Overview
What is Sakai?
Sakai is an open source learning management system provided by the Apero Foundation. The LMS provides what it calls Core and Expanded Features. The Core Features encompass an integrated tool set that is tested by the Sakai community members and is then included with…
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Sakai
Collaborative learning environment at its best!
Our university uses Sakai as an open-source learning and collaboration management system for our students, as well as faculty and staff.
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Why Sakai? It's a great fit!
Popular Features
- Learning content (5)8.080%
- Course authoring (5)8.080%
- Progress tracking & certifications (5)8.080%
- Mobile friendly (5)7.070%
Pricing
What is Sakai?
Sakai is an open source learning management system provided by the Apero Foundation. The LMS provides what it calls Core and Expanded Features. The Core Features encompass an integrated tool set that is tested by the Sakai community members and is then included with each new release. The tool set…
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- Free Trial
- Free/Freemium Version
- Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Features
Learning Management
Features of LMS and LCMS systems, related to designing, administering, and consuming learning content in an educational, corporate, or on-the-job context.
- 8Course authoring(5) Ratings
Users can develop and assemble online learning content.
- 7Course catalog or library(4) Ratings
Learning content is organized into a course catalog or browsable library.
- 8Player/Portal(2) Ratings
Students or employees can engage with content and take courses using this interface, which may be called a player or portal.
- 8Learning content(5) Ratings
The vendor offers high quality pre-made courses or assets. These may be specific to certain industries or technologies.
- 7Mobile friendly(5) Ratings
Students or employees can access content from mobile devices. Course authors can develop responsive learning content.
- 8Progress tracking & certifications(5) Ratings
The system tracks individuals’ progress on courses, scores, transcripts, certificates, etc.
- 10Assignments(5) Ratings
Users can assign courses/curricula to individuals or groups, with due dates.
- 7Compliance management(4) Ratings
Users can identify potential risks and ensure that requirements are met and that certifications are up to date.
- 9Learning administration(5) Ratings
Administrators can manage the content and people (students/employees, course authors, instructors, etc.) on the platform.
- 6Learning reporting & analytics(5) Ratings
Provides insights into course completion, engagement with learning content, etc.
- 9Social learning(4) Ratings
Includes features for collaboration and knowledge sharing among peers.
Product Details
- About
- Integrations
- Tech Details
What is Sakai?
Sakai Video
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(22)Community Insights
- Recommendations
Users recommend exploring Sakai thoroughly and spending time on it to discover its useful functions. They suggest attending Sakai community events and talking to other institutions using the platform to learn more about its pros and cons.
Users advise knowing the customization limitations of Sakai and coming up with creative solutions to make it suit your class or project's needs. They recommend testing Sakai with real courses and faculty before switching to ensure it meets user requirements.
Users suggest integrating Sakai with other tools like Piazza for additional functionality and comparing Sakai to other services with better support. They recommend considering alternatives and choosing the system that best suits your needs.
Overall, users emphasize the need for thorough exploration, customization, testing, and consideration of alternatives when using Sakai.
Attribute Ratings
Reviews
(1-3 of 3)- The Sakai product is "REAL" open source project that is part of the Apereo Foundation. It is the only LMS on the market where students, faculty, and staff can have a say on how Sakai evolves. It is a responsive and vibrant community based product.
- Sakai is technically rock solid, scalable, and robust.
- The possibilities of Sakai are endless with LTI (Learning Tools Integration).
- Sakai is highly customizable, configurable, and can be automated easily where other LMS's can not, especially those hosted in the cloud.
- Sakai has a bit of improvement to do in standardizing some of its tools.
- There is the perception that Sakai is hard to install and administer, this needs to be worked on.
- Built in video conference functionality would be excellent for Sakai.
- Sakai needs to handle rich media types better.
- Course authoring
- 90%9.0
- Course catalog or library
- 90%9.0
- Player/Portal
- 90%9.0
- Learning content
- 100%10.0
- Mobile friendly
- 100%10.0
- Progress tracking & certifications
- 80%8.0
- Assignments
- 100%10.0
- Compliance management
- 100%10.0
- Learning administration
- 100%10.0
- Learning reporting & analytics
- 90%9.0
- Social learning
- 80%8.0
- The ability to self host and customize Sakai has led to greater efficiencies and reliability.
