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Faculty Guide

Gradebook Basics

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Sakai Basic Navigation 3
- What is Home?
- What is Site Navigation?
- What is Worksite Setup?
Create a Course Site 3
- How do I create a new course or project site?
- How do I navigate within a site?
- What does Unpublished Site mean?
Add Participants to a Site 6
- How do I add participants to my site?
- How do I add a class roster?
- How do I delete a class roster?
- How do I create groups?
- How do I use groups?
- How do I add a librarian or research guide to my course site?
Guest Accounts and Sakai 1
- How do guests create an account?
Sakai and DukeHub 2
- How does Sakai use DukeHub to manage course rosters?
- How do I submit my final grades to DukeHub from Sakai?
Publish Your Course 1
- How do I control site access?
Customize Your Site's Homepage 2
- What is Overview?
- How do I edit the Overview site information display?
Add or Remove Tools to Your Site 1
- How do I add tools to my site?
Rename or Reorder Tools in the Menu 1
- How do I rearrange or rename the items in the Tool Menu?
Add Content to Your Course 7
- What is the Resources tool?
- How do I navigate the Resources tool?
- How do I create folders?
- How do I upload files to Resources?
- How do I move a file or folder within Resources in the same site?
- How do I copy a file or folder within Resources in the same site?
- How do I reorder files or folders within Resources?
Communicate With Your Students 3
- What is the Email tool?
- What is the Announcements tool?
- What is the Chat Room tool?
Set Up a Discussion Forum 6
- What is the Forums tool?
- What is the Forums tool?
- How do I add a new topic?
- How do I organize forums and topics?
- How do I post to a forum topic?
- How do I reply to a forum post (i.e. conversation)?
Learn About the Rich-Text Editor 6
- What is the Rich-Text Editor?
- How do I create a link to a Resources item in a text box?
- How do I embed an image in a text box?
- How do I embed a YouTube video in a text box?
- How do I paste text from a Microsoft Word document to a text box?
- How do I embed an mp3 audio in a text box?
Creating Accessible Content 11
- Accessibility Information
- What does it mean to make content accessible?
- What are some guidelines for making content accessible?
- How can I make images more accessible?
- How can I make tables more accessible?
- How can I make videos and audio files more accessible?
- How can I make links accessible?
- How can I make lists of items accessible?
- How can choices in background and text color affect accessibility?
- How can I structure my document to make it more accessible?
- Why should I use paragraph breaks in my document?
Create Online Assessments 13
- What is the Assignments tool?
- How do I add an assignment?
- How do students submit an assignment?
- How do I grade an assignment?
- How do I release assignment grades?
- How do students view their assignment feedback?
- What is the Tests & Quizzes tool?
- How do I create an assessment in Tests and Quizzes?
- How do I create a new question (with the assessment builder)?
- What are the Availability and Submissions options for an assessment?
- How do I give specific students different time or date settings for an assessment?
- How do I publish an assessment (i.e. test or quiz)?
- How do I grade Tests & Quizzes?
Online Testing Guidelines 1
- How can students avoid problems when taking online tests?
Gradebook Basics 8
- What is Gradebook?
- How do I view and organize information in Gradebook?
- How do I set up my Gradebook?
- How do I add items to the Gradebook?
- How do I enter and/or edit grades in Gradebook?
- How does extra credit work in Gradebook?
- How do I set up a Gradebook with categories for organization and/or dropping grades?
- How do I set up a Gradebook with categories and weighting?
E-reserves in Sakai 1
- How do my Library E-reserves work in Sakai?
Using Piazza 1
- How do I use Piazza with Sakai?
Using Warpwire 1
- How do I use Warpwire with Sakai?
Using Zoom Meetings 1
- Using Zoom Meetings

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Sakai Basics
Faculty Guide
Student Guide
Teaching Assistant Guide
Assessments and Grading
Sakai Complete User Guide

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