Site navigation takes place in a navigation pane appearing on the left side of the website. This pane is always viewable from a desktop computer but will collapse by default in a mobile view. The navigation pane includes a list "pinned" sites that the user can customize to keep frequently visited sites in a prominent place. At the bottom of the navigation pane you can see a option to "view all my sites" which will open a new window which displays all the sites you have access to, whether you've chose to add them to your "pinned" list or not. The screenshot in this article shows you what the navigation pane in Sakai looks like.  

It may be useful to revisit your "pinned" list each semester. You may want to change which sites you have marked for easy access as new new course sites are created and you complete work in older sites. You can find the list of all the sites you're enrolled in, in two places on the Sakai website. The first is at the very bottom of the navigation pane that appears on the left side of your screen, as you can see in the screenshot. The other way is to click on the 3x3 grid of boxes that appears in the upper-right side of the Sakai website, near your profile picture. Once you've located the site you want to add to your pinned list, click on the pin icon that appears next to the site title. If you wish to remove a site from your pinned list you can do so by clicking the pin icon that appears next to the site title. Once you reload Sakai the changes to your pinned list will appear. If you wish to change the order of the sites in your pinned list you can also do this from the "View All Sites" page by clicking on the "Organize Pinned" tab. Once there simply drag and drop the sites in the order you want. You may find it helpful to do this each term to make sure that your current courses are at the top of the list. 

It can be very easy to accidentally remove a site from your pinned list. All you have to do is click on the pin next to the course title, there is no warning that prompts you to make sure you really want to make this change. Often Sakai users think that they no longer have access to a site if it doesn't appear in their pinned list, for most of these instances the course is accessible by viewing all your sites and re-pinning the one you want to appear in your pinned list. 

Student users will not see a course site until the faculty member has published the site. Some faculty will publish their site a week or a few days before the course begins, other faculty will not publish the site until the first meeting, and other faculty opt not to use Sakai at all. At the end of a semester, some faculty will unpublish sites while other faculty will leave their sites published allowing you to continue accessing content even after the semester ends. If you cannot access a course site that you believe you should have access to, please check with your faculty member to make sure that it is published before submitting a help ticket. 

If you have questions about your navigating or accessing various sites in Sakai, please submit a help ticket for further assistance.