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What is Sakai?

The Sakai Environment 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, Sakai continually evolves in step with the needs of the students, faculty members and organizations it serves.

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The Sakai Environment 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, Sakai continually evolves in step with the needs of the students, faculty members and organizations it serves.


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4.5 out of 5
"Great LMS"
Easy to use and a straightforward learning management system
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4.5 out of 5
"Great platform with a couple bugs."
I love the tools access on the left-hand side of the screen that allows professors to create multiple folders and upload different resources.
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1.5 out of 5
"Sakai: Successfully does everything, but isn't good at anything"
Sakai has a lot of features and works fine for many applications.
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Verified User in Marketing and Advertising
UM
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What do you like best about Sakai?

It's easy to share information and documents. Individual pages are pretty customizable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sakai?

The layout is a little busy. It's sometimes hard to find things. I also had problems when trying to navigate back to previous pages. The software would not let the user visit past pages using the back button. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Sakai:

Check everything out on the market in this category. Sakai might be right for your, but it depends on specific needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Sakai solving and how is that benefiting you?

We used Sakai as a collaboration tool. It was very useful for sending out announcements and sharing documents. It was easy to have one place to direct people for updates, documents and chat rooms (for answering questions). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Sakai?

I am able to have various tabs to keep my classes organized and upload documents into different folders. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sakai?

The interface is basic and simple, I wish it was more modern/colorful to the eye. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Sakai:

I do not use this for work, so I am nor sure how it well it works for a professional setting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Sakai solving and how is that benefiting you?

No business issues. My company does not use this, I used it at college. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Higher Education
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What do you like best about Sakai?

It is convenient to see all recent announcements as soon as I log in. Also, it is easy to navigate from one course to another--once I am in one course, I can easily look at a variety of materials, announcements, grades, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sakai?

Looking for past sites I was a part of is difficult. Also, the display of grading is sometimes unclear. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Sakai:

Compare to other services out there -- my organization recently switched to another site that has similar problems, but seems cleaner and has better support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Sakai solving and how is that benefiting you?

I am a student and Coursework helps me stay organized. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Sakai?

I used CTools (powered by Sakai) at the University of Michigan as both a student and an instructor. The program served as an easy way to communicate important announcements between students and instructors, share documents, track grades, and facilitate collaboration between students. The ability to record and manage student grades using the tool was probably the most valuable feature for me as an instructor.

Overall navigation within the tool was pretty straightforward, which isn't always the case with similar tools. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sakai?

The tool worked well overall-- students had occasional glitches with forum and chat pages. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Sakai solving and how is that benefiting you?

Facilitating communication between instructors and students. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Sakai?

It is fairly easy to navigate and the links to the pages you need are very accessible. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sakai?

The site seems to have a lot of problems with crashing and there were several times I went to use it and it was unavailable due to either maintenance or problems within the site. It also seems as though teachers had some troubles posting things properly, but I'm not sure on who's end that fault is. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Sakai solving and how is that benefiting you?

It is an easy way to get all the classes you need to communicate in on one site with minimal effort to switch between them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Sakai?

I utilize the Discussion boards and homework submission boxes the most because of its simple operation and reliability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sakai?

I do not like how big the tabs are at the top for switching from course pages to course pages. I wish I could see one or two more tabs for my classes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Sakai solving and how is that benefiting you?

Coursework is being solved efficiently and quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Sakai?

Sakai (CTools at the University of Michigan) was a great organizational tool for class readings, grades, assignments, etc. Easy to navigate, quick to learn. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sakai?

Some of the features were extremely irrelevant. I didn't understand the difference between Forums and Chat Rooms. Seems like the features exist just to exist - not for any actual purpose. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Sakai solving and how is that benefiting you?

Really helpful for sharing educational materials. Utilizing Sakai (CTools) allowed the teachers at my school to post readings instead of us buying textbooks or signing up for various online publications. Environmentally, and financially, friendly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Medical Practice
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What do you like best about Sakai?

There is a dropbox function to allow students to post their work easily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sakai?

Very VERY disorganized software. There is no structure or logical placement of links on the page. Requires lots of organization. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Sakai solving and how is that benefiting you?

The software is an aid to keep you organized, but is more disorganized than any educational software I have used. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Education Management
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What do you like best about Sakai?

I think sakai is nice in that it is able to organize everything very well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sakai?

I think it runs slowly very often and constantly needs rebooting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Sakai solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are a university so our main goal is student education, and providing everything easily and quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Sakai?

The amount of features available. Makes it possible to complete many assignments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sakai?

Slow load speed of exams. Makes student unsure f there is a technical error or not. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Sakai solving and how is that benefiting you?

Easy accessibility to course materials online. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.