transitions and extensions – what schools have learned from sakai migrations
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Transitions and Extensions:
What Schools Have Learned from Sakai Migrations
Jerry [email protected]
Andrew [email protected]
Brian [email protected]
FIRST STEPS WITH SAKAI
Jerry Calleson, [email protected] Andrew Ochs, [email protected] of Public Health Information Technology Division
Transitions and Extensions
Fully Online Courses - Goals
• Replicate Blackboard functionality• Ease of navigation• Balance clean design with ability for faculty to
maintain and update
Content Migration and Organization
• Did not use Migrate Content Toolo Resulting structure can be difficult to navigate
• Created HTML template for lesson contento Preserve lesson structure in Blackboardo Lesson elements displayed ona single pageo Copy/Paste from Blackboard
• Assignments and tests no longer linked directly from the lesson page
Blackboard Navigation
Sakai Navigation
Blackboard Lesson
Sakai Lesson
Transition Web Reference
How Has it Worked?
• In short – very well• Minor issues:
oWYSIWYG editor can be difficult to use• Small window• Pasting from Word
o Not easy for instructors to upload documents on the fly and link them from the html lesson page
o Anticipate some problems with broken links when courses are copied
THE ANATOMY OF TRANSITION STRATEGY
Rob Moore, Instructional Technology Developer, [email protected] School of Government Information Technology Division
Transitions and Extensions
It’s Time to Make a Move
• 2 Year MPA Program• Needed to move from
Blackboard to Sakai Fall 2011 so that students would have one LMS through entire program
Migrating from Blackboard to Sakai
1. Instructors can export documents and external links from Blackboard to zip file2. ITS created a Sakai tool that allowed for the import of exported document zip file into Sakai Resources folder
Consistency Across MPA Courses
Typical instructor was using Blackboard for content organization and some were using Assignments
Consistency Across MPA Courses
Support and Training
1. Created modules to introduce faculty to Sakai and what changes were made2. Created a tutorials page for each faculty which had the module videos as well as general Sakai tutorials3. Added all faculty members that were migrated to Sakai project Site to aid in communication and posting of new tutorials
EXTENDING SAKAI BEYOND THE CLASSROOM
Brian Moynihan, Project Manager, [email protected] School of Medicine, Office of Medical Education
Transitions and Extensions
Overview
• Use of Project Sites• Website and File Hosting• Extending the Calendar• Repurposing Data• Future Directions
Project Sites
• Potentially a replacement for Sharepointo Allows for guest userso Document storage
• Using the browser• Drag and Drop (using WebDav)
o Communication toolso Calendaro HTML pages/wiki easy to create & modify
• Exampleso Admissions Committees, branch campuses, research
groups, reading groups, steering committees…
Website and File Hosting
• Hosting full websites (including site archives)• Hosting files that are open to the world, open
a set group, or private• Better than a flash drive!
Sakai Calendar (List View)
Calendar Export (ical/webcal)
Viewing/Overlaying Calendars
Repurposing Exported Calendar Data
Using Export Data for External Applications
Future Directions
• LMS as a potential gold mine of datao Student usageo Grade analyticso Recommendation Engineo Search
• Hoping for access to new exports of data