The instructions below will show one how to give TAs Gradebook Access in Sakai. Steps: In our current version of Sakai, there is a known bug that requires you to add your TA's along with all of the students in your course to a 'group' within your Sakai site. To do this, navigate to the 'Site Info' tab on the left-hand side tool menu, then select the 'Manage Groups' tab. Select the 'Create New Group' button. Name your group, then scroll down to select group membership. Select the 'Role: Student' and the TA you're granting Gradebook permissions to and click on the left arrow, then select the 'Add' button the create the group. Navigate to Gradebook on the left-hand side tool menu, then select the 'Permissions' button within the central tool menu. Select the grader you wish to give Gradebook access to from the drop down menu, then hit 'Save Changes' at the bottom of the page to finalize this process. To add TA's to a Sakai course site, please see the Adding TA's to a Sakai Course Site article. To add TA's to a section, please see the Adding TA's to a Section article.

Announcements are displayed in several locations. You can view them from Home, from an individual course or project site, or from the Announcements tool. Viewing announcements in Home When you are logged in to Home, you will see your Recent Announcements displayed there. Your Recent Announcements in this location will show all announcements from all sites in which you are enrolled. Click on the announcement subject. View announcement details. Viewing announcements within a course or project site. When you enter a given course or project site, your Recent Announcements for that site only will display on the site Overview page. Click on the announcement subject. View announcement details. Viewing announcements via the Announcements tool. You may also view your announcements by selecting the Announcements tool in the Tool Menu from Home, or from within an individual course or project site. Note: Remember that Home will display announcements from all courses. Click on the announcement subject. View announcement details.

Instructors can add subpages to a top-level Lessons page. A top-level Lessons page is a Lessons page that is listed by name in the Tool Menu. Subpages are connected to top-level Lessons pages by a link or a button. Note: Subpages are added to whatever page the Add Content / Add Subpage function is accessed from. To add multiple subpages to a top-level page, make sure you access the Add Content / Add Subpage function from the original top-level Lessons page and not from a subpage. Go to Lessons. Click on the Lessons page title in the Tool Menu to display the page. Click Add Content, then Add Subpage. From the Add Content drop-down menu, select Add Subpage. Enter the subpage information. Enter a title. Click the Choose Existing Page link to select from the index of existing pages in the site. (Optional) Select the Next page option if desired. Select the Show as button rather than link option if desired. Click Create. View subpage. The new subpage contains the default Lessons page information. Clicking on the Back button takes the user back to the top-level page. View top-level Lessons page with link to subpage. To edit the title and properties of a subpage: (Optional) Click on the Settings icon. The Settings icon is a gear-shaped icon located on the top left of the subpage. Edit the title and properties of the subpage as needed. The title of the subpage can be edited in the Page Title box. Check Hide this page from users to not allow students to access the subpage. Check Hide page until to allow access to the subpage at a particular date and tie. Check Create Gradebook item to automatically create an item in the gradebook when the page (and any required items on it) is completed. Click Save when finished.

Instructors can content packaged in a zip file to a Lessons page. This is useful if you have content that is pre-packaged as a self-contained archive, such as content objects created using Camtasia, Wimba Create, Articulate, or other content authoring tools. Go to Lessons. Click on the Lessons page title in the Tool Menu to display the page. Click Add Content, then Upload content in ZIP file. From the Add Content drop-down menu, select Upload content in ZIP file. Enter an item name and select the file. Enter an Item Name. The item name is the text that will appear on the Lessons page as a link to the zipped content. Click Choose Files to browse for the item on your computer and upload it. Alternately, you may click the Or select existing files from Resources to select a file that has already been uploaded to your site. Verify that the selected file is correct, and click Save. The filename of the selected zip file will display. If this is correct, click Save to add the item to Lessons. The zip content will display. Clicking on the item link from the Lessons page should launch the index page from your zip file package. If you have difficulty finding it on the Lessons page, it may be in your resources folder.

