Toolbox offers a variety of capabilities for use in project sites, including:
Home | View recent announcements, discussions, and chat activity |
Announcements | Post current, time-critical information |
Assignments | Post assignments and receive submissions online |
Chat Room | Participate in real-time, written conversations |
Drop Box | Allow private file-sharing between instructors and students |
Gradebook | Compute and store grades |
Help | Access help documentation |
Lessons | Can organize the course by unit, module, week, topic, or any other grouping the instructor creates. Lessons leverages the power of other tools like Assignments, and Test and Quizzes. |
Membership | Choose sites in which you would like to participate |
Messages and Forums | Create discussion forums and communicate between site groups and users using internal mail. |
News | Display an RSS feed from an external site |
Podcasts | View podcasts |
Polls | Create site-based surveys and polls |
Post'em | Provides functionality for uploading .csv formatted files to display feedback (e.g., comments, grades) to site participants. |
Profile | Provides a Facebook-style interface for editing user profiles; includes Twitter integration |
Resources | Add documents and URLs to your worksite |
Roster | View list of site participants |
Schedule | Keep track of important dates and deadlines on worksite calendar |
Search | Provides search capabilities of Sakai content |
Signup tool | Schedule instructor and ta office hours, study groups, and review sessions. |
Site Info | View worksite profile and participants list |
Site Stats | View site usage statistics |
Syllabus | Create a worksite syllabus |
Tests & Quizzes | Create, administer, and correct tests and quizzes online, and automatically feed the results to the Gradebook |
Web Content | Include external website content in your worksite |
Wiki | Collaboratively edit simple web pages |