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How do students add items to the Drop Box?
Updated onArticleThe Drop Box tool functions very much like the Resources tool. The main difference is that Drop Box is an individual folder for each student within a particular course.
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What is the Drop Box tool?
Updated onArticleThe Drop Box tool creates a folder for each student in the course. Students are only able to access their own folder. Students and instructors can both place files in the Drop Box folders.
The Drop Box mirrors the file management features and functionality of the Resources tool. See What is the Resources tool? for more information on how to add, upload, edit, and delete files and folders within Drop Box.
Sakai 22 Student Guide
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How do I watch or subscribe to forums?
Updated onArticleIn order to stay notified of recent posts on a forum, the Watch option is helpful.
Sakai 22 Student Guide Discussions
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How do I delete a discussion post (i.e., conversation)?
Updated onArticleSelect Discussions from the site Tool Menu.
Sakai 22 Student Guide Discussions
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How do I email a forum post author?
Updated onArticleThis article outlines the process of contacting an author of a Discussions post by email. Typically, the email option is only available for instructors or site owners.
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How do I reply to a forum post (i.e., conversation)?
Updated onArticleSelect Discussions from the site Tool Menu.
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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.
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