Sakai: directions for non-Rutgers participants
If you are invited to participate in a Sakai site hosted at Rutgers, you will receive an email message containing your temporary password. If you don't see that message, you might want to check your spam folder.
- Log into Sakai with your full email address (e.g., abc123@yahoo.com) and the password from the email message at http://sakai.rutgers.edu
- If you can't find the password that was sent to you, you can request a password change but only with the email address at which you were invited
- FIRST, change your password to something private that you can remember:
- From the "My Workspace" tab, click Account
- Click "Modify Details"
- Enter your new password twice
- Click "Update Details"
- Now explore your new project site. You'll see the site to which you've been invited as a "tab" along the top, next to the "My Workspace" tab
- Click on the site tab
- Notice the tools down the left-hand column (different sites may offer different tools). Some common tools include:
- HOME - may include course description and recent announcements, or other info
- ANNOUNCEMENTS - generally displays all the announcements made by your lead during the semester
- RESOURCES - most common repository for documents, including readings, PowerPoint lectures, web links, etc. Click on the document you want, then choose "open" or "save"
- DISCUSSION - bulletin-board-style discussions. Click on the forum you'd like to read and click the "New Topic" button to create a new thread.
- Be sure to log off when you're done with Sakai, from the top-right corner
