A 1-up for UNC

Last week, the Daily Tarheel reported that the ITS Executive Steering Committee passed a motion to begin a three-year transition to Sakai. This is a big 1-up for the pilot and for our campus. We look forward to working with faculty, staff and students to listen, learn, and leverage the wealth of expertise that exists at UNC. We are already seeing creative innovations spread through departments (we will share those with you here soon).  This change also brings new opportunities to connect with the Sakai community and the great work being done on Sakai 2.x as well as on the Open Academic Environment (formerly Sakai 3). It is an exciting time for learning and collaboration @ UNC!

In case you missed them, here are some recent articles from the DTH:

• ITS votes to transition from Blackboard to Sakai by 2014
• Sakai a safe bet: A cheaper alternative to Blackboard, Sakai accomplishes more for less
• Educators compare Sakai, Blackboard systems
• Switch from Blackboard to Sakai a good move

Micro-tutorial: Copy & Paste Files Across Sakai Sites

One of the benefits of Sakai is that it allows you to upload a file once and easily move it within or across your sites.

Whether you are a student, faculty or staff member, this tip is useful and simple. Take a minute (literally) to find out how!

We tip our hats to the Carolina Digital Story Lab for inspiring us to embed this tutorial in a hypothetical mini-story. You can learn more about this innovative student group @ http://www.uncstorylab.org/.