Student Work, Activities, & Assessments

Using Sakai 20 - Student Work, Activities, & Assessments

• Sakai Assignments

• Sakai Dropbox for Collecting Student Work

• Sakai Tests & Quizzes

• Sakai Gradebook

• Other Tools you can use within Sakai

 

 

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Sakai Assignments

The Sakai Assignments tool allows instructors to create, distribute, collect, and grade online assignments. Assignments are typically private; student submissions are not visible to other users of the site. However, the instructor has the option to enable peer evaluation of assignments if desired. Assignments may be submitted via file upload or by typing directly in to Sakai, depending on your preference.

• The Assignments tool is not part of our default tool set. Edit the Tools to add it. 

• New Assignments Grading Tool

• Longsight Documentation about the Assignments Tool

  • Creating & Collecting Assignments

  • Peer Feedback

  • Rubrics

 

 

 

 

Sakai Dropbox for Collecting Student Work

The Dropbox is a useful tool to collect student work. It automatically creates individual folders for each student in the Sakai site. Students can submit work by uploading files to these folders. Dropbox folders are private. Student submissions are not visible to other users of the site. If you use the Dropbox, you will create and distribute the assignment tasks through other channels, such as Forums, Announcements, or your syllabus

• The Dropbox tool is not part of our default tool set. Edit the Tools to add it. 

 

 

 

 

Sakai Tests & Quizzes

The Sakai Tests & Quizzes tool allows instructors to create, distribute, and grade online tests, quizzes, and surveys. Not all tests need to be graded, and we have a number of faculty using this tool for practice and self-assessment. Many preset question types are available, including file upload, and you can add time limits. Sakai also allows for easy exceptions to allow for accommodations and other accessibility needs.

• The Tests & Quizzes tool is not part of our default tool set. Edit the Tools to add it. 

• Longsight Documentation about the Tests & Quizzes Tool

• Guidelines for taking Tests & Quizzes  (Student Tech Tips)

• Feedback in Sakai - (Student Tech Tips)

 

 

 

 

Sakai Gradebook

• The Gradebook tool is not part of our default tool set. Edit the Tools to add it. 

• Longsight Documentation about the Gradebook Tool

 

 

 

 

 

 

Other Tools you can use within Sakai

• Perusall - Perusall is an e-reader platform that allows students and faculty to annotate the assigned readings and engage the reading material in a style akin to social media posting. Students can write full comments, “like” comments, use hashtags, link URLs to their comments and even use emoticons.

• VoiceThread - VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to navigate slides and leave comments in 5 ways - using voice (with a mic or telephone), text, audio file, or video (via a webcam).

• Hypothes.is - Hypothesis is a social annotation tool. Using Hypothesis, instructors can make PDFs and websites annotatable. Students can annotate course readings collaboratively, sharing comments and replying to peer's comments. Instructors can also create annotation assignments.

• Piazza - Piazza is an instructional system which allows students to ask questions in a forum-type format. Instructors are able to moderate the discussion, along with endorsing accurate answers.