Sakai LMS

About Sakai LMS
Sakai LMS is open-source software and provides a robust set of online learning features for higher education. It is designed to help educators provide a collaborative teaching environment to students. Because of its open-source flexibility and wide range of add-on components, Sakai LMS can be customized as needed using community-contributed tools and external integrations.
Sakai LMS includes a spreadsheet-style grade book, rubric manager, test/quiz creation, a centralized calendar, real-time chat, forums, wikis, and more. A social messaging tool referred to as “Commons” can also be used to interact with site participants. Additionally, Sakai LMS includes content development tools to create lessons using text, links, video, and other types of media. Other features include a syllabus page, search tool, dynamic news feed, plus more.
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- Industry: Education Management
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Created by Educators for Educators
Reviewed on 2023/02/19
Building Courses, grading of assessments and easy deliver makes this a breeze to use.
Building Courses, grading of assessments and easy deliver makes this a breeze to use.
Pros
The self-hosted option is free, and allows you to deploy locally on site for faster access times.Easy integration and an API available allows easy integration.Deeply influenced by educators
Cons
Sakai Wiki and community is growing, which means more information is available. More video resources required.
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Easy LMS- Industry: Biotechnology
- Company size: 10,000+ Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Good Learning Management Portal with Room for improvement
Reviewed on 2022/01/27
Pros
Managing the course membership seems to be a cake walk. Based on my role and restrictions imposed by each course, I could access only the material that I was supposed to. For eg, the professor would schedule an assignment to be available for me only after the specified time. Tracking progress with respect to the assignments graded gives a good gist of the progress made in the course.
Cons
As a TA, I learnt that the grading is time consuming as compared to Canvas. Sakai opens a grading sheet for each assignment for each student and then allows us to put grades and comments. To grade the next student, we have to go back and then select the next student to be given grades for the assignment. A simple feature like Next Button can also help in saving time while grading.
- Industry: Hospital & Health Care
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10
Sakai as a Platform for Bachelor's Courses
Reviewed on 2022/04/12
Pros
As I mentioned previously, this system readily makes course grades accessible from any online outlet (iPad, smart phone/computer). There is also an option for email notifications with an encrypted link. I also liked how once you got the hang of the features, they were very easy to deploy with new courses.
Cons
Sakai does experience site outages every now and then which makes signing up for new courses a small nightmare. Once it works though, everything is magical!

- Industry: Higher Education
- Company size: 5,001–10,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Sakai is Great!
Reviewed on 2019/12/14
Overall, Sakai is great for students! Its really easy to navigate, stay organized, and collaborate...
Overall, Sakai is great for students! Its really easy to navigate, stay organized, and collaborate with classmates. I would definitely recommend! I never had any issues.
Pros
Sakai is really easy to use. We were supposed to watch a tutorial once we were enrolled in the semester. There was honestly no need. I figured it out myself easily! All of the tabs are well labeled and it's really easy to find everything you need to. I also love that you can see the roster for every class. This makes it really easy to collaborate with classmates! You can also choose to receive emails when assignments are added, announcements are made, changes are made, etc. This is very beneficial for someone who doesn't want to constantly be logging into Sakai. I also love that you can use Sakai on the computer or mobile phone. I would quite frequently use my phone and everything worked great!
Cons
There's not much I dislike about Sakai. The only thing is that under "Gradebook" you cannot see your overall grade and there's no way to automatically calculate it. You have to ass up everything yourself to see what grade you have in the class. That was pretty annoying. The teachers always had a total percentage, but for some reason, students didn't have access to that.

- Industry: Primary/Secondary Education
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Sakai Review
Reviewed on 2019/06/11
I use this for my class information and uploading documents to the class.
I use this for my class information and uploading documents to the class.
Pros
A great place to upload documents, see work, and very user friendly. I love the bar on the side that has all the labels/tabes and you just click one and you are there. It is wonderful and very easy to change from one tab to the next. Uploading work is also very simple and easy to do. It works with all kinds of files, with is fantastic.
Cons
I do not really have any complaints about this software. It has served me well and I am grateful for it.
Sakai LMS FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for Sakai LMS.Q. What type of pricing plans does Sakai LMS offer?
Sakai LMS offers the following pricing plans:
- Pricing model: Free Version
- Free Trial: Not Available
Sakai LMS is open-source software. There are no license fees.
Q. Who are the typical users of Sakai LMS?
Sakai LMS has the following typical customers:
Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500
Q. What languages does Sakai LMS support?
Sakai LMS supports the following languages:
English
Q. Does Sakai LMS support mobile devices?
Sakai LMS supports the following devices:
iPhone (Mobile), iPad (Mobile)
Q. What other apps does Sakai LMS integrate with?
Sakai LMS integrates with the following applications:
WizIQ LMS
Q. What level of support does Sakai LMS offer?
Sakai LMS offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base
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