1. In the destination site, click on Site Info.
2. Click Import from Site.
3. Click I would like to merge my data
4. Check the box next to the course that has the content you want to copy.
5. Click Continue.
6. Choose the appropriate content area (Announcements, Assignments, Resources)
7. Click Finish

All of the content from that particular area will now reside in the destination site. Note that in order to import content into a particular area, that area must be added as a tool into the destination site. For example, if you'd like to import a quiz into the destination site, the Tests & Quizzes tool must be added to the destination site for it to appear.

Applies To: Faculty

In the new site:

1. Go to Site Info
2. Click on Import from Site
3. Select the course that contains the content you want to import
4. Click on the content areas you want to bring over (eg, Tests & Quizzes, Resources)
5. Click Continue, then Finished.

Applies To: Faculty

Go to Site Info > Import from Site, then choose the third option, which is "I would like to merge my user(s)".

In the next screen, check the box of the site that contains the students you want to import.

If you log into Sakai, enter the "Sakai Help at W&L" site, click on "Tegrity Screencasts", there is a screencast that shows this process titled "Merging Enrollments".

Applies To: Faculty

To remove a student from a class:

1. Go to Site Info and scroll down to the list of enrollees
2. Check the box next to his/her name
3. Check the Remove checkbox
4. Click Update Participants

The professor needs to publish the course.

In the course site within Sakai:

1. In the upper left corner of the screen, click on the (Publish Site) button

You can also publish the site this way:

1. Go to Site Info
2. Manage Access
3. Publish Site
4. Update

By default, Sakai course sites are unpublished, which means that students will not be able to access a site until it is published by the instructor. 

To publish your site, click on Site Info, then Manage Access. Tick the box next to "Publish Site." Now click Update. 

Applies To: Faculty

1. Open   WLU Sakai : https://sakai.wlu.edu

2. Click the Login button.

3. Type your guest account login and password, and click Login.

4. Go to the site, click on the site tab. (You will see two or more tabs in a row across the upper part of the screen.)

Check your Delivery Dates and the time of day. 

Sakai allows you to set both the date and the time-- down to the second-- when your assessment will become available. Because it uses by default the time that you publish the assessment, you might find that the time is later than you expected. 

To add a student:

1. Go to the course site in Sakai
2. Go to Site Info > Add Participants
3. In the top box, add the student's username, eg SmithJ16 (Do not use the complete email address; only the username)
   
4. Continue
5. Select Student
6. Continue
7. Select Send Now if you want the student to receive an email notification that she/he has been added to the site; otherwise select Don't Send
8. Continue
9. Finish

In the Sakai site, go to:

1. Site Info
2. Edit Tools
3. Select the checkbox by the desired tool(s)
4. Continue
5. Finish

Contact the Information Desk in Leyburn Library at extension 4357 for basic Sakai questions.

For more in-depth Sakai questions or for training on any of the tools in Sakai please submit a request to help@wlu.edu with the details.

Applies To: Faculty, Staff

1.Find the folder you want to move (in the Resources area of the course)

2.      From the Actions menu choose Move.

3.      Click on the “Show other sites” link in the bottom gray bar.

4.      Choose “Paste moved items” from the Action dropdown menu next to the folder where you’d to move the items.

5.      You can also click on the plus sign next to a folder to drill down into that folder and choose a folder within that folder.

Applies To: Faculty, Students

If you need to print out your results from a Sakai evaluation from Tests & Quizzes, here is how to do it.

1. Click on Tests & Quizzes ana navigate to Published Assessments tab.
2. Choose “Scores” from Select Action button next to evaluation
3. Choose “Statistics” from gray top menu; this opens Sakai’s report panel
4. Right click in report frame and select “This Frame -> Print Frame…” This will print out the entire report.
5. You can also export results to an Excel spreadsheet. Choose “Export” from top gray menu to do this.
6. In the exported file, individual students are listed by row. Questions are listed by column.

Yes you can. In the course site, go to Site Info > Add Participants.

Outside participants need to be added to the second box "Non-official Particpants". Enter the full email address of the participant and that person will be sent an e-mail with their username (full email address) and password (generated by Sakai.)

Applies To: Faculty

1.     If that is the folder you want, you can move it or copy it to the new location by going to the Resources section, check the checkbox next to the folder name, and choose Copy or Move from the Actions menu.

2.     After you’ve clicked on Copy or Move, you need to select the “Show Other Sites” link at the bottom of the screen.

3.     Browse to the site where you’d like to copy or move your folder.  Click the checkbox next to the folder where you want the links folder to go (Probably the top level Resources folder) and select Paste Copied Items from the Actions Menu.

