ThomsonNOW on Sakai Dan Rinn Thomson Higher Education Manager, Technology Partnership Marketing

What is “ThomsonNOW on Sakai”? Integration --- hot topic at this Sakai conference Text specific content within Sakai An engine within Sakai providing easy-to-assign textbook specific homework and quizzes Features: –Student single-sign-on –Results flow to Sakai gradebook –Ready to use content

Agenda Case Study: Wake Tech / Goals and Outcomes A closer look at ThomsonNOW on Sakai Next steps QA

Jacqui Fields Pre-Curriculum Online Instructor Wake Technical Community College, Raleigh, NC Passionate Sakai user

ThomsonNOW on Sakai Case Study Jacqui has taught at Wake Tech for about 7 years taught online for about 5 years Her online courses are Math 070 (Introductory Algebra) and Math 080 (Intermediate Algebra).

My needs are pretty simple: I want an integrated product quality course materials (math content) very user friendly delivery method. delivery method easily adapted to all disciplines easily managed a less expensive option.

Jacqui’s Tactics: I used ThomsonNOW for the math piece of the course (tutorials, homework, and quizzes). My students completed roughly 50 tutorials, 50 homework assignments, and 13 quizzes within ThomsonNOW. I used Sakai to deliver announcements, post lab assignments, and post some grades.

…Tactics My students had 16 lab assignments that they accessed through Sakai. I posted those 16 grades in the Sakai gradebook along with the grades from 3 tests and a final exam.

Next Steps… What I would like to see next is partial integration where my students would not have to go to 2 different websites for course information. A single sign-on would allow students to go to one website and see the Sakai shell of their course and then click on a link to access the tutorials, homework, quizzes, etc. Ultimately, I would like a total integration between the two products which include a gradebook integration.

Meeting Jacqui’s course goals: 2006: Single sign-on 2007: Integrated gradebook Partners: –Pilot schools –Unicon / OLI –you

Go to:

Quiz is ready to take…

…student results move to the Sakai gradebook…

…assigning pre-built homework sets…

…pdf of complete textbook…

Go to: Your own ThomsonNOW account

Questions?