Comments on: Why I Hate Sakai http://tar.weatherson.org/2008/04/12/why-i-hate-sakai/ Donate to Oxfam: <a>Australian link</a>, <a>New Zealand link</a>, <a>UK link</a>, <a>US link</a>. Thu, 02 Sep 2010 03:50:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Charles Stewart http://tar.weatherson.org/2008/04/12/why-i-hate-sakai/comment-page-1/#comment-5305 Charles Stewart Tue, 15 Apr 2008 11:33:13 +0000 http://tar.weatherson.org/2008/04/12/why-i-hate-sakai/#comment-5305 You might want to consider looking at Moodle, which is a more regular open source project. Andreas Wittke, who works for Germany's oncampus (a company offering teaching and consulting around web based learning, mainly tilted at vocational education and univesrities), gave a presentation about a year ago titled "Why German Universities Choose Moodle Instead of Sakai", which has a fair bit to say about Sakai's deficits when it comes to usability for teachers and students. My wife, who has used both Blackboard & Moodle, finds Moodle to have the usability edge here as well. The slides for Wittke's talk are at URL: http://www.oncampus.de/fileadmin/inhalte/ref/pdf/2007-06-11-moodle-vs-sakai-en.pdf You might want to consider looking at Moodle, which is a more regular open source project. Andreas Wittke, who works for Germany’s oncampus (a company offering teaching and consulting around web based learning, mainly tilted at vocational education and univesrities), gave a presentation about a year ago titled “Why German Universities Choose Moodle Instead of Sakai”, which has a fair bit to say about Sakai’s deficits when it comes to usability for teachers and students. My wife, who has used both Blackboard & Moodle, finds Moodle to have the usability edge here as well.

The slides for Wittke’s talk are at URL:
http://www.oncampus.de/fileadmin/inhalte/ref/pdf/2007-06-11-moodle-vs-sakai-en.pdf

]]> By: ADHR http://tar.weatherson.org/2008/04/12/why-i-hate-sakai/comment-page-1/#comment-5303 ADHR Sat, 12 Apr 2008 23:16:42 +0000 http://tar.weatherson.org/2008/04/12/why-i-hate-sakai/#comment-5303 Just FYI, regarding Blackboard, the configuration I've been using at Ryerson allows grades to be entered for students all at once, rather than opening new tabs for each student. I go through Control Panel --> Gradebook Views --> View by Item, and then click through to the list of all user's grades for that item. Not sure if that'll work for you, given the way Cornell has things set up, but it might make your life less painful. Just FYI, regarding Blackboard, the configuration I’ve been using at Ryerson allows grades to be entered for students all at once, rather than opening new tabs for each student. I go through Control Panel —> Gradebook Views —> View by Item, and then click through to the list of all user’s grades for that item. Not sure if that’ll work for you, given the way Cornell has things set up, but it might make your life less painful.

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