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Transitions and Extensions – What Schools Have Learned from Sakai Migrations
- 1. Transitions and Extensions: What Schools Have Learned from Sakai Migrations Jerry Calleson Andrew Ochs Rob Moore Brian Moynihan jerry_calleson@unc.edu andrew_ochs@unc.edu robmoore@unc.edu moynihan@med.unc.edu
- 2. Transitions and Extensions Jerry Calleson, jerry_calleson@unc.edu Andrew Ochs, andrew_ochs@unc.edu School of Public Health Information Technology Division FIRST STEPS WITH SAKAI
- 3. Fully Online Courses - Goals • Replicate Blackboard functionality • Ease of navigation • Balance clean design with ability for faculty to maintain and update
- 4. Content Migration and Organization • Did not use Migrate Content Tool o Resulting structure can be difficult to navigate • Created HTML template for lesson content o Preserve lesson structure in Blackboard o Lesson elements displayed ona single page o Copy/Paste from Blackboard • Assignments and tests no longer linked directly from the lesson page
- 8. Sakai Lesson
- 10. How Has it Worked? • In short – very well • Minor issues: o WYSIWYG editor can be difficult to use • Small window • Pasting from Word o Not easy for instructors to upload documents on the fly and link them from the html lesson page o Anticipate some problems with broken links when courses are copied
- 11. Transitions and Extensions Rob Moore, Instructional Technology Developer, robmoore@unc.edu School of Government Information Technology Division THE ANATOMY OF TRANSITION STRATEGY
- 12. It’s Time to Make a Move • 2 Year MPA Program • Needed to move from Blackboard to Sakai Fall 2011 so that students would have one LMS through entire program
- 13. Migrating from Blackboard to Sakai 2. ITS created a Sakai tool that allowed for the import from 1. Instructors can export documents and external linksof exported document zip Blackboard to zip file file into Sakai Resources folder
- 14. Consistency Across MPA Courses Typical instructor was using Blackboard for content organization and some were using Assignments
- 15. Consistency Across MPA Courses
- 16. Support and Training 3. 2. Added all faculty to introduce faculty to Sakai andSakai project 1. Created modules members that were migrated hadwhatmodule a tutorials page for each faculty which to the changes Site to as in videos aidwell as general Sakai tutorials were made communication and posting of new tutorials
- 17. Transitions and Extensions Brian Moynihan, Project Manager, moynihan@med.unc.edu School of Medicine, Office of Medical Education EXTENDING SAKAI BEYOND THE CLASSROOM
- 18. Overview • Use of Project Sites • Website and File Hosting • Extending the Calendar • Repurposing Data • Future Directions
- 19. Project Sites • Potentially a replacement for Sharepoint o Allows for guest users o Document storage • Using the browser • Drag and Drop (using WebDav) o Communication tools o Calendar o HTML pages/wiki easy to create & modify • Examples o Admissions Committees, branch campuses, research groups, reading groups, steering committees…
- 20. Website and File Hosting • Hosting full websites (including site archives) • Hosting files that are open to the world, open a set group, or private • Better than a flash drive!
- 21. Sakai Calendar (List View)
- 24. Repurposing Exported Calendar Data
- 25. Using Export Data for External Applications
- 26. Future Directions • LMS as a potential gold mine of data o Student usage o Grade analytics o Recommendation Engine o Search • Hoping for access to new exports of data
- 27. Contact Information Jerry Calleson jerry_calleson@unc.edu Andrew Ochs andrew_ochs@unc.edu Rob Moore robmoore@unc.edu Brian Moynihan moynihan@med.unc.edu