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Navigation

Logging In

My Workspace

  • This first window you see when you login is called My Workspace. This site is your personal user space, it is not a course site.

    Interface of Sakai@UD

    1. Logout link.
    2. Site Tabs: The site tabs give you access to your course or project sites. The white tab is your active site. If you have access to more than five sites, a My Active Sites tab will appear and give you access to your currently available sites.
      Note: Hidden sites will not show up on My Active Sites
    3. Menubar: The menubar lists a particular site's tools.
    4. Users Present: The "Users Present" area shows the name of the other users who are presently on this specific site.
    5. Content Area: This zone is reserved to display of the content of a tool or site.
    6. Bottom Links: See below.

  • Your worksites are accessible through site tabs at the top of the page under the banner. You can hide/reveal and customize the order of your tabs: go to My Workspace, click Preferences and then click Customize Tabs.

    Screenshot of Course Tabs

  • You can upload personal files and look at a dashboard view of all the activity in all your courses. See the My Workspace Help Topic for more information.

Bottom Links

  • Every Sakai page includes a set of useful links, located in the footer area at the bottom of the page. Use these links to navigate quickly to tools such as your email, P.O. Box, Dropbox, UDSIS, etc. If you have a comment or a question about Sakai@UD, please use the Contact IT link.

    Bottom links screenshot

Content Navigation and Options

  • Two icons are used throughout Sakai@UD: the Help icon and the Reset icon.

    Help Icon Help Located at the top right of a tool, next to the title. The Help icon is a contextualized link to the help files.
    Reset Icon Reset Located at the top left of a tool. The Reset icon brings you back to the main page of a specific tool.

  • Depending on the tool and of your permissions as a user, you might also have access to a tool-specific option bar.

    Tool Option Bar

  • Do not use your browser's "Back" button in Sakai. You should always use the on-screen navigation and links as much as possible.