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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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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 can be configured by: instructors,
students, research investigators and project leaders. The other set of tools, known as “Contrib
Tools” are specific to Sakai tools and innovations that are developed and tested by
community members and are then made available for others to use outside of the
packaged Sakai product releases.
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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.
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Sakai is being used as an LMS at Pomona College as well as the Claremont University Consortium which includes four other undergraduate colleges and one graduate institution. The business problem that it addresses is that of providing learning materials to students, creating interactive and collaborative environments for students, faculty, and staff, as well a number of additional instructional activities.
- 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.
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- 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
Every few years we evaluate LMSs. Each time Sakai comes out ahead due to cost, customizations, and the Sakai community. We like to keep things in house because it allows us an extra amount of reliability and control that you will have to give up when running most other solutions. Sakai is an LMS that is here for the long run. They can not be purchased by anyone and it does not look like it will go away any time in the intermediate future. There is much stability in Sakai.
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Sakai is used in the context of higher education. We host courses across 5 undergraduate institutions and about 2600 courses each semester. Over the decade of use we have hosted over 65,000 course and project sites. Sakai has been very economical and the development community is the best. It is one of the few LMS projects out there that continues to evolve.
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We have one full time person who supports Sakai at the system administration level. Also, there are about six other people who use about 5-15% of their time offering support to Sakai users. These support people are instructional technologists who must be familiar with Sakai from an advanced user perspective.
- 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.
October 31, 2019
Sakai -- The Mighty Have Fallen
Sakai is currently the Learning Management System (LMS) across campus. It is used for all learning management needs and is the hub for third-party plugins.
- Open-source community.
- Flexible.
- As customizable as you can afford.
- No mobile app.
- Confusing and unintuitive layout and buried settings.
- Lacking full 3rd-party integrations.
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- Sakai continues to serve the university, and faculty and students are mostly satisfied with it.
- The cost to support has been good in the past.
- As the market share slows, it's often the last to be developed by popular third-party integrations.
- Canvas
Sakai will check most of the same boxes as Canvas as far as features. Students can receive feedback, emails, comments, grade and submit assignments, etc. However, everything is going to be a bit more difficult with Sakai. Finding something will take more clicks. Sakai is more flexible since it's open-source. If there's a feature you really need, you can develop it yourself (at your own risk). Integrations with third parties are much easier and faster with Canvas than Sakai.
February 05, 2016
Sakai
Sakai was used as a the sole learning management system at our university for the purposes of managing learning and research projects. Currently, our university is transitioning away from Sakai toward Canvas.
- 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
I did not personally select Sakai. However, it is fairly easy to use and customize. That being said, this product is being abandoned by developers/universities and should not be adopted by an organization.
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These are faculty, staff and students at our university who are still using Sakai. Our campus is now transitioning to Canvas.
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These employees were valuable in their ability to relate to the needs of faculty, staff, and students. In addition, employees almost always went above and beyond the call of duty to support client use of Sakai.
- building community
- facilitating learning experiences
- collaborating on research
- to create an ongoing community of learners within a subject area
- N/A
Yes
Blackboard was replaced due to their focus on k-12 and increasing cost.
- Price
- Product Usability
The most important factor was the ability to become a developer school for Sakai, having direct influence on the product and being able to incorporate the needs of faculty and staff.
I was not part of this process.
- Implemented in-house
Yes
It was a very long transition, which helped get most faculty and staff on board.
- hold outs
- transitioning material from Blackboard
Yes
Our developers and technical support were quick to remedy the issue or find a work around.
I don't know what Apereo is.
- Tests/quizzes
- posting material
- discussion boards
- ePortfolio
No