New Course Management Tools for UC Davis Faculty (Sakai & Breeze) Kirk Alexander Andy Jones October 14, 2005

Goals Solve: MyUCDavis is increasingly hard to support, extend and scale Bring UCD CMS into the 21st Century & position for growth, extension, use of standards Manage an easy and happy transition of existing users

What is Sakai? Sakai is intended to be an enterprise application - centrally deployed as the campus-wide or state-wide deployments Sakai is intended to both solve the “well-known” collaborative and learning requirements as well as enable significant innovation in collaboration and learning. Developed as a joint project among Michigan, Indiana, Stanford and MIT Sakai will initially provide upgrade to just the MyUCDavis Course Management System

MyUCDavis CMS V. 2.0 History Sakai Project Launched January 2004 Sakai Educational Partners Program Launched Feb 2004 Sakai chosen for new CMS/LMS in Vet Med/SOM Dec CCFIT Recommended installation of new CMS for full Campus, chose Sakai June, 2005 Vice Provost for IET formed Oversight Committee and initiated activity for Campus migration to Sakai to complement Veterinary Medicine and School of Medicine Now: Collaborative effort involving IET/Mediaworks, Veterinary Medicine, School of Medicine

Recent Steps IET Middleware working on connections to Banner and other course data 2 new programming positions posted (Sakai Architect and Tools Programmer) SCORM player being developed in Mediaworks Trainer PD being classified by HR Hired a consultant to guide change management

Features Over View

Contributed Tools Roster Tool - This is like a super version of the Profile tool - it is intended for Student use (access role) and not just instructor use. It has FERPA support and is well integrated with the profile tool. RWiki - This is a well integrated Wiki that looks exactly like a Sakai tool and based on the Radeox engine. A number of sites have started using RWiki. Twin Peaks - Library Integration for adding content, assignment links Digital Repositories "Set User" Tool - This is the very simple admin tool to assume a user's identity. SakaiScript - This is Steven Githens web services..

Sakai Timeline Two Year Implementation Plan (Ideal Case) Project Phases: –Discovery (now/Fall) –Small Pilot (Winter 2006), –Preview (Spring/Summer 2006), –Transition (Fall 2006-Summer 2007) Retire current MyUCDavis CMS Fall 2007

Sakai Pilot Scenarios Test individual tools in class, with TA’s or on your own (e.g. Quiz Tool, Melete, Discussion Board, Wiki, SCORM Player, Calendar) Course Pilot (especially in Spring, 2006)

How you can Help Contact: Kirk Alexander Volunteer (or identify faculty) for pilot/preview phases Discuss ideas on how Sakai can help in your department Discuss MyUCDavis uses in your department and related training transition needs Discuss special infrastructure needs in your department Volunteer for one of the committees or as a Pilot

Faculty Work Groups MyUCDavis CMS Conversion Advisors –Designing the desired support for faculty changeover to Sakai Faculty Mentoring Faculty Program TRC MyUCDavis Faculty Support (Academic Year Led by Andy Jones) Pilot Participants

Faculty Support ITExpress (will support Sakai) ETPartners –New Departmental Partnerships and Office Visit suport TRC - New Trainer will work with Mediaworks this year Pilot Users will get more personal assistance Summer Institute on Technology in Teaching (SITT)

Macromedia Breeze Presenter: –Streamed Powerpoint –Optional Audio –Optional Quiz elements Breeze Live –Live, online Office Hours –Discussion with remote groups –Live Collaboration Classroom Powerpoint Broadcasts

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