Towards Adapting Sakai for e-Learning Provider

Jyoti Chauhan, Khulan Batbayar, Richa Sharma, Deepika Sharma, Divya Popli, Naveen Kumar, Anita Goel

2015

Abstract

Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) is an emerging method in online education. Sakai is a popular open source platform widely used by e-learning providers to offer MOOC. Sakai provides a set of collaborative tools for teachers, learners and researchers to support teaching, learning and research. For using Sakai, the e-learning provider needs to customize and adapt the interface of Sakai, like, banner, logo, background color etc. to suit their requirement. This paper presents the development of a tool named SkinChanger that facilitates customizing of Sakai interface, based on need of the e-learning provider. SkinChanger customizes the appearance of Sakai body, header and footer. It facilitates skin changing by providing a user friendly interface. SkinChanger is component-based tool and can be plug-in. This paper illustrates the use of tool to customize the Sakai interface for University of Delhi.

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Chauhan J., Batbayar K., Sharma R., Sharma D., Popli D., Kumar N. and Goel A. (2015). Towards Adapting Sakai for e-Learning Provider . In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU, ISBN 978-989-758-107-6, pages 306-314. DOI: 10.5220/0005446603060314


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@conference{csedu15,
author={Jyoti Chauhan and Khulan Batbayar and Richa Sharma and Deepika Sharma and Divya Popli and Naveen Kumar and Anita Goel},
title={Towards Adapting Sakai for e-Learning Provider},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU,},
year={2015},
pages={306-314},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005446603060314},
isbn={978-989-758-107-6},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU,
TI - Towards Adapting Sakai for e-Learning Provider
SN - 978-989-758-107-6
AU - Chauhan J.
AU - Batbayar K.
AU - Sharma R.
AU - Sharma D.
AU - Popli D.
AU - Kumar N.
AU - Goel A.
PY - 2015
SP - 306
EP - 314
DO - 10.5220/0005446603060314