For each category, this column will contain a numbered list of Sakai features not available, or not activated, in WebCT.

Thus column will contain a numbered list of WebCT features that are not available in Sakai. Where work-arounds are possible, the percentage feature given indicated my very rough estimate of the amount of functionality that can be re-captured using those workarounds. No indication of the amount of extra effort required to achieve this percentage is given, since this would depend upon the workaround chosen and the technical knowledge of the individual faculty member.

1. Wiki
2. My Workspace

1. Student Presentations - 80% work-around

1. RSS feed
2. Podcasts
3. Announcements - 120% workaround
4. Repeated Calendar Entries

1. Whiteboard
2. Course News
3. Discussion topics created by student with identification
4. Forum archiving
5. Flag indicating new forum postings does not seem to be working, though the help claims this feature is available from My Workspace
6. Searchable Forum Postings
7. Calendar that can import/export entries
8. Tips
9. Glossary that can be hot-linked to terms in content pages
10. Student Home Page - 25% workaround

1. Quiz or Test that can be given outside Sakai if necessary
2. Quiz database that stores questions that can be used in multiple quizzes and updated in a single location.
3. Searchable quiz questions
4. Quiz navigation that remains onscreen when quiz questions are displayed one at a time with review allowed. This is a usability issue on the student side. Getting from one question to another by way of the TOC takes a minimum of 3 clicks, more if the quiz is divided into sections.
5. Calculated questions types with allowable error, units
6. Option to display feedback automatically when quiz is submitted. Again, this is just a minor student usability issue. Student must READ exit message and choose to view their feedback.

1. Section awareness

1. Calculated gradebook column - 25% workaround
2. Alphanumeric gradebook column - 5% workaround
3. Group creation based on roster and desired group size or number of groups. - 100% workaround
4. Gradebook containing a mix of column types. If you make one column a letter grade, they must ALL be letter grades.
5. Fully functioning import/export to Excel- import/export of csv DOES exist in Sakai, but with very severe limitations, which render it useless as a solution in scenarios I expect to be most common. Will not suffice as a workaround for fixing uneditable columns, nor will it enable faculty to create non-supported column types such as alphanumeric.
6. Missing Gradebook column types
   1. alphanumeric
   2. text
   3. selection box
   4. calculated column other than final grade (see workaround for final grade calculations)
7. MyProgress
8. Updatable linked quiz column. This means that if a student takes a Sakai generated quiz outside of Sakai for any reason, it will be IMPOSSIBLE to give that student a grade within Sakai, even using the export/import feature. There is a workaround for Assignments/Gradebook, but none for quizzing.
9. Track Students

1. Assignment that is seamlessly integrated with the gradebook - 75% workaround

1. Organizer Pages -75% workaround
2. Image database - 10% workaround
3. Content module that supports any of the following features
1. note-taking
2. glossary links [confirmed use 1]
3. quizzing [confirmed use 2]
4. self-test
5. discussion
6. chat
7. search
8. mail
9. bookmarks
10. resume
11. selective release [confirmed use 1]
12. table of contents visible from every module page [confirmed use 1]
    1. work-around possible in Resources, but not easy or maintainable.

1. Customize look and feel of authored pages with Banners, fonts and colors - 50% workaround
2. Customize link icons - 100% workaround
3. Customize look and feel of built-in tools

1. No javascript support means EOLAS workaround will not function. Any plugin content will be accompanied by annoying instruction to "click to activate this control". No big deal. Will not be a problem on external pages.
2. Relative links to multimedia content will be broken when Sakai copies content rather than pointing to it. This would impact Melete content, copied syllabus content, attachments to forum postings, perhaps others. Sakai does not notified authors when it copies files.

1. Zip/Unzip multiple files for efficient transfer - 90% workaround
2. User-Friendly Search - 40% workaround
3. Selective Release of links based on tasks an individual student has completed
4. Context sensitive help
5. Role sensitive help
6. Locally stored backup
7. Tool set-up Wizard
8. Track Pages
9. CD-ROM tool

33 with no work-around (counting all missing Content Modules features as a single gap)

44 total with no work-around

9 with partial work-around - avg 53%

1 with full work-around