1. Move Toward Smokeless China Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications Institute of Cyber Education Technology

2. 2 Outline  Project Introduction  Present Achievement  Problem Encountered  Questions to Dr. Korcuska  Suggestions to Sakai

3. 3 Project Introduction  Move Toward Smokeless China –A part of ‘Global Tobacco Control’ which is supported by Bloomberg Foundation. This project aims to prevent passive smoking. –In this project, ICET is mainly in charge of developing an on-line training system based on Sakai, its main function is to provide a tobacco control training platform for Chinese disease control staffs.

4. 4 Present Achievement  Almost finish the localization of students related pages.localization  Almost finish the integration of Sakai and special courseware which is developed by Communication University of China.  Have designed a proper page style  Have fixed some bugs which are caused by the localization  Basically finish the research of the use of OSP

5. 5 Problem Encountered  After the translation, due to the improper default date format, the event link in Calendar became unavailable.  Due to the use of method ‘escapeHtml’, when we input Chinese words in the Search and OSP tools, the characters became to be unrecognizable.escapeHtml  OSP tools seems do not have the function of auto-recording the students’ learning activities.  In the OSP tools, after we have submitted the information in the evaluation matrix, and the evaluator also can see these things in the evaluation lists, but he cannot click to open it.evaluation

6. 6 Problem Encountered  In Windows+Mysql environment, when we enabled the search tool, the database connections pool is exhausted, and we cannot get any result from the search tool.  In the message and calendar tools, some pages do not use the properties file, during the process of localization, we have to change the code of Sakai.message calendar  In IE, when we use the ‘page order’ to rename other tools in Chinese, the characters became unrecognizable.

7. 7 Questions to Dr. Korcuska  Does Sakai have any tools which can record the learning activities (such as the time people logging in, the number of threads the student have submitted, the tests students have completed and so on), or there have any other third part tools can provide such functions?  Why it contains all the three technologies velocity, JSF and RSF in view layer? What is the future direction?  Why the search results are limited in ‘Chat’, ’Message’ and ‘Discussion’?

8. 8 Questions to Dr. Korcuska  Some parts in Sakai have became very complicated, some java files have more than 10000 lines. What will the Sakai foundation do to solve this problem, and how will you keep releasing the new version?

9. 9 Suggestions to Sakai  The start of Sakai costs a long time, especially when we deploy it in our windows environment.  The Sakai jira bug site seems not being well maintained, some of the bugs cannot get the immediate response.