This presentation discusses using Sakai to collaborate across large groups and multiple sections of a course at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It describes how Sakai was used to organize Spanish language courses with over 40 sections and 35 instructors each semester, providing a centralized location for announcements, assignments, calendars, forums, grades, and resources. Key benefits included granular access controls that allowed content to be tailored to specific sections or groups, and tools for coordinators to manage common content and monitor grades across sections.

1. Session 2.81 Collaborating Across Sections and Large Groups with Sakai February 16, 2011 Dr. Anastacia Kohl & Rob Moore University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

3. Faculty coordinator of Spanish 203 since Fall 2006 which has 40+ sections and 35+ instructors per semester

5. Managed the Foreign Language Sakai Pilot which moved over 4k undergraduates and over 60 instructors to Sakai

7. Sakai Experience What is your experience with Sakai? I’ve never heard of it I’ve heard of it but haven't ever used it I’m currently teaching with it I’m going to start teaching with it

8. A typical UNC course using Blackboard

9. How ROML used Blackboard

10. Multi-Section Courses using Blackboard at UNC

11. Communication and Organizational Breakdown

12. Motivation for Change Spanish 105, 203, 204 have between 25 – 43 sectionseach That’s over 400 students in each of these courses, more than would fit in one of the largest lecture halls at UNC Photo taken from http://hotline.unc.edu

13. Features of the Foreign Language Sakai Pilot

14. Problem solved – Sakai Umbrella course

15. Convenience of each course having a tab

17. Assignments

18. Calendar

19. Forums (both tools)

20. Gradebook

21. Messages

22. Resources

23. Tests & QuizzesGroup and Section-Aware Tools in Sakai The following tools allow for filtering of content: This is the most significant difference between Blackboard and Sakai

24. Granular control for information and content

25. Granular control for information and content

26. Resources Tool

27. Creating Site Content in Sakai WYSIWYG HTML Editor Word Documents Embedding Videos or external content

28. Creating HTML Pages

29. Creating HTML Pages

30. Managing Resources

31. Managing Resources

32. Managing Resources

33. Messages Tool

34. Organizing Content with Modules Tool

35. Organizing Content with Modules Tool

36. Discussion Forums

37. Discussion Forums

38. Benefits for Coordinators

39. Coordinator controls common content

40. Coordinator able to monitor grades

41. Benefits for Instructors

42. Benefits for Students

43. Lessons Learned Take full advantage of training and resources Find a different way to present the change to stakeholders Take advantage of flexibility of site design to customize the course site Remember that technology sometimes fails and go with the flow

44. Contact Us Dr. Anastacia Kohl kohl@email.unc.edu Rob Moore robmoore@unc.edu