Five minutes goes by very quickly, but I was able to record a basic video that shows what Sakai looks like. I got this account by going to testdrivesakai.com.
Overall thoughts - most of the basic features are present, but there are several things that were confusing such as the "Modules" tab. I didn't like that all of the tools were separated without a good way to link them into what I would consider to be a natural academic workflow for a student or instructor. I didn't see a good way to rename or reorder the list of tools. Also, the course blog feed seemed to be broken, but it lets you import an RSS feed from another source into the course. What I didn't get to show is that there is a lot of good in-line help on each of the tools.
Overall thoughts - most of the basic features are present, but there are several things that were confusing such as the "Modules" tab. I didn't like that all of the tools were separated without a good way to link them into what I would consider to be a natural academic workflow for a student or instructor. I didn't see a good way to rename or reorder the list of tools. Also, the course blog feed seemed to be broken, but it lets you import an RSS feed from another source into the course. What I didn't get to show is that there is a lot of good in-line help on each of the tools.
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