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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!

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