Sakai Training

Is there any human training available for actually implementing this product?

There are a number of sources available to learn how to deploy Sakai into your school system. Some of these are self-directed and incude the Sakaipedia http://bugs.sakaiproject.org/confluence/display/ENC/Home, the Sakai Knowledge Base https://www.indiana.edu/~sakaikb/, and the Sakai project collaboration sites http://collab.sakaiproject.org (requires an account for which you can self-register). One of the Sakai collaboration sites, DG-Development, serves as a site for general developers and integrators. Questions can be posed and answered there. Also consider DG-User as collab.sakaiproject.org, which is billed as the place for the end-users of Sakai (faculty, staff, students, and researchers) to be involved.

The Sakai Educational Partnership Program also sponsors two conferences annually which include some live training. The next conference is in December in Atlanta. Have a look at http://www.sakaiproject.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=418&Itemid=567. If you are serious about using Sakai as your class support system, I urge you to consider joining SEPP.

Finally, there are several companies that offer support for Sakai installation, under the Sakai Commercial Affiliates.

Training Offered by Unicon

Sakai Manager Training - Intended for Administrators and Power Users, this two-day class covers the features and functionality necessary to manage and maintain Sakai.

Sakai Instructor Training - Designed for Faculty and Staff using Sakai, this one-day class covers the instructor tool-set in detail.

Sakai Administrator Training - Intended for System Administrators and Developers, this four-hour web training includes an overview of Sakai architecture, installation, maintenance and support.

Sakai Developer Training - Tailored for Developers, this three and a half day hands-on workshop provides the knowledge and experience required to integrate Sakai to student information sources, security systems, and course management data.

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Training Offered by Mark Norton

Mark Norton has developed a set of modular presentations around Sakai tool development and integration that enable hands-on workshops to be custom developed and presented. Presentations include a deep look into the underlying Sakai models for users, groups, security, sites, and course management. His Sakai Training Curriculum offers a number of hands-on exercises to enable Java developers to learn the skills needed to create new tools, port existing ones, and integrate Sakai into their campus environment.

Sakai Programmer's Cafe

The Sakai Programmer's Cafe developed by Aaron Zeckoski and others is a comprehensive introduction to developing Sakai tools using Servlets, JavaServer Faces, and now RSF. The training materials are all on-line and include many examples of coding techniques. This materials is also offered in the Sakai Boot Camp usually before each of the biannual Sakai Conferences.

Sakai Developer Training

On site Sakai developer training is offered by the programmers cafe group by request. Training is as comprehensive as needed and includes Java best practices, Test Driven development, eXtreme Programming methods, Sakai structure and Sakai development best practices. Optional modules include Spring framework, Eclipse, Hibernate, RSF, JSP, JSF, Velocity, Junit, Tomcat, Maven, etc. Training includes exercises, code writing and debugging demonstrations, and presentations on requested topics. Contact Aaron Zeckoski if you have questions or would like to make arrangements (More info).