What is Sakai?
Sakai provides a flexible and feature-rich environment for teaching, learning, research and other collaboration. As an open source software suite developed by its adopter community, the Sakai continually evolves in step with the needs of the students, faculty members and organizations it serves. Colleges, universities, governments and other organizations deploy Sakai’s rich toolset to expand the possibilities for technology-enabled learning across many facets of the educational experience.
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81 Likeliness to Recommend
86 Plan to Renew
80 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
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Emotional Footprint Overview
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+82 Net Emotional Footprint
The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.
How much do users love Sakai?
Pros
- Respectful
- Fair
- Trustworthy
- Acts with Integrity
How to read the Emotional Footprint
The Net Emotional Footprint measures high-level user sentiment towards particular product offerings. It aggregates emotional response ratings for various dimensions of the vendor-client relationship and product effectiveness, creating a powerful indicator of overall user feeling toward the vendor and product.
While purchasing decisions shouldn't be based on emotion, it's valuable to know what kind of emotional response the vendor you're considering elicits from their users.
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Feature Ratings
Online Learning
Course Management
Gradebook
Assessments and Quizzes
Classroom Management
Content Management
Instructor Led Training
Content Creation
Analytics and Reporting
Student Collaboration
Vendor Capability Ratings
Business Value Created
Ease of Implementation
Vendor Support
Ease of Data Integration
Breadth of Features
Ease of IT Administration
Quality of Features
Availability and Quality of Training
Ease of Customization
Usability and Intuitiveness
Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement
Sakai Reviews
Arajalla R.
- Role: Operations
- Industry: Education
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Apr 2024
Best platform for Education.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Sakai from other similar products?
Sakai offers robust tools for collaboration, communication, and interaction among students, instructors, and administrators. These include discussion forums, wikis, blogs, messaging, and real-time chat, fostering a dynamic learning environment.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Sakai benefits from a vibrant and active community of users, developers, and contributors who provide support, share resources, and collaborate on the platform's ongoing development and enhancement. This community-driven approach fosters innovation, sustainability, and continuous improvement.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Till now everything is good.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Take the time to explore Sakai's features and capabilities thoroughly. Test out its collaborative tools, content management features, assessment options, and administrative functionalities to ensure they meet your requirements.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
Mohammad A.
- Role: Public Sector
- Industry: Consulting
- Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Submitted Mar 2024
Empowering Educators with Sakai LMS.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Sakai from other similar products?
Sakai architecture is designed to be highly flexible and extensible. Institution can integrate Sakai with other systems and services, such as student information systems, library resources, and integrated learning environment. Sakai is developed and maintained by community of educators, developer's, and institutions working together to improve the platform.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Sakai is open source, it might be favoured by users who appreciate customization options, lower costs, or collaborative development environment. Sakai is easy to use interface or intuitive design could be major points for users.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Sakai can be complex to set up and configure, especially for users who are not familiar with open source software or LMS platforms. Fewer options are available for extending Sakais functionality with additional features or integrations. Sakai might be more expensive than competitors or lack a free plan.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Take a time to explore Sakai features and capabilities to see if they align with your institutions needs. Evaluate your institution capacity for implementing and support Sakai. Consider factors such as infrastructure, technical expertise, training needs and ongoing support requirements and involved with the Sakai community to access resources, documentation, forums, and support.
Pros
- Unique Features
- Fair
- Acts with Integrity
- Transparent
Sarah K.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Education
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Oct 2023
Unlimited customization
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Sakai from other similar products?
Sakai is highly customizable for an organization's needs, wants, and KPIs.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
The Sakai user community is highly interactive and developers and QA testers are very receptive to community feedback.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Some aspects of Sakai's functionality and features are lagging behind those of its competitors (e.g., Canvas, D2L). Change is possible, but often slow due to limited development resources.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Significant end user training will be required for users switching from another LMS to Sakai. Ensure that you have staff who can take on this task.
Pros
- Trustworthy
- Caring
- Respectful
- Client Friendly Policies