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Wizards are customized collections of informational screens and forms that provide structure and guidance for a wide variety of activities and processes using customized forms and items from the Resources tool.
If you are a system administrator or a CIG Coordinator in a portfolio site (site organizer or other user with permission), you can use this tool to perform these activities.
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In Sakai, you can create three types of wizards. The simplest type is a sequential wizard. This kind of wizard is well suited to activities in which a series of steps are performed in a linear fashion. For example, you might create a sequential wizard to guide students through the steps of creating a term paper or to guide students though assist students in performing and documenting work on an experiment that extends over a significant period of time. A wizard for an experiment might track the timing of each step, collect data and interpretations from students at critical points, and provide an opportunity for you or others an instructor or the student's peers to provide feedback along the way.
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The third type of wizard is a matrix wizard (see [Link to Matrices Tool Help)]. Also called a matrix, this wizard presents forms and information in a set of rows and columns. You might create a matrix to track progress across different disciplines (using the rows of the matrix) that have similar milestones (using the columns of the matrix). Each cell in the matrix is a point at which you can track achievements, encourage reflection on how the disciplines mesh, offer formative feedback, and provide feedbacksummative evaluation.
Who Uses Wizards
In the out-of-the-box version of Sakai, any site participant can build a matrix wizard in My Workspace by using the Worksite Setup tool to add the Matrices tool to My Workspace. Most often, however, instructors and site organizers create and share wizards with site participants in portfolio, course, and project sites. After a wizard has been published, users in many different roles may access it with different levels of permission.
Let's say you are an academic advisor and you have that has created a wizard in a portfolio site for use in tracking student progress in a specific program. Each student in the program accesses your wizard to complete forms, attach files as evidence of work completed, reflect on learning, etcand submit their work for evaluation. Reviewers and evaluators (who that you identify when you create the wizard) also access the wizard to review work and add comments at key points and/or after the entire wizard has been completed.
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To build an effective wizard, you use XSD programming and the Forms tool to create forms. These forms are then attached to wizard pages which comprise the wizard. The forms you create allow you to structure and collect information, such as reflections on learning documentation of the evidence, reflection on what was learned, and feedback and evaluation of on the work shown displayed in the wizard. These forms may apply to the wizard as a whole and/or to each page of the wizard. You may also use a .css file to create a display style for the wizard.
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To access the tool, click the Launch launch button for Wizards. Sakai displays the Wizards home page.
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Avoid unnecessary complexity: You can add unlimited instructions, forms, feedback, evaluation, and other features to each page of a wizard. You can also create an unlimited number of pages, categories, and subcategories. As a result, it's possible to make a wizard overly complex and difficult or burdensome to use. Remember this: You that you do not have to use every element and feature at every opportunity. If something seems to have little or no value at any point, leave it out.
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