Loyola Support Documentation

How do I edit an announcement?

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Select the Announcements tool from the Tool Menu of your site.

How do I delete an announcement?

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Select the Announcements tool from the Tool Menu of your site.

How do I add an alias?

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Aliases may be added in several ways: using the Aliases tool, when creating or editing a site in Sites, or when adding the Email Archive tool. All existing aliases in the system will appear listed in the Aliases tool, regardless of how they were added.

How do I add an announcement?

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Select the Announcements tool from the Tool Menu of your site. 

What are Aliases?

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The Alias service supports the mapping of alias strings to a target. This is useful when things like sites have a long, cryptic name (such as a GUID).

For example, a Sakai alias can be used instead of the site id when emailing to the site [email protected] rather than [email protected].

It can also be used in place of the site id for access URLs, such as /access/content/group/test instead of /access/content/group/6ade75f9-aeef-4338-80ae-62e391045975.

The Aliases admin tool provides methods to get the target of aliases in the system, create new ones, edit them and delete them.

What is the Announcements tool?

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The Announcements tool allows for the delivery of messages to the entire class, to groups, or to specific sections within the class. Participants will see the Announcement message displayed in the Announcements area of their Home area, as well as within the course itself. These messages can be set to show immediately, or to show during specific dates. Email notifications can be sent to alert participants of the Announcement message.

How do I add site role permissions for all sites?

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Select the Admin Site Perms tool from the Tool Menu in the Administration Workspace.

How do I remove site role permissions for all sites?

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Select the Admin Site Perms tool from the Tool Menu in the Administration Workspace.

How do I check my content for accessibility?

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Note: The Accessibility Checker is a third party add-on for the Rich Text Editor. While it is open source software, the licensing guidelines do not allow it to come packaged with Sakai. If your institution has installed this add-on, the features described below will be available. If you do not see the Accessibility Checker icon, that means that your institution has not installed this add-on.

Why should I use paragraph breaks in my document?

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A paragraph break (hitting Enter or Return on the keyboard) is always more meaningful than a line break (hitting Shift + Enter or Return on the keyboard). A paragraph break inserts what looks like a double-space between one line of text and another, and it allows screen reader users to parse the information on the page more readily.

Although programs like Microsoft Word have options to create single-spaced documents with paragraph breaks, web pages do not. You may find using a line break more aesthetically pleasing than a paragraph break, but line breaks can create problems for screen reader users.

While a screen reader can interpret a paragraph break as "blank," a line break may not be indicated to the user. The text on the new line may sound like a new sentence, instead of the start of a new paragraph.