See the screen shots in the Resources Document

Applies To: Faculty, Staff

Add the forum tool
Create a forum which students don't see
Add topics which students do see
Check by clicking drop done view as 'student'
You will see what they will see live

Applies To: Faculty, Staff

When you add a W&L student, faculty or staff member to a Sakai site (Site Info > Add Participants) add the USERNAME ONLY in the top box for Official Participants. If you use the entire e-mail address, Sakai creates a guest account instead of using the regular account that's already there, so the regular account won't see the website.

Please call the Information desk at extension 4357 if you still need assistance.

You can move or copy multiple files all at once:

1.      Go to the Resources area of the course with the files that you want to move or copy.

2.      To the left of each folder and file is a checkbox. Check the checkbox for every file you want to move.

3.      Look at the top of the list, just above the top gray bar. You should see 3 links: Copy, Remove and Move.

4.      Click on the Move or Copy link.

5.      Click on the Show Other Sites link.

6.      Select the appropriate folder from the list.

Applies To: Faculty, Students

You can check updates to your Sakai sites on your smart phone! Just 

go to http://sakai.wlu.edu/portal/pda and log in. This interface 

makes it much easier to check on your classes when you're not at 

your computer.

Applies To: Faculty, Students

Add the discussion forum tool to the site.

Allow new threads and allow attachments.

Have the students create a thread, post their assignments as attachments and then have three other students post replies to those threads. If a student goes in and sees that a particular paper already has three replies, then she or he needs to look at another paper. I don’t think there’s a way you can enforce this automatically, you just have to tell the students to pay attention.

If you look at the times submitted for the replies, you’ll be able to see who did the first three replies.

Applies To: Faculty, Staff

There are two possible causes:

1. Make sure that you have published the site. (Site Info > Manage Access > Publish Site)

2. Add the participant to the site as a NON-OFFICIAL site participant. In the course site, go to Site Info > Add Participants and add the user's full e-mail address in the SECOND box for NON-OFFICIAL participants.

Applies To: Faculty

To upload an poster to Sakai: 

Login

Go to "My Workspace" 

Select "Membership"

Select "Poster Printing Drop Box"

Go to the folder with your name and click "Add" and "Upload Files.")

Contact Brandon (bucyb@wlu.edu) or Elizabeth (teaffe@wlu.edu) for questions.                     

Thanks, eat

Macintosh users should always use the (Mozilla) Firefox browser when working in Sakai.

In the Sakai site:

1. Go to Gradebook

2. All grades (it's in the light gray bar near the top of the screen)

3. Export Gradebook (a button to the right of the screen)

Applies To: Faculty

Open up the Tegrity link from Sakai
Open the Session List and click the session you want to send
At the bottom you will see an Actions drop down menu (if not maximize the window)
Under Class Actions Click Get Class Link

Note ** UNCHECK the "Do not allow anonymous user ..." box
If you don’t the user will HAVE to log into Sakai

Copy the URL and send via e-mail to TRUSTED user

1. You can use the Course Distribution Lists that are available in the Global Address List (GAL) in Outlook or Entourage. The courses are listed alphabetically by discipline. The format is Chem 106_01 Spring 2009-10.
2. In Sakai, you can use the Announcements tool to send e-mails. Choose High Priority to send e-mail to all participants of the site.
3. In Sakai, use the EMail Archive tool. You will have to add the EMail Archive tool in the Site Info > Edit Tools screen.
4. In Sakai, use the Mailtool too. You will have to add the Mailtool tool in the Site Info > Edit Tools screen. Note: The Mailtool has been deprecated by the Sakai Foundation. The tool is no longer supported and may not be included in future releases.

Sakai is the LMS (Learning Management System) at Washington and Lee University. The web address is http://sakai.wlu.edu

Once you've logged into Sakai, click on the More Sites tab. Classes that might have been listed in the tabs across the top previously might show now only under the More Sites tab.

The University Confidentiality Policy covers "any personally-identifiable student and parent records, financial records (including social security and credit card numbers), and health records; contracts; research data; alumni and donor records; personnel records other than an individual's own personnel records; University financial data; computer passwords, University proprietary information/data; and any other information for which access, use, or disclosure is not authorized by: 1) federal, state, or local law; or 2) University policy or operations." If you have any questions, contact the ISP Coordinator or the Information Security Officer.

Mail merges can be done in Word.  If you need assistance please contact the Information Desk at X 4357 or enter a ticket in WebHelpDesk.  See Related Resources if using Word 2010.

