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
- Role: Information Technology
- Industry: Education
- Involvement: IT Leader or Manager
Submitted Apr 2023
Established LMS with a Future
Likeliness to Recommend
Pros
- Client Friendly Policies
- Client's Interest First
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Role: Student Academic
- Industry: Not for Profit
- Involvement: Initial Implementation
Submitted Apr 2023
Easy, efficient, and understandable.
Likeliness to Recommend
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
Dave E.
- Role: Student Academic
- Industry: Education
- Involvement: IT Development, Integration, and Administration
Submitted Apr 2023
Robust and flexible feature set
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates Sakai from other similar products?
Sakai's vendor support is top-notch. If an issue presents itself, a global set of developers is ready to address, refine or respond to a suggestion. The feature set is broad, flexible and powerful. SMEs and course developers find the flexible design interface refreshing without sacrificing accessibility requirements. Students find the interface just as easy to navigate as Canvas, Moodle or Blackboard and a nice change from what they experienced in high school. We have used Sakai for over 5. years now having switched from another bigbox vendor, and we're able to pass on the savings to our students w/o sacrificing the user experience.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Sakai is reliable. Year to year, even through upgrades, Sakai is as dependable as Linux is as a server platform and for nearly as long. Sakai is feature rich. Few platforms outpace Sakai for cost per feature, breadth of support, ease of management, and implementation. Our vendor welcomes input on product improvement, and we trust and see platform developers as deeply invested and partners in our work. Sakai is also innovating. The platform has continued to grow and keep pace with user insight, requests and insight from teaching and learning groups and students. We have access to our data and the data is ours.
What do you dislike most about this product?
While Sakai is solid, every platform has a blind spot or area of weakness. For Sakai, this would be in the area of actionable analytics. Sakai includes course statistics and can be connected to an LRS, and it even includes per-student stats. However, it is difficult w/o IT help to port student data into an overall program-level set of reports or longitudinal summaries like those that could come out of Microsoft BI.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
The tendency is to go with what everyone else is doing. "Did you hear about so and so? They just moved to X." Do your research and talk to end-users (the students, teachers, and support staff) of the platforms being considered. The biggest platform may not be as responsive as one with near parity; it may just be the platform that soaks your budget the most.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Client's Interest First
- Includes Product Enhancements
