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What Resources are specific to admin users?
Updated onArticleThe Resources tool within the Administration Workspace functions the same way as the Resources tool in other sites. However, within the Administration Workspace, Resources also provides access to files and directories in the system that non-admin users do not see.
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How do I add a new topic?
Updated onArticleA Discussion must contain a Topic in order for users to create a post. (See also How do I create a new Discussion?)
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What are the default realm permissions for basic roles in Sakai?
Updated onArticleSakai 11 OOTB comes with preconfigured realm permissions as shown below. Administrators may modify the realms on a per-role basis (exercising caution is recommended) and configure new roles with appropriate permissions.
Warning: the list of all possible realm permissions is long.
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What do the various realms in Sakai do?
Updated onArticleBelow is a listing of various realms in Sakai. This list is not an exhaustive one, since system administrators may edit existing realms or add new custom realms.
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What do the various realm permissions do?
Updated onArticleRealm Permissions control the actions that specific user roles have permission to perform within the system. Certain sets of permissions are associated with user types by default (e.g. instructors, students, etc.) which allow them to perform the common tasks associated with that role. In some cases, you may need to modify the realm permissions for a specific user or a specific role. Additionally, system administrators can also create custom roles and assign custom sets of realm permissions to those roles.
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How do I create a new discussion?
Updated onArticleThe Discussions tool is organized by Discussions, Topics, and Conversations.
- A Discussion is a mandatory category or grouping for topics. There may be more than one discussion in the course or project site.
- Topics are required within Discussions in order for site participants to be able to post, read, and reply to messages.
- Conversations are messages or threads of discussion posted within a Topic.
This article covers the process for creating a new Discussion.
Discussions are useful for grouping several similar topics together, such as graded discussions, or group topics. They can also be used to specify the default topic settings for all topics within the discussion. All new topics will inherit the discussion settings by default.
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What is the Discussions tool?
Updated onArticleThe Discussions tool allows instructors or site leaders to create an unlimited number of class discussions, and is integrated closely with other tools such as Resources and Gradebook.
A Discussion is a mandatory category or grouping for topics. Topics, which are created within discussions, are where participants can post conversations. A Conversation is the thread of messages in which participants post their contributions. A conversation can be created by instructors or students inside of a topic.
Some the features in the Discussions tool include the following:
- Grading: Interactions can be assigned a point value and sent to the Gradebook with comments.
- Availability dates: Discussions and topics can be released according to specified dates.
- Moderation: Instructors can choose to moderate messages posted to topics.
- Counts of unread posts at a glance: On your site's Home or Overview page, you can see how many unread messages or posts you have in both Messages and Discussions. From Home, you can see these totals for all sites in which you are enrolled.
- Email notifications: Site members can elect to receive no email notification, notification for all new postings in a site, or notification for responses to conversations they've posted in. The default is to receive notifications about new postings in conversations to which you have contributed.
- Statistics: Discussions statistics are available for site owners to determine the participation level of individual participants. You can also read all of a particular participant's posts using this feature.
- Post before reading option: The site owner (or another participant with the appropriate role) can enable participants to submit their posts to a topic before they have permission to read the responses of others.
- Group awareness: Site leaders can change discussions and topic settings in combination with predefined groups to allow or deny access to specific discussions per group.
- Direct link to individual messages: Site leaders can copy a direct link to individual messages to use elsewhere.
- Composing messages: A Rich Text Editor allows rich text, plain text, and HTML editing. You can add attachments to any message by linking to files or web links in Resources.
- Quoted text: Use the Insert Original Text option to insert the previous post into your response.
- Email the author of a message: Site leaders can directly email the author of a posting from within the Discussions tool.
Note: A discussion with the name of the site and a topic titled "General Discussion" are created by default.
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How do I create a new, or custom role within a Realm?
Updated onArticleWhen adding a new role to a realm, it is often easiest to copy an existing role that is similar to the one you want to create, and then add or remove the permissions as required.
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How do I modify an existing role within a Realm?
Updated onArticleSelect the Realms tool from the Tool Menu of the Administration Workspace.
/ Sakai 21 Administrator Guide (English) / Realms
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How do I edit the Home Dashboard?
Updated onArticleThe Home Dashboard may be individually customized by all users in their own Home areas.
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