Are you a new student at DUSON? Most of your classes will have a Sakai site. Here is some helpful information about how to set up preferences and notifications to keep you organized. Returning student? Read below for a refresher on time-saving Sakai tips.

Organize Your Work in Sakai

The Sakai Waffle Icon allows you to:

• Designate current, active Sakai sites as Favorites

• Change the order of the sites you see in the top tabs

• Hide sites when you no longer need to access them regularly

You may also want to try:

• Importing browser bookmarks and uploading frequently used files to My Workspace Resources

• Printing/saving a report of your semester’s grades in Gradebook

• Associating up to 10 pictures with your Profile

Manage Your Schedule and Email

Your Sakai home page Calendar can be personalized to:

• Customize the fields (e.g., start time, end time, duration) that are visible

• Merge all of the due dates and other information from your course calendars to appear on your Sakai home page Calendar

• Create a link that posts Sakai Calendar items on your Gmail or Outlook calendar

• Associate colors with items to indicate different priority levels

You are in charge of how you receive communications from Sakai.  You can set Notifications to send Sakai messages to you:

• One at a time

• At the end of the day

• Whenever a change is posted to a Forum, Wiki, or Syllabus page

• Never (provided the message is marked “low priority”)

• Click here to go to sakai.duke.edu

• Click the yellow Login to Sakai button

• Login with your NetID credentials

• Personalize your Profile, Calendar, Resources, or Preferences by choosing each from the left nav on your Home page

The Sakai community offers a wealth of resources to help you explore using Sakai tools. Visit:

• How-to Videos for Students (UNC)

• Sakai YouTube Channel (Notre Dame)

• Student Guide (Longsight)

Have any questions about this or other tech used at DUSON?

Here’s our Tech Tip of the Week –

Windows 10 has a neat feature called Virtual Desktops.

These are helpful if you use your computer for both work and school.  Or maybe you share your computer with a child?  Virtual Desktops give you a way to have multiple, separate desktops that can each display different open windows and apps. 

Click the Windows Key + Tab –

1. All of your open windows will display in a single page;

2. At the top of the window, you will see each desktop –

   1. Select the “+” to add a new one;

Once you have your new desktops created, switch between them with Ctrl+Win+Right/Left. 

Want to learn more?  Click here for a detailed article that will help you learn more about Windows 10 Virtual Desktops.

As always, if you have any technical questions or problems, please contact your IT Service Desk at 919-684-9200, or email to citdl@mc.duke.edu.