Sakai Training & Tutorials

Intro to Sakai for Faculty

1. Intro to a Sakai Course Site (4:57min)
2. Sakai's Overview Page (4:59min)
3. Uploading a Syllabus (2:19)
4. Sakai Announcements (5:37)
5. Assignments in Sakai (9:14min)
6. Sakai Discussion Forum (6:20min)
7. Tests & Quizzes in Sakai (10:03)

Top 10 Answers to Common Questions

1. Importing Content from Another Sakai Site (2:45min)
2. How to how/Hide Tools in Sakai (2:35min)
3. How to Embed  or Link to a Video in Sakai (2:55min)
4. Taking Sakai Forums Out of DRAFT Mode (1:02min)
5. How to Create a New Lessons Page  (3:04min)
6. Grading Forums in Sakai (2:55min)
7. Uploading Files and Images into Sakai (6:13min)
8. Submitting an Assignment on Behalf of a Student (2:50)
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All Sakai Tutorials for Faculty and Students

What is Sakai?

Antioch Sakai is our learning management system (LMS). Antioch Sakai houses all academic course sites for University campuses and project sites for groups (i.e. academic programs, committees).

An LMS provides you with a set of familiar foundational tools to facilitate the thoughtful and cohesive design of a learning environment. Used well, it can be a springboard to enrich the emergence and development of knowledge, skills, understanding, mastery, and innovation. Also, while you will be using a course site in Sakai, that site needn't be the boundary of the learning experience.Ultimately, it is an organizing container for your teaching artistry.  Use it to add value to your learning designs. No one set of tools “does it all.” The more you know about using an LMS, the better equipped you will be to design an environment that takes you beyond its boundaries by tapping into a larger and richer array of tools.

Common Sakai Course Questions

When is my course created?
A Sakai course site is auto-created from the Registrar’s system after the course has been officially made Active. Sakai course sites will be created and made available to faculty roughly 12 weeks prior to a new term. If a course is entered into the system late, it will be available the day after it is entered and made ACTIVE.

When are students added to the roster?
The site includes a roster that is updated from the Registrar’s records each night. New students appear in your site roster the day after they are officially registered in the course. Students who officially drop the course are removed. 

What do I do if there are roster errors?
Refer the student(s) in question to Student Services to correct any problems with their course registration.

How and when do students ‘see’ my course?
All courses are "unpublished" by default. That means that anyone with a "student" status will not be able to see it until you publish it. If you see the “unpublished site” banner across the top of your course, the site does not show to students in their list of accessible sites.  When you click the "Publish Now" button, students will have access to any content you've posted in the site.

How can I see my course as students see it?
Select the Student View option at the top of the left menu.  Click "Exit Student View" to return to your normal view.

 What do I do if something seem technically amiss with my course site?
Contact at@antioch.edu and email us the term, course number, name and section (e.g. 22SPSEM COUN-5234-B) and the details of what is going wrong and what Assign, Forum, or page we can find the problem on.