{"id":639,"date":"2005-12-19T08:50:19","date_gmt":"2005-12-19T16:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edtechpost.ca\/wordpress\/2005\/12\/19\/unicon-provides-sakai-test-drive-sites\/"},"modified":"2005-12-19T08:50:19","modified_gmt":"2005-12-19T16:50:19","slug":"unicon-provides-sakai-test-drive-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wordpress\/2005\/12\/19\/unicon-provides-sakai-test-drive-sites\/","title":{"rendered":"Unicon provides Sakai &#8216;Test Drive&#8217; sites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sakaitestdrive.com\/\">http:\/\/www.sakaitestdrive.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t already had the chance, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.unicon.net\/\">Unicon<\/a> has made it even easier to have a look at Sakai 2.1 (just released on December 1, 2005) through their new &#8220;Test Drive&#8221; sites. The sites, available for free for 90 days, give you access to a demo course and worksite and allow you to change roles so as to see the system from various user perspectives. The background here is that Unicon once developed a CMS on top of uPortal called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edutools.info\/course\/productinfo\/detail.jsp?id=155\">Academus<\/a>, but appear to now be piggybacking on offering Sakai support and other uPortal support based on their years&#8217; of experience.<\/p>\n<p>This will not change anyones&#8217; mind who had already decided they were not down with the &#8216;course managed&#8217; approach, but for those looking for an alternative to their current CMS, this provides one more method to kick the tires, and just in time for Christmas! &#8211; <em>SWL<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.sakaitestdrive.com\/ If you haven&#8217;t already had the chance, Unicon has made it even easier to have a look at Sakai 2.1 (just released on December 1, 2005) through their new &#8220;Test Drive&#8221; sites. The sites, available for free for 90 days, give you access to a demo course and worksite and allow you to change &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wordpress\/2005\/12\/19\/unicon-provides-sakai-test-drive-sites\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Unicon provides Sakai &#8216;Test Drive&#8217; sites&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[63,301,361],"class_list":["post-639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-course-management-systems","tag-cms","tag-open_source","tag-sakai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}