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
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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
Joseph K.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Education
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Feb 2020
Open-source development, huge breadth of features.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Sakai from other similar products?
Sakai is truly open-source. If it doesn't contain a feature you want, you are free to modify it to suit your needs and share that feature with any other users; with community consensus, it may become part of Sakai permanently. It is also not subject to the management changes that plague competitors. The level of possible customization offers an institution near-total control over all aspects of the LMS, which is only possible with open-source.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Being open-source, and customizable top to bottom by an internal team at an institution, makes it uniquely flexible.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Individual features may work very differently under the hood when they've been created by different people.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Host everything yourselves. Sakai offers institutions a chance to determine all aspects of how the LMS works, from features to data governance, and self-hosting is the best way to take advantage of that.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
Leah B.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Education
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Feb 2020
Easy to use, robust features
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Sakai from other similar products?
Sakai is a great product with a vibrant community of talented individuals working behind it. Out of the box, it offers many robust features. The community is adding new features and improvements all the time. Most peers I work with talk about how intuitive it is to use the system.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Seeking support and assistance from the community is fantastic. Most of the time if you've encountered a bug, someone's already hard at work to fix it. You can quickly and easily bring in that change.
What do you dislike most about this product?
Consistency between tools is a challenge for Sakai. Recently, there's been a big push to standardize the format of each tool and to standardize the names of buttons. This will go a long way to improving usability, even though usability is good.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Get involved with the community early on! There are many opportunities for Teaching & Learning calls, QA testing, virtual conferences, etc. Embracing the community will help you through implementation, upgrades, etc. You can also share resources, like training material.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
Shawn P.
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Education
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Feb 2020
Great LMS for our institutional needs.
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Sakai from other similar products?
The Sakai community members that have an invested interest in having a quality, usable product for their institutions.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Working with the Sakai community.
What do you dislike most about this product?
There can be some non-intuitive tools for our instructors to use or understand when using Sakai. With time and our support assistance however, they tend to get a grasp of it. I think this is a common among all LMS's, there will always be a learning curve.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
It's best to compare what Sakai can do for your institution with a community that is committed to always improve and have a dedicated, professional members in the educational environment. The cost is also less whereas commercial vendors tend to be much more. Vendor support is also very important aspect and we have high touch, quick support response from out LMS host vendor.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
