In Sakai version 23, users will observe a change to the user interface that will affect where you look to access the sites that you are enrolled in. In all earlier versions of Sakai, a list of "favorite" sites appeared  across the top of the top of the Sakai website. In Sakai version 23, all site navigation will take place in a navigation pane appearing on the left side of the website and instead of using an icon of a star to mark your "favorite" sites you will now see an icon of a pin to indicate "pinned" sites. The screenshot in this article shows you what the navigation pane in Sakai 23 will look like with the exception that your list of pinned courses will be different.  

When you log-in to Sakai, you will be able to easily locate your current course sites by looking at the list of pinned sites on the left side of the screen. Each semester when new course sites are created, they are automatically pinned (up to a total of 15 sites) for you.  

No "favorite" sites will carry over as "pinned" sites from Sakai 22 to Sakai 23. You will need access the list of all the sites you are enrolled in to pin any that you wish to add to your your list of pinned sites (up to a total of 15). You may want to do this for club, committee, departmental, or organizational sites that you frequently access. 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 black 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. This will add the site to your pinned list at the bottom and 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 do so from the "View All Sites" page by clicking on the "Organize Pinned" tab. 

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. Once you've clicked the pin, the site will no longer be listed with your other pinned sites. 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 need. 

For student users, course sites are not available to you unless the faculty member has published the site. Some faculty will publish their site days or even a week 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 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, please check with your faculty member to make sure that it has been published before submitting a help ticket. 

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