Sakai Features

### Features

Sakai offers a variety of features for use in course and 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
Discussion | Engage in written conversations, not in real time
Drop Box | Allow private file-sharing between instructors and students
Email Archive | Maintain an archive of all email sent to the worksite's email list
Gradebook | Compute and store grades
Help | Access help documentation
Membership | Choose sites in which you would like to participate
News | Display an RSS feed from an external site
Preferences | Set your personal preferences, such as time zone, tab order
Presentation | Present slides to a live audience, who can also view slides later
Profile | Let users add and make public personal information, including pictures
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
Section Info | Manage sections or groups within a site
Site Info | View worksite profile and participants list
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
Worksite Setup | Create and manage sites

The information displayed here can be modified by the Sakai Administrator by editing the !gateway site.