Sakai -- The Mighty Have Fallen
October 31, 2019
Sakai -- The Mighty Have Fallen
Score 4 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Sakai
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.
- 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.
Do you think Sakai delivers good value for the price?
Not sure
Are you happy with Sakai's feature set?
No
Did Sakai live up to sales and marketing promises?
No
Did implementation of Sakai go as expected?
Yes
Would you buy Sakai again?
No