ThomsonNOW on

SakaiDan Rinn

Thomson Higher EducationManager, Technology Partnership Marketing

What is “ThomsonNOW on Sakai”?• Integration --- hot topic at this Sakai conference• Text specific content within Sakai• An engine within Sakai providing

easy-to-assign textbook specific homework and quizzes • Features:

– Student single-sign-on– Results flow to Sakai gradebook– Ready to use content

Agenda

• Case Study: Wake Tech / Goals and Outcomes

• A closer look at ThomsonNOW on Sakai

• Next steps

• QA

Jacqui FieldsPre-Curriculum Online InstructorWake Technical Community College, Raleigh, NCPassionate Sakai user

ThomsonNOW on Sakai Case Study

• Jacqui has taught at Wake Tech for about 7 years

• taught online for about 5 years

• Her online courses are Math 070 (Introductory Algebra) and Math 080 (Intermediate Algebra).

My needs are pretty simple:• I want an integrated product

• quality course materials (math content)

• very user friendly delivery method.

• delivery method easily adapted to all disciplines

• easily managed

• a less expensive option.

Jacqui’s Tactics: • I used ThomsonNOW for the math piece

of the course (tutorials, homework, and quizzes).

• My students completed roughly 50 tutorials, 50 homework assignments, and 13 quizzes within ThomsonNOW.

• I used Sakai to deliver announcements, post lab assignments, and post some grades.

…Tactics

• My students had 16 lab assignments that they accessed through Sakai.

• I posted those 16 grades in the Sakai gradebook along with the grades from 3 tests and a final exam.

Next Steps…

• What I would like to see next is partial integration where my students would not have to go to 2 different websites for course information.

• A single sign-on would allow students to go to one website and see the Sakai shell of their course and then click on a link to access the tutorials, homework, quizzes, etc.

• Ultimately, I would like a total integration between the two products which include a gradebook integration.

Meeting Jacqui’s course goals:

• 2006: Single sign-on

• 2007: Integrated gradebook

• Partners: – Pilot schools– Unicon / OLI– you

Go to: http://www.thomsonedu.com/thomsonnow

Quiz is ready to take…

…student results move to the Sakai gradebook…

…assigning pre-built homework sets…

…pdf of complete textbook…

Go to: http://www.thomsonedu.com/thomsonnow

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Questions?

daniel.rinn@thomson.com