Sakai (software)

This article is about the software project. For other uses, see Sakai.
Initial releaseMarch 2005 (2005-03)
Stable release
22.0 / April 13, 2022 (2022-04-13) [1]
Repositorygithub.com/sakaiproject/sakai
Written inJava
Operating systemCross-platform
Available in19 languages (ar, ca, de, en, es, eu, fr, it, ja, ko, mn, nl, pl, pt, ru, sv, tr, vi, zh),[2][3]
TypeCourse Management System
LicenseEducational Community License
Websitewww.sakailms.org

Sakai is a free, community-driven, open source educational software platform designed to support teaching, research and collaboration. Systems of this type are also known as learning management systems (LMS), course management systems (CMS), or virtual learning environments (VLE). Sakai is developed by a community of academic institutions, commercial organizations and individuals. It is distributed under the Educational Community License, a type of open source license.

Sakai is used by hundreds of institutions, mainly in the US, but also in Canada, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia.[4][5] Sakai was designed to be scalable, reliable, interoperable and extensible. Its largest installations handle over 100,000 users.[4] [6]

  1. ^ "Sakai 22.0 Release".
  2. ^ "Sakai languages". Archived from the original on 2014-06-25. Retrieved 2014-06-24.
  3. ^ Sakai Internationalization Dashboard Archived 2014-08-08 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ a b "Organizations Using Sakai". Archived from the original on 2014-01-08.
  5. ^ "Sakai 10 Acknowledgements".
  6. ^ Alan Berg; Ian Dolphin (2011). Sakai CLE Course Management, The Official Guide (2 ed.). PACKT Publishing. p. 7.