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Interface
Tips & tricks
Accessibility
This tutorial:
You “land” in your My Workspace area.
Course & project sites are listed as tabs.
Note: to enter another site, just click on the tab.
Your menu is always on the left.
This message is set by the Sakai administrator.
This area is set by the Sakai administrator.
See all new activity in Messages and Forums tool since your last log in.
See upcoming events for all of your Sakai sites aggregated here.
Reset button
returns you to the starting point of the tool you are using,
as if you had entered the tool in a new session.
Reset button
You will see the reset button often.
Context-sensitive help
Context-sensitive help
provides help where you need it. Click the icon near a tool to link directly to the documentation.
Help is always located on every menu. It links to the main help page.
Help is always located on every menu. It links to the main help page.
The icon provides help related to the tool listed to its left.
The icon provides help related to the tool listed to its left.
You will see the context-sensitive help icon often.
Icons that help you
Reset button
Context-sensitive
help
Tips & tricks
FormsPaste from Word
Attachments
Sakai uses forms.
They will become familiar friends.
Many forms include a text box editor.
I am a text box editor.
Use the Paste from Word icon.
for best format results
Note:
Text box editors pose challenges
to non-mouse users.
Use attachmentsNon-mouse users can use MS-Word
accessibility features and upload docs to Sakai tools below via attachments.
Announcements
Assignments
CalendarForums
Syllabus
Email Archive
Messages
Discussions & Private Messages
Good accessibility practice
Attachments
Allow students to submit assignments
as attachments
Good for all of us!
Retain back-up copies in event of technical “glitch.”
Interface
Tips & tricks
Accessibility
Summary
Now you’re readyto take on the world!
CC-Licensed images used:
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Slide 23:http://www.flickr.com/photos/b-tal/116220689/sizes/l/in/photostream/
Slide 38:http://www.flickr.com/photos/lithoglyphic/192075381/sizes/l/in/photostream/
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