This book is the officially endorsed sakai guide. From setting up and running sakai for the first time to creatively using its tools this book delivers everything you need to know. Written by alan berg senior developer at the ic http www.Ic.Uva.Nl and a sakai fellow and michael korcuska the executive director of the sakai foundation and with significant contributions from the sakai community this book is a comprehensive study of how sakai should be used managed and maintained. Sakai represents a collaboration and learning environment that provides the means of managing users courses instructors and facilities as well as a spectrum of tools including assessment grading and messaging. Sakai is loaded with many handy software tools which help you in online collaboration. You can improve your coursework using features that supplement and enhance teaching and learning. You can use tools that will help you organize your communication and collaborative work. The book also discusses courses that have won awards displays a rogues gallery of 30 active members of the community and describes what motivates management at the university of amsterdam to buy into sakai. Finally the executive director of the sakai foundation looks towards the future. What you will learn from this book set up maintain and run sakai in your learning institution discover what tools exist and how to employ them effectively use web services to connect to other systems understand how sakai can scale to support hundreds of thousands of students learn best practices to avoid common pitfalls approach the book takes a stepbystep practical approach and is filled with examples and illustrations. Who this book is written for this book is written for a wide audience that includes teachers system administrators and first time developers. It will also appeal to the sakai open source community potential community members and educations decision makers.