Video Tutorial: Citations Helper

This tool helps you to manage citations and create lists that can be attached to assignments, discussion postings, calendar items, etc. See the 3-minute tutorial for more.

Why use Citations Helper to create citation lists? Because it allows you to search online library databases and create and manage citations and links to online articles and other online material. Each citation retrieves the full-text or physical location of the linked information.

After creating a citation list, you may attach it to items such as assignments, discussion postings, calendar items, etc. You may also export citations.

Who is using Sakai?

The short answer: A lot of universities and organizations (see this map).

However, let’s look at our peers; other top tier national research universities.

Here are the US News & World Report rankings for the 2009 Top Public Universities:

1. University of California-Berkeley
2. University of Virginia
3. UCLA
4. University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
5. UNC-Chapel Hill

What do they have in common? Open source.

Berkeley, Michigan, and Virginia are Sakai campuses. UCLA uses Moodle.

What is Sakai?

Sakai is a community-source collaborative learning environment (or, CLE). It is an enterprise-ready collaboration and courseware management platform that provides users with a suite of learning, portfolio, library and project tools.

The official site is http://sakaiproject.org.