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How do I post to a forum topic?
Updated onArticleForums are organizational units that group topics within the site. You cannot post directly to a forum; you must first enter a topic and post your message there.
In order to post to a forum topic, you will Start a New Conversation (or thread).
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What is the Discussions tool?
Updated onArticleThe Discussions tool allows instructors or site leaders to create an unlimited number of discussion forums, and is integrated closely with other tools such as Resources and Gradebook.
A Forum is a mandatory category or grouping for topics. Topics, which are created within forums, 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: Forums 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 a site Home or Overview page, unread forum posts can be displayed. From Home, the total unread forum posts for all associated sites can be displayed.
- 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. Individual participant posts can also be read using Forum statistics.
- 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 forum 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 a response.
- Email the author of a message: Site leaders can directly email the author of a posting from within the Forums tool.
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What is Digication?
Updated onArticleDigication is an ePortfolio and assessment management system. All Loyola faculty, staff, and students have the ability to create a personal or course portfolio using Digication.
Faculty may add the Digication tool as an integration to their Sakai courses to enable students to create and share portfolios with the course.
Sakai 22 Student Guide Digication
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How do students view announcements?
Updated onArticleAnnouncements are displayed in several locations. Students may view them from Home, from an individual course or project site, or from the Announcements tool.
Sakai 22 Student Guide Announcements
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How do students view rubric feedback?
Updated onArticleStudents may view rubric feedback within the tool where the rubric was used. That is, students go to Assignments to view assignment rubrics, Gradebook to view grade item rubrics, and Tests & Quizzes to view assessment rubrics.
Sakai 22 Instructor Guide Rubrics
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How do I grade a gradebook item using a rubric?
Updated onArticleSelect Gradebook from the site Tool Menu.
Sakai 22 Instructor Guide Rubrics
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How do I grade an assessment (i.e. test or quiz) using a rubric?
Updated onArticleSelect the Tests & Quizzes tool from the site Tool Menu.
Sakai 22 Instructor Guide Rubrics
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How do I grade a forum topic using a rubric?
Updated onArticleSelect Discussions from the site tool menu.
Sakai 22 Instructor Guide Rubrics
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How do I grade an assignment using a rubric in the legacy grading interface?
Updated onArticleSelect Assignments from the site Tool Menu.
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Sakai and Accessibility
Updated onArticleSakai is a learning management system (LMS) created to assist faculty and students by providing online tools for communication, assessment, content delivery, and other learning activities.
Sakai is composed of sites, and each site has a number of tools selected by the site creator. There is also a My Workspace site private to each user, where they can access personal information and change individual settings.
This document is assistive technology agnostic and will briefly describe the different areas of the interface, indicate how these areas are implemented for accessibility, and discuss where additional assistance may be needed.
For specific help with additional assistive technology, please contact the Loyola University Chicago Student Accessibility Center (SAC) and/or Information Technology Services (ITS).
For additional information on Sakai accessibility, visit the Accessibility Working Group on the Confluence Wiki.
This article describes the following:
- Desktop versus Mobile View in Sakai
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Organization of Sakai
- Important Access Keys for Main Navigation
- Quick Access (Skip to...) Links
- Sites
- Your Profile Picture and Name (Use This Menu to Log Out)
- Favorite Sites List (on Desktop View)
- Tool Menu for the Current Site
- Expand/Collapse Tool Navigation (for Sighted Users, on Desktop View)
- Content Area
- Access Keys to Navigate the Content Area
- Footer
- Rich-Text Editor Accessibility
- Instructions for Enlarging Screen Elements, Modifying Colors/Contrast
- How to Get More Help
For specific help with assistive technologies, please refer to the Loyola Student Accessibility Center to find contact information for groups that can assist you with accessibility accommodations.
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