilla Firefox
• Google Chrome

Macintosh:

• Mozilla Firefox
• Safari
• Google Chrome

Other platforms:

• Mozilla Firefox
• Google Chrome

You must have an active Bradley BUnetID or a guest account in order to login to Sakai.

The Sakai login page will be frequently updated with Tutorials, Quick Start Guides as well as scheduled instructor-led training. Click the below link to go to Sakai's login page and look under Message of the Day:

https://sakai.bradley.edu/portal