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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 has not been running the latest version of [[Blackboard]] versions, certain which has features unavailable in the deployed BB version, such as RSS feeds, may the lack of suite-wide support in Sakai for RSS feeds should not be missed. Anyone interested in writing these or other features would likely be welcomed by Sakai community. The administrators at Virginia Tech responsible for the more tech-savvy studentsSakai deployment here have expressed some willingness to deploy additional modules. 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 at Virginia Tech on January 29th, 2009.
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