Sakai
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Sakai, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From Sakai's own pricing page, checked 12 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Sakai cloud-hosted sample | Free | Sample account and course · experience instructor and student views · online help |
| Sakai (self-hosted) | Free | Free download · configure and host it yourself |
The facts
Each one read from Sakai's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Accessibility
- The Sakai community states a goal of meeting WCAG 2.2 Level A and AA success criteria and says it regularly evaluates accessibility.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Administration
- Sakai provides course and system administration and configurable roles and permissions.checked 12 Oct 2026
- API access
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
- Assessments
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
- Audience
- The project describes Sakai as created by educators for educators and supports teaching and learning in person or online.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Authentication and data
- The project lists CAS, Kerberos, LDAP, Shibboleth, and WebAuth among supported external authentication services; production deployments typically use a database and file storage.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Communication
- Sakai includes synchronous and asynchronous tools for messaging, discussions, social connections, and collaborative work.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Community tools
- Community members develop Sakai-specific tools that can be used outside the packaged release, and users can build their own.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Course tools
- Instructors can organize text, resources, quizzes, tests, assignments, links, video, and other media into lessons or modules, with conditional release for materials.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Deployment
- Sakai is a Java-based web application typically deployed with Apache Tomcat, and can scale through multiple Tomcat instances in a cluster.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Grading
- Sakai supports student submissions, feedback, high-stakes tests, formative assessments, online assignments, rubric-based scoring, and grade entry.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Help resources
- The maker points users to Sakai user guides and a community wiki for feature help, participation, deployment information, and best practices.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Hosting and services
- The Sakai site says commercial affiliates develop, host, and support Sakai, and identifies Longsight, Learning Experiences, and EDF as its main affiliates.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- Sakai implements the IMS LTI specification and provides an API for native integrations with third-party applications.checked 12 Oct 2026
- License
- The Sakai 25 series is licensed under the Educational Community License version 2.0.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Product
- Sakai is an open-source learning management, communications, and collaboration platform.checked 12 Oct 2026
- Support
- The project says official community support for Sakai 22 ceased with the Sakai 25 series and encourages older-version users to upgrade for current security patches.checked 12 Oct 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
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