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Scholar is the Virginia Tech deployment of Sakai. "Sakai is a set of software tools designed to help instructors, researchers, and students create websites for collaboration." Sakai is [[Free Software]] jointly developed by Virginia Tech, Michigan, Indiana, Virginia, Cambridge, Stanford, the University of California-Berkeley, Rutgers, Yale, Georgia Tech, University of Cape Town, and others. Scholar is running concurrently with [[Blackboard]] for the fall 2009 semester but will become the only online course tool beginning spring 2010.
Since [[Learning Technologies]] seemed always slow to upgrade [[Blackboard]] versions, certain features unavailable in the deployed BB version, such as RSS feeds, may be welcomed by the more tech-savvy students. During spring and fall 2009, professors had the option of using Scholar, but many chose not to, some citing fears of bugs.
=History=
Version 1.0 of Sakai was released in March 2005. Scholar became available for production use on January 29th, 2009.
=Technical Details=
Sakai is Java-based. It is licensed under the [[w:Educational Community License|Educational Community License]], which [[w:GPLv3|GPLv3]] compatible.
=See Also=
* [[w:Sakai Project]]
* [[Blackboard]]
=Links=
* Scholar Login
* [https://scholar.vt.edu/portal/site/!gateway/page/!gateway-200 Scholar About Page]
* [[FC@VT]] [http://vt.freeculture.org/2009/02/07/scholar-online/ Blog Entry]
* [http://www.vtnews.vt.edu/campus_notices/campusnotice.php?item=2381 Campus Notice Regarding Blackboard to Scholar Migration]
* [http://sakaiproject.org/sakai-community-map Sakai Community Map]
[[Category:Free cultural works on campus]]
[[Category:Campus computing resources]]
[[Category:Software]]
Since [[Learning Technologies]] seemed always slow to upgrade [[Blackboard]] versions, certain features unavailable in the deployed BB version, such as RSS feeds, may be welcomed by the more tech-savvy students. During spring and fall 2009, professors had the option of using Scholar, but many chose not to, some citing fears of bugs.
=History=
Version 1.0 of Sakai was released in March 2005. Scholar became available for production use on January 29th, 2009.
=Technical Details=
Sakai is Java-based. It is licensed under the [[w:Educational Community License|Educational Community License]], which [[w:GPLv3|GPLv3]] compatible.
=See Also=
* [[w:Sakai Project]]
* [[Blackboard]]
=Links=
* Scholar Login
* [https://scholar.vt.edu/portal/site/!gateway/page/!gateway-200 Scholar About Page]
* [[FC@VT]] [http://vt.freeculture.org/2009/02/07/scholar-online/ Blog Entry]
* [http://www.vtnews.vt.edu/campus_notices/campusnotice.php?item=2381 Campus Notice Regarding Blackboard to Scholar Migration]
* [http://sakaiproject.org/sakai-community-map Sakai Community Map]
[[Category:Free cultural works on campus]]
[[Category:Campus computing resources]]
[[Category:Software]]
