Scholar
Designed by higher education for higher education, the Scholar system is Virginia Tech’s learning and collaboration management system. With capabilities designed to support project sites and resource sharing, Scholar extends the functions of a course management system like Blackboard with research, collaboration, and Web 2.0 features, all coupled with an enhanced ePortfolio for assessment and accreditation projects.
Scholar is Virginia Tech’s brand for the Sakai open source software. Sakai is a software platform for innovation collaboratively developed by universities including Virginia Tech along with Michigan, Georgia Tech, Indiana, Virginia, Cambridge, Stanford, UC-Berkeley, UC-Davis, Rutgers, Yale, Cape Town, and others. By keeping development within the academic community, control of ongoing development and improvements remains within and serves the academic community. Because Sakai/Scholar is open source, participative institutions have greater input into its development path and feature set and this ensures its continued relevancy to the university community. Scholar is robust and enables Virginia Tech to manage its own destiny relative to online learning technologies as never before.
For more information about Scholar, please visit the Scholar website at http://scholar.vt.edu or contact us via http://4help.vt.edu
Scholar
2230 Torgersen Hall
Campus Mail Code (0292)
Blacksburg, VA 24061