There are three ways to move a quiz from one Sakai site to another. Here are the three methods:

Method #1

1. Activate the Tests & Quizzes tool in the destination Sakai site.
   (Site Info > Edit Tools > check the box next to "Tests & Quizzes" > Continue > Finish.)
2. In the old site, go into Tests & Quizzes.
3. Below the title of the test you want to export, click on the link that says "Export".
4. In the next screen, make sure that Content Packaging is selected.
5. Click the Export button.
6. Click Download.
7. A browser window will open up with a page full of xml code. Don't worry, that's supposed to happen.
8. In that window, go to File>Save As and save the file to your desktop. It should be named "exportAssessment.xml" That's fine, no need to change the title unless you want to add, "exportAssessmentChem106.xml" for example.
9. Click Save.
10. Go into the destination course.
11. Tests & Quizzes > Assessments
12. Click on the Import button
13. Browse to the exportAssessment.xml file and click Open.
14. Click Import. Depending on the size of the file, this might take a minute.
15.  You should now see the imported test listed under Assessments.

Method #2 (this method will bring in ALL Tests and Quizzes from an old site)

1. Activate the Tests & Quizzes tool in the destination Sakai site.
   (Site Info > Edit Tools > check the box next to "Tests & Quizzes" > Continue > Finish.)
2. In the destination site, go to Site Info > Click on Import from Site > Select "I want to merge my data"
3. Select the old course that has the test, quiz or survey you want to copy.
4. Check the box next to Tests & Quizzes.
5. Click on Import > Finish > Continue
6. Click on Tests & Quizzes in the left side menu to verify that the test, quiz or survey was merged into the site.

Method #3 (This method creates a question pool that you can access in any of your course sites.)

1. In the course site that has the assessment you want to copy, go to Tests & Quizzes.
2. Click on Question Pools
3. Choose Add New Pool.
4. Fill in the Pool Name field and Save
5. Click on Assessments.
6. Click on the name of the Assessment that has the questions you want. You should now see the contents of the assessment.
7. For each part in the assessment, on the right-side menu, click on Copy to Pool.
8. Click on the name of the pool you created for these questions.
9. Now, in the destination site, Create a new assessment. (Tests & Quizzes > Assessments > Fill in the Title field, and click on Create.)
10. In the Add Question drop-down box, select Copy from Question Pool.
11. Click on the name of the pool that has the questions you want.
12. Check the Copy? checkbox on the right side for every question you want to copy to the new assessment.
13. Click Copy at the bottom of the screen.

Applies To: Faculty

Issue:

Occasionally Outlook will freeze and a message will pop up stating "Outlook is trying to retrieve data from the Microsoft Exchange server MEXMBA.ad.wlu.edu."

Reason:

This is most often caused by there being an overly large number of items in the folder of which Outlook is attempting to display the contents. Outlook must perform several operations against the Exchange server to retrieve the contents of a folder. Therefore, when there are many items in a folder, additional processing is required to respond to the Outlook requests.

Solution:

You can help avoid poor performance in Outlook by carefully managing the number of items in folders, especially the Outlook folders that are heavily used (such as the Inbox, Calendar, Tasks, and Sent Items folders).

For the best performance of Outlook, we recommend that you not exceed 5,000 items in any one folder.

Additional Information:

Operations that depend on the number of items in the folder include adding a new column to the view, sorting on a new column, finds and searches. Additionally, the complexity of the requested action will have an impact. For example, marking all items in a folder as Read will take much longer than marking one item. Other actions that may take a long time include retrieving free-busy information for lots of users on a meeting request, or performing a search across multiple folders. If you are frequently performing complex actions, or have high use of the Contacts and Calendar folders, the probability that you will experience decreased performance because of high item counts is greatly increased.

Applies To: Faculty, Staff

In Sakai:

1. Go to the My Workspace tab.
2. Click on Worksite Setup.
3. Click New.
4. Choose Project Site (not Portfolio Site)
5. Click Continue
6. Give your site a title.
7. Click Continue
8. Choose the tools that you would like to use in your project site.
9. Click Continue twice
10. Click Create Site

**Audio-only installations can be done upon request for professors who will be teaching in a space for the semester. Please allow one week lead time for installation.

Please complete a helpdesk ticket with the following information:

1. Data path where the folder/file is located. (ex. SERVERname:\FOLDERname\FILEname)

2. Last known date that the folder/file was good.

3. Location of where the data is to be restored to. (usually the original location, or a folder called restore in the same location).

Note: Restore requests are handled in a timely manner, but can take up to 3 days to complete if offsite backup tapes are required.

Yes.  Within every course folder on the L: drive, there is a "public_html" folder that is automatically created.  Create your course content there and the URL to the site will be accessible from http://Courses.wlu.edu. 

