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Product sheet: Sakai 1.0

  • LMS name: Sakai
  • Brief description:  Sakai is an ambitious two years project beginning in 2004 founded by the University of Michigan, Indiana University, MIT, Stanford, the uPortal Consortium, and the Open Knowledge Initiative (OKI) with the support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Sakai partners are joining forces to integrate and synchronize their considerable educational software into a pre-integrated collection of open source tools. The products of this project will include an Enterprise Services-based Portal, a complete Course Management System with sophisticated assessment tools, a Research Support Collaboration System, a Workflow Engine, and a Technology Portability Profile (TPP) as a clear standard for writing future tools that can extend this core set of educational applications.
  • Link to the official project page: http://sakaiproject.org
  • Evaluation sheet: Sakai 1.0 has not been evaluated since this early version does not still offer features for assessment and authoring of tests and thus does not conform our LMS Minimum Definition. Further realeases of Sakai due to 2005 will be fully evaluated.
  • Evaluation date: 2005/02/07

Product sheet
LMS name
 Sakai
Development team
 Sakai is a community source software development project funded ($6.8M grant for 2004-2005) and managed by its community members (the University of Michigan, Indiana University, MIT, Stanford and the uPortal Consortium).
Support team The Sakai Commercial Affiliates (SCA) are commercial firms that offer for-fee support and expertise for the Sakai Project's community source software. Affiliates offer their experience with open source software to provide hosting, consulting, installation, integration, and support services.
More info at http://sakaiproject.org/support.html
Version number of evaluated release Sakai 1.0 Final
Technology used
 Java
Operating Systems supported
 Windows, Max OS/X, Solaris, or LinUX
Database/Software requirements
 Java Run-Time Environment (JRE) or Java Software Development Kit (SDK) version 1.4.2 or later. Apache webserver and Tomcat 5, 5.0.25 or later. MySQL (version 4.1. or later) or Oracle databases.
License type
 The Sakai software is available for free download and use without fee under the Educational Community License Version 1.0.
E-Learning standards supported Open Knowledge Initiative (OKI) Open Service Interface Definitions (OSIDs). Sakai also implements Java Specification Request JSR 168 portlet specification.
Languages
 English
Main features
 Sakai is an enhanced version of the original CourseTools. It is a set of software tools designed to help instructors, researchers and students create websites on the World Wide Web.
Is a course content management included?
 -
Pros
  • The Sakai project aims code mobility in higher education in the core areas of online teaching, research and provision of campus portals.
  • It is based in a Technology Portability Profile (TPP) architecture that provides four essential elements for code mobility:
  1. Service Interface Definitions (based on the OKI open service interface definitions)
  2. Standard Portal (based on recently ratified JSR 168 potlet standard)
  3. Tool Interaction Framework
  4. Localized User Interface
  • Sakai is a re-factored set of educational software tools that blends the best features from the participants' disparate software to create a services-based, enterprise portal for tool delivery.
Cons
  • Early phases of Sakai project are using legacy capabilities coming from the CHEF  environment developed by the University of Michigan.
  • Development and tool deployment will be a mix of legacy and new Sakai capabilities throughout through Sakai 3.0 (late 2005).
Main installations in the world
 The Sakai Educational Partner’s Program (SEPP) is a for fee community that is open to educational institutions. SEPP provides partners early information on the direction of the Sakai Project, strategic briefings to help plan for Sakai at partner institutions, discussions of the project roadmap, etc.  About 60 universities are Sakai SEPP partners.
See http://sakaiproject.org/partners.html
Installations in Spain
 The Universitat de Lleida is the only SEPP partner in Spain.
Notes Sakai Project is funded for two years (2004-2005). The Sakai Educational Partner’s Program is the long-term sustainability organization for the Sakai Project software after the initial two year development grant.
Link to demo version
 http://collab.sakaiproject.org/portal


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