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Sakai Tutorials

Tutorials for using the SAKAI course management system.

Sakai Tutorials


UCLA has upgraded to Sakai 2.1.1 for Spring Quarter 2006. Tutorials will be updated on an ongoing basis and the version number is noted by the tutorial title.

The video tutorials require a free Flash Player available at: http://www.macromedia.com/software/flashplayer/

The printable tutorials require a free Adobe Acrobat Reader available at: http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html


General Sakai Tutorials
Resources Tool
Announcements Tool Schedule Tool Syllabus Tool
Dropbox Tool
Discussion Tool
Note: this is for the "Discussion" tool, not the "Discussion and Private Messages" tool
Attachments
Note: Attachments are used in multiple tools
Chat Room Tool

Past Versions of Tutorials

Browsers Supported by Sakai:

From Sakaipedia: http://bugs.sakaiproject.org/confluence/display/ENC/Browser+Support
Last updated 28-March-2006

Windows
Internet Explorer 5.5 and newer
Netscape 7.1 and newer
Mozilla Firefox
Macintosh Netscape 7.1 and newer
Mozilla Firefox
Other platforms
 Netscape 7.1 and newer
Mozilla Firefox

Some functions in Sakai will not work well or will not work at all in the following browsers. (The WYSIWYG editor will not work at all):

Macintosh Safari
Macintosh Internet Explorer
Camino 0.7
Netscape 7.0 or older
Opera

For free browser downloads, please visit:


Miscellaneous Sakai Tech Notes

This section will be continuously updated to include technical notes and workarounds for using Sakai.

Accented or Foreign Characters Warning

There is a known bug in Sakai using accented characters in any title in any tool. For instance, if the title of an Assignment or a Resource contains an accented character, it will cause problems. For example, the characters á, ø, ñ, ü, etc will cause issues.

However, these characters can be used in the body of an Assignment or within an uploaded document. If you have any questions, please send an email to: support@sakai.ucla.edu

[Applies to Sakai 2.0.1]

Long File Names and Paths

We have discovered another bug in Sakai wherein uploading files with very long file names or file paths can cause instability in the system. Until this issue can be resolved, please try to keep uploaded resource names brief. It may also ease the situation to upload the file from "My Documents" instead of a folder buried deep within other folders.

[Applies to Sakai 2.0.1]