Applies To: Faculty

1.      Open Publisher

2.      File > New

3.      There is a box in the top right that says “Search for Templates”

4.      In that box, type, “5392” (or the form number) and hit “Enter” or click on the magnifying glass.

5.      The template for the badges should appear. In the bottom right corner, click on Create.

6.      Click on the Mailings tab

7.      Select Mail Merge (down arrow) > Step by Step Mail Merge Wizard.

8.      On the right side, under Create recipient list, choose Use an Existing List

9.      Click Next: Create or connect to a recipient list. A browse screen should appear. Browse to the excel file with the names.

10.  Click Next: Prepare your Publication. Choose Sheet 1 when you are prompted.

11.  Click OK.

12.  Grab the Class List for Course Name Winter ’12 (highlighted below in yellow) and drag it to the name badge field:

13.  Select “F2” and drag it below the Class List for Course Name Winter ’12.

14.  Put your cursor above Class List for Journalism and type in "Title of your Event"

15.  Highlight everything and center justify, make any changes to the font (bold, etc.)

16.  Select Create Merged Publication.

17.  Select Print Preview and make sure you’re happy with the editing. If not, click on Previous: Prepare your publication down at the bottom of the screen.

18.  Select Print - Merge to Printer when you’re happy with it.

Applies To: Faculty, Staff

First select the entire document by clicking Control A.

Then click Control/Shift/F9 and it will remove all links.

Save the document.

Applies To: Faculty, Staff

Please view the document on how to retrieve data from a Poll Everywhere polling session after you’ve cleared it. If you have two sections of the same course, you would run the poll for the first section. You would clear the data after you run the poll for the first section, and then run the poll for the second section. If you want to get back to the data from the first section, this is how you would do it.

1. Open Internet Explorer.

2. Go up to the gear menu in the upper right and select "Internet Options".

3. On the first page, you'll see a subheading named "Browsing history" and two buttons--hit "Settings".

4. In the new window that pops up, select "View Files" and a file window will open up. There, you can sort by name or size or type (although the name will likely be meaningless, just look for a file of the right type that was edited at or near the right time.

5. DO NOT double-click the file--it will try to open it up from the web, not where you saved it, and may corrupt what you have saved. Select the right file or files, and copy them to the desktop (either drag-and-drop or Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V). There you can open it and resave it properly with the right name.

Applies To: Students

Applies To: Faculty, Staff

Classroom PCs and ITS laptops are referred to as "frozen" since data you save to the C:\ drive will be deleted when the computer is rebooted.  

These computers have a T:\ drive where data can be saved and not overwritten during a reboot.  The T:\ drive is limited to a maximum size of 2GB.  This drive is labeled "SAVE LOCAL DATA HERE".

You may also use a memory stick connected to the USB port on the computer to save your data.

See image below for graphic details:

Applies To: Students

Word 2007 and Word 2010

1. Start Word, and then open a new blank document.
2. Go to Word Options
   • In Word 2007, click the Office Button, and then click Word Options.
   • In Word 2010, click File, and then click Options.
3. On the Advanced tab, go to the General section.
4. Click to select the Confirm file format conversion on open check box, and then click OK.
5. On the Mailings tab, click Start Mail Merge, and then select Step By Step Mail Merge Wizard.
6. In the Mail Merge task pane, select the type of document that you want to work on, and then click Next.
7. Under Select starting document, select the starting document that you want to use, and then click Next.
8. Under Select recipients, click Use an existing list, and then click Browse.
9. In the Select Data Source dialog box, locate the folder that contains the Excel workbook that you want to use as your data source, select the workbook, and then click Open.
10. In the Confirm Data Source dialog box, click to select the Show all check box. Click MS Excel Worksheets via DDE (*.xls), and then click OK.
11. In the Microsoft Excel dialog box, under Named or cell range, select the cell range or worksheet that contains the data that you want to use, and then click OK.
    NOTE: Your data now appears in the Mail Merge Recipients dialog box with the same formatting that appears in the Excel worksheet.

If you need access to Colleague, please go to https://managementtools.wlu.edu/AccessRequest/ and request an account. Once the proper approvals are granted, an account will be set up for you. Accounts are set up on an individual basis and they should not be shared with anyone. In most cases, when dealing with course and student information, the Registrar’s office will provide some level of training or guidance on how to access the data you require.

If you already have access to Colleague but cannot remember your login information or have issues accessing the system, go to http://webhelpdesk.wlu.edu and create a ticket under the category of Administrative Data – Colleague Issues/Requests. Once submitted, the ticket will be automatically routed to the appropriate person who can help you resolve problems.