Sakai

Sakai

22 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Sakai	Score8.7 out of 10	N/A	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…	N/A

Pricing

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Pricing Offerings
Sakai
Free Trial
No
Free/Freemium Version
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
No

No setup fee

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Community Pulse
Key User Insights
	Sakai
Considered Both Products	Apereo Sarah Daggett Lecturer, Department of Communication & Theatre at Pacific Lutheran University (Higher Education, 501-1000 employees) Chose Sakai Before using Sakai, we used Blackboard. Ultimately, I think moving to Sakai was a financial decision (it was cheaper), but I believe it ended up being better accepted by faculty and students as well. At the time (this was several years ago), Blackboard's UI wasn't as … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Sakai 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Chani Loeb Administrative Assistant in Customer Service at Bais HaMedrash & Mesivta of Baltimore (Education Management, 11-50 employees) Chose Sakai Courses are organized into tabs. Teachers use the program to list assignments with due dates for students in each course. Students use the program to upload assignments before they are due. Teachers upload syllabi along which the students can follow the progress of the … Incentivized Helpful? Dave Eveland Instructional Designer/Technologist in Information Technology at Johnson University (Higher Education, 501-1000 employees) Chose Sakai When considering an LMS there are multiple factors to consider, and typically those factors are not co-equal amongst all stakeholders. Some institutions select an LMS based on C-Level directive; others narrow the field based on feedback from the largest constituent user base or … Incentivized Helpful? Keira Dooley E-Learning Developer in Information Technology at Design by Dooley (E-Learning, 201-500 employees) Chose Sakai Sakai and Moodle seem to be neck and neck. I much prefer a proper LMS over a WordPress LMS Plugin. Sakai was much more robust than a simple plugin solution. Incentivized Helpful? Terry Golightly Assistant Director Online Instructional Design & Technology at Kentucky Christian University (Higher Education, 51-200 employees) Chose Sakai We were for a year or two on WebCT, which has been acquired by Blackboard. It was hard to learn and difficult to administer. Changing to Sakai not only meant a great deal of financial savings, but it was easier to use and more responsive to institutional and consortial needs. … Incentivized Helpful? Jason Smith, DPA Instructional Technologist in Information Technology at Pomona College (Higher Education, 201-500 employees) Chose Sakai 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Andi Sciacca Faculty Member at The Food Business School (Higher Education, 51-200 employees) Chose Sakai I was not part of the selection committee, but I believe the ability to white label Sakai was very significant to the choice being made. In another institution I taught (not the one in which I used Sakai) the decision was made to go with MoodleRooms due to the need for support … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Sakai We selected Sakai for our purposes (copyright/IP education) because students were familiar with the interface and the assessments worked just as desired. Though Canvas could serve as an ideal alternative and is used robustly here at UD, we have chosen Sakai for its familiarity … Incentivized Helpful? Raymond J. Uzwyshyn Director, Library Digital & Collection Services in Information Technology at Texas State University (Higher Education, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Sakai Sakai is a fair competitor to other online learning systems (i.e. Blackboard, Canvas, Desire-to-Learn). Essentially, Sakai is simply a different flavor of similar models for online learning management systems. It is more different from Moodle and Moodle's social networking … Incentivized Helpful? Samantha J. Blevins Instructor in Information Technology at Radford University (Higher Education, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose Sakai 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. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Sakai As an adjunct professor, I didn't pick Sakai for the university. I have experience with Moodle, Blackboard, eCollege, iBoard and now Sakai. I would have to say that Sakai is one of my all time favorite LMSs to use as it is very easy to navigate. Incentivized Helpful? Becky Roehrs Distance Learning Coordinator/Learning Technologies Specialist in Information Technology at Durham Technical Community College (Higher Education, 501-1000 employees) Chose Sakai Our faculty found Moodle difficult to use-we tried at least two different releases of it with different vendors. It may have changed greatly since we worked with it in 2010-2012, but that was our experience. Blackboard was what we were familiar with, but some of its tools were … Incentivized Helpful?
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	Delivers good value for the price
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	Happy with the feature set
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	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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	Implementation went as expected
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Features

Sakai

Comparison of Learning Management features of Sakai
Feature	Sakai 7.9 5 Ratings
Course authoring	8.05 Ratings
Course catalog or library	7.04 Ratings
Player/Portal	8.02 Ratings
Learning content	8.05 Ratings
Mobile friendly	7.05 Ratings
Progress tracking & certifications	8.05 Ratings
Assignments	10.05 Ratings
Compliance management	7.04 Ratings
Learning administration	9.05 Ratings
Learning reporting & analytics	6.05 Ratings
Social learning	9.04 Ratings

User Ratings
	Sakai
Likelihood to Recommend	9.0 (14 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	10.0 (3 ratings)
Usability	7.4 (3 ratings)
Support Rating	8.1 (3 ratings)
Implementation Rating	10.0 (1 ratings)