Ithaca College

Sent on behalf of Mark Fink, Director for Teaching and Learning with Technology

Brief Outage
Sakai will be unavailable for about 5 minutes around 5:00 AM on Friday, September 9th in order to implement the new Attendance tool. In addition, several 3rd-party tools are now available to connect with Sakai.

NEW TOOLS:

Attendance (new Sakai core tool added through Site Info -> Edit Tools)
Features include: 

• Printable sign-in and attendance sheets
• Take Attendance Now feature
• Enter comments in an individual student’s attendance record
• View specific sections and groups
• Setup attendance grading
• Choose whether to allow students to view their grade in Attendance
• Choose whether to send grades to the Gradebook

3rd-Party Tools Now Accessible Via Sakai:

Microsoft OneNote Class Notebook
Features include: 

• A link to your OneNote Class Notebook on your Sakai left-hand navigation menu 
• Ability to grant access to shared documents in a OneNote Notebook based on Sakai class roster membership
• Edit documents in real time or off-line
• Multiple people can edit the documents at the same time.
• Changes are merged automatically
• Document versioning
• Identified authorship
• Content tagging
• Record audio directly in the document
• Insert images and other media from your computer or the web

NowComment
Discuss and annotate on-line documents and media!
Features include: 

• A link to your NowComment class documents on your Sakai left-hand navigation menu 
• Ability to grant access to NowComment Class documents based on Sakai class roster membership
• Creates new student accounts automatically

More NowComment Information:

• Overview Videos : https://nowcomment.com/help
• In-context commenting on videos and images: https://youtu.be/inNSQka79r8
• Features Gallery: https://nowcomment.com/features_gallery

McGraw Hill's MH Campus
Access MH Campus directly from your Sakai course site.

How to Create the Sakai Connections Yourself:
If you're an instructor in a Sakai site you can create connections between Sakai and the above 3rd party tools. Here are the steps:

1. Enter your Sakai course site
2. Click on "Site Info"
3. Click "Edit Tools"
4. Scroll to the bottom of the Tools page and Click "Plugin Tools"
5. Tick the box next to the tool you want to add
6. Click "Continue"
7. Click "Finish"

A link to the tool will appear at the bottom of your Sakai navigation menu (on the left). Now you're ready to make your connection!

• Click on the tool link from your Sakai navigation menu and follow the instructions provided by the third party tool.

For assistance with these or other textbook publishers' tools, such as W.W. Norton Online Tools, please contact the Service Desk.

DIIS Service Desk
104 Job Hall
607-274-1000
servicedesk@ithaca.edu