- In all Sakai's cost of ownership is much less than dealing with an ASP and/or cloud solution.
- Sakai is continuing to improve over the years. Innovation is always happening.
- Canvas, Blackboard and Moodle
- Provide a digital / online course management system.
- Provide a project based platform that can be used beyond that of the semester frame time.
- Sakai provides and works as an academic repository of sorts.
- Because we keep instructors courses available for about 7 years, hot online, it is like an academic repository.
- Sakai has project sites. These are fantastic collaborative workspaces.
- We share our installation across 6 institutions and use a single logon and it works!
- I think that it will be used to server more media type content.
- Social networking and co-curricular things are likely to increase.
- Hey, its an LMS, and it is the best of them.
Sakai
- Organization of content
- Customization of course navigation and content
- Small learning curve compared to other systems
- Ease of use and customization of ePortfolio
- Tests and Quizzes
- ePortfolio
- Ability to customize the system to meet the needs of faculty and learners
- Greater cost to the university as a whole than a hosted platform
- Ability to easily design courses based on pedagogy
- Blackboard, D2L and Moodle
- building community
- facilitating learning experiences
- collaborating on research
- to create an ongoing community of learners within a subject area
- N/A
- Price
- Product Usability
- Implemented in-house
- hold outs
- transitioning material from Blackboard
- Tests/quizzes
- posting material
- discussion boards
- ePortfolio
- Easy to Use Basic Online Learning System: Sakai does the basics for learning online well. Outlining course lecture material uploading, linking for faculty, forums for students
- Pragmatic Text Based System: Sakai is solid for text based assignments, both student entry and faculty presentation and overview.
- Familiar Interface: The Interface for Sakai will be more immediately familiar to both faculty teachers and students as the model is well established in interface design.
- Lack of Multimedia Features: Sakai is not great for video integration, either uploading or chat based video or integrating new video features into the interface and shell. It is not particularly good for say recording audio or more sophisticated multimedia integration.
- Lack of Web 2.0 features. Sakai is not great as a Web 2.0 social media learning application. It is definitely from an early but still present model of learning management systems and has remnants of its first generation architecture.
- Lack of User Experience Design: Sakai is basic in its user interface design. In this way it is approximately a generation back with regards to web 2.0 interface design or higher attention to 'learning' design aesthetics and integrating with online 'learning methodologies.
- For American Public University System, Sakai seemed an effective tool. As with any technology though, times change and with changing times comes new technological possibilities. At its implementation stage, Sakai had a positive effect in adding to the ROI and is built as a desktop online learning system. Currently, there are many competitors in the market probably worth looking at further if one wishes to push the leading edge with regards to mobile possibilities, multimedia etc.
- Sakai was useful as a resource system in tying online library resources to the university online curriculum. It allowed for library/university curriculum connections that otherwise would not be possible. We actually won several awards with our Sakai/Online Library/Libguides online curriculum integration.
- For an online for-profit university in the early days of online learning Sakai was a great tool. For land based universities transitioning to online learning modalities, Sakai is still a fair option in terms of hybrid learning possibilities and enabling an online resource folder for every physical class. Sakai is definitely not leading edge but more proven system stability undergoing versioning processes.
- Online Learning: Teaching Classes (Main Framework)
- Archiving Classes: Main Framework
- Courses and Larger Undergraduate and Graduate Degree Programs
- Sakai was used as a framework for a larger faculty MOOC (APUS)
- Sakai was used as a shell for resources for hybrid physical/online classes (Texas State)
- Sakai was used for large section introductory university classes (introduction to Research, Freshman experience etc)
- Expansion of physical classes into online modalities
- Non traditional workshops
- Frameworks for learning symposia
- Adding Forum Comments
- Setting up Textual Assignments
- Submitting assignments
- Multimedia is challenging in Sakai
- Web 2.0 collaborative functions are challenging in Sakai
- Mobile Learning possibilities are challenging in the Sakai interface