While you can upload your syllabus to the “Resources” tool of your site, Sakai has a designated “Syllabus” tool that is by default added to course sites. You can directly add syllabus content (perhaps copy-pasted from a syllabus document) and/or attach documents within the tool. Step 1: Navigate to the “Syllabus” tool in the left-hand side menu. Select the “Add Item” button in the top menu.  Step 2: Title the content as appropriate. If you would like to directly add your syllabus content into the Sakai site, you may add or copy-paste material into the “Content” body. If your material is ready for students to view, hit the “Add and Publish” option. If you would like to continue editing, select the “Add” button. Step 3: If you would like to add an attached document (perhaps you only want to do this and not add content directly), you may do so now via the Add attachments function Step 4: If you did not Add and Publish your syllabus content after initially adding it, it will stay hidden from your students until you publish it. You can tell if syllabus content is unpublished if it has “DRAFT” in front of the name and if the eye icon to the right of the title is crossed through. Select this eye icon to publish the content. The DRAFT will disappear and the eye icon will no longer be crossed through- students will now be able to access your syllabus content.

Step 1: Navigate to the “Resources” tab in the left-hand side menu. Then click on the “Actions” drop down menu within the tool, and select “Upload Files.” Step 2: Drag and drop files and folders from your desktop (or click in the file loading window to open a file browser.) Multiple files may be uploaded at once. Folders containing sub-folders can be compressed and uploaded as zipped folders and then expanded within Sakai. Note the options for file visibility and whether or not you’d like site members to be notified of the file upload. Hit the “Continue” button to finalize uploading the files.

Step 1: Click on the “Sites” drawer tab in the upper right hand corner Step 2: Begin typing the semester the course sites you’re hoping to add belong to (e.g. “Fa19, Sp20.”) As you see sites you’d like to add to your favorites menu, click on the outline of the star to the left of each site name, filling in the star and “favoriting” the site. Step 3: Click on the “Organize Favorites” tab to the left. The top six sites in this tab will appear in your top site menu. To organize your favorite sites, hover your mouse over the grey, three bar icon to the right of any site name until your icon becomes a hand, then drag and drop the site into your top six sites. Refresh your browser and your top six favorite sites should now appear in your top site menu.

Step 1: Navigate to the “Site Info” tab in the left-hand side tool menu. Click on the “Manage Tools” tab inside the central tool menu. Step 2: This will reveal a menu of all available tools, including short descriptions for some of them. Select or deselect the check box next to a tool to add or remove it from your site.    Step 3: Hit “Continue” at the bottom of the page to see a revised list of the tools in your site, then hit “Finish” to finalize your selection.

Students’ Access to Sakai Course Sites from Previous Semesters At the end of every semester, Sakai course sites are unpublished and students lose access to their sites. To regain access to a course site from a previous semester, request access from the professor of that course. For more information please see: Sakai Course Site Access What Does Unpublished Site Mean?

The instructions below will show one how to manually add someone (a Claremont Colleges community member) to a course in Sakai. Below the first set of instructions are instructions to add Community Auditor Guests. Step: Navigate to the 'Site Info' tab in the left-hand side tool menu, then select the 'Add Participants' tab in the central tool menu. Use the first box in the 'Add Participants' page to add any student who is a member of the 5C’s or has a registered Claremont Colleges account in the 'username@college' format. Note: To find the username for someone from Pomona College, please click here for instructions.   For other Claremont Colleges, you may need to ask the person you are adding for their Sakai username.  You can also contact ITS at ServiceDesk@pomona.edu. Select the 'role' of the participant and click '  Continue  '. Important Note: 'Student' is a maintained role within Claremont Colleges Sakai course sites, with site participants in this role managed by a script based on information from the Registrar’s offices that updates course site membership three times a day.  This means that students who are not yet officially registered for the course who are added in a 'Student' role will be deactivated by the script.  To prevent this, add any students to your sites in the Auditor role. They will have the exact same level of site access as a registered student.  When their membership is updated by the Registrar’s Office, their role will automatically switch over to 'Student'. Choose if you would like to send an email notification to the user and click '  Continue  '. Confirm the participants being added and the roles selected.  Click '  Finish  '. Add Community Auditor Guests In your Sakai course site, go to: Site Info » Add Participants . Put the user's full email address in the BOTTOM box on the screen.  Click 'Continue'. On the next screen, give them an Auditor role. Press Continue twice, then Finish. Guest users do not use the 'Login' button.  They log in by using the Guest Login button on the Sakai main page.  If you have Community Auditor Guest Users in your classes, it would be helpful to remind them to use the Guest Login.