How students can share documents with Sakai

Sakai is the Claremont College's online collaboration and learning environment. Essentially, every Sakai course site is a full-featured web site with extensive, integrated built-in online tools — discussion board, email, announcements, chatroom, gradebook, resource area for any files you would like to share including web links to external sites, calendar, wiki, and much more.

Sharing resources
Many faculty have found Sakai's Resource tool useful for sharing web links, documents, and other types of files with students. Although it is not intuitively obvious, Sakai's Resource tool can enhance communication and collaboration among students too.

How students can share documents and other files

• In your Sakai Resources, create a new folder by clicking the "Add" Tab next to the Folder "[Class name] Resources."
• Select the "Create Folders" link from the drop-down menu.
  
• You then need to name the folder. You can name it Paper 1, Paper 2, etc. or whatever name you want, as long as it's clear to the students which which should go where.
• If you will be adding more than one folder, you can select the "Add Another Folder" option and you will then be prompted to enter the name of the next new folder; you can do this for as many folders as you would like to add.
• When you are finished adding folders, click the "Create Folders Now" button. Your folder(s) will appear in the "[Class name] Resources.
• To allow your students to upload their papers into these folders, you will then need edit the folder's permission as follows:

1. Click on the Actions drop-down menu next to the folder.
   
2. From the drop-down menu, select the "Edit Folder Permissions" link for the folder.
3. To allow your students to upload documents, the "new" box needs to be checked for the Student role.
4. You can also decide whether the students are able to revise or delete their own documents and/or those of their classmates. When the correct boxes are selected, click on the "Save" button.
5. Options for folder permissions include:
   new: Add new resources
   read: View and download resources (checked by default)
   revise.any: Modify any resources
   revise.own: Modify own resources
   delete.any: Remove any resources
   delete.own: Remove own resources
   all.groups: Allows participants to see all resources, even those assigned to specific groups
6. When the correct boxes are selected, click "Save" button.

Online resources

• Claremont Collaborative Learning Environment
  
  1. Login to your Sakai account and explore the helpful links at the bottom of your My Workspace tab.
     
  2. SC Faculty Support Sakai project > Resources > Sakai Resources - includes links to useful campus and web online resources and the Spring 2008 Student Survey results.
     https://sakai.claremont.edu
• Student instructional technology assistants can help you in your office, over the telephone, or in the Scripps Faculty Lab. For more information, please visit:
  www.scrippscollege.edu/campus/it/it-fits/
  To make an appointment, please fill out our online request form:
  www.scrippscollege.edu/campus/it/it-fits/help.php