Project Description

The Course Management Working Group's focus is two-fold: 1) understand and (re)design for users of Sakai's course management-related tools, and 2) build a new framework for integrating institutional course data with Sakai. We are conducting necessary research to understand both the users within the course management domain and the enterprise data views of "course information". The results of this research drives our designs for how higher-educational institutions conceptualize and use their own data. A course management abstraction that matches real user data will empower Sakai to support the course models of the educational world which, for some instituions, is necessary in order to effectively integrate Sakai at their instituion. Our effort will result in an improved user experience, extended course site managament capabilities and a programming abstraction to accommodate institutional data. More...