Towards Adapting Sakai for e-Learning Provider

Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) is an emerging method in online education. Sakai is a popular open source platform widely used by e-learning providers to offer MOOC. Sakai provides a set of collaborative tools for teachers, learners and researchers to support teaching, learning and research. For using Sakai, the e-learning provider needs to customize and adapt the interface of Sakai, like, banner, logo, background color etc. to suit their requirement. This paper presents the development of a tool named SkinChanger that facilitates customizing of Sakai interface, based on need of the e-learning provider. SkinChanger customizes the appearance of Sakai body, header and footer. It facilitates skin changing by providing a user friendly interface. SkinChanger is component-based tool and can be plug-in. This paper illustrates the use of tool to customize the Sakai interface for University of Delhi.