Sakai LMS 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview

Sakai LMS

4.1

(33)

Pricing

Pricing available upon request

About Sakai LMS

Sakai LMS is a learning management system for higher education organizations. It provides robust features to support online teaching, learning, and collaboration. Sakai LMS is open-source software and offers add-on options that consist of community-contributed tools and external integrations. The system can be customized based on unique requirements and includes features for grading, assessments, content development, communication, and more.

The Sakai LMS grade book includes a spreadsheet-style interface and enables educators to calculate, store, and distribute grade information to students. Assignments can be created using a wide range of settings, such as peer review and group submissions. Additionally, the system includes a testing engine where questions can be created using various question types and security options. Other Sakai LMS features include lesson creation, rubrics management, course management, and more.

Support is provided via the online Sakai community page and other resources.

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Sakai LMS Pricing and Plans

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Free Version

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Sakai LMS Features

Popular features found in Learning Management System
Assessment Management
Asynchronous Learning
Blended Learning
Built-in Course Authoring
Certification & Licensing
Gamification
Learner Portal
Learning Paths/Tracks
Mobile Learning
SCORM Compliance
Synchronous Learning
Training Management
More features of Sakai LMS
Academic/Education
API
Corporate/Business
Course Management
Course Tracking
eCommerce Management
eLearning Companies
Gradebook
Learning Management
Quizzes
Social Learning
Tests/Assessments

Sakai LMS Integrations

WizIQ LMS

Sakai LMS User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.1

Ratings Breakdown

33%

52%

12%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

4.1

Value for money

4.6

Customer support

4.7

Functionality

3.9

ZAiN R.

Verified reviewer

Education Management

51-200 employees

Used weekly for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed February 2023

Created by Educators for Educators

Building Courses, grading of assessments and easy deliver makes this a breeze to use.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

The self-hosted option is free, and allows you to deploy locally on site for faster access times.Easy integration and an API available allows easy integration.Deeply influenced by educators

Cons:

Sakai Wiki and community is growing, which means more information is available. More video resources required.

Tanvi T.

Verified reviewer

Biotechnology

10000+ employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed January 2022

Good Learning Management Portal with Room for improvement

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

Managing the course membership seems to be a cake walk. Based on my role and restrictions imposed by each course, I could access only the material that I was supposed to. For eg, the professor would schedule an assignment to be available for me only after the specified time. Tracking progress with respect to the assignments graded gives a good gist of the progress made in the course.

Cons:

As a TA, I learnt that the grading is time consuming as compared to Canvas. Sakai opens a grading sheet for each assignment for each student and then allows us to put grades and comments. To grade the next student, we have to go back and then select the next student to be given grades for the assignment. A simple feature like Next Button can also help in saving time while grading.

Tamar B.

Verified reviewer

Hospital & Health Care

201-500 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed April 2022

Sakai as a Platform for Bachelor's Courses

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

As I mentioned previously, this system readily makes course grades accessible from any online outlet (iPad, smart phone/computer). There is also an option for email notifications with an encrypted link. I also liked how once you got the hang of the features, they were very easy to deploy with new courses.

Cons:

Sakai does experience site outages every now and then which makes signing up for new courses a small nightmare. Once it works though, everything is magical!

Chelsea H.

Verified reviewer

Higher Education

5001-10000 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed December 2019

Sakai is Great!

Overall, Sakai is great for students! Its really easy to navigate, stay organized, and collaborate with classmates. I would definitely recommend! I never had any issues.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

Sakai is really easy to use. We were supposed to watch a tutorial once we were enrolled in the semester. There was honestly no need. I figured it out myself easily! All of the tabs are well labeled and it's really easy to find everything you need to. I also love that you can see the roster for every class. This makes it really easy to collaborate with classmates! You can also choose to receive emails when assignments are added, announcements are made, changes are made, etc. This is very beneficial for someone who doesn't want to constantly be logging into Sakai. I also love that you can use Sakai on the computer or mobile phone. I would quite frequently use my phone and everything worked great!

Cons:

There's not much I dislike about Sakai. The only thing is that under "Gradebook" you cannot see your overall grade and there's no way to automatically calculate it. You have to ass up everything yourself to see what grade you have in the class. That was pretty annoying. The teachers always had a total percentage, but for some reason, students didn't have access to that.

Lauren M.

Verified reviewer

Primary/ Secondary Education

Self-Employed

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed June 2019

Sakai Review

I use this for my class information and uploading documents to the class.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

A great place to upload documents, see work, and very user friendly. I love the bar on the side that has all the labels/tabes and you just click one and you are there. It is wonderful and very easy to change from one tab to the next. Uploading work is also very simple and easy to do. It works with all kinds of files, with is fantastic.

Cons:

I do not really have any complaints about this software. It has served me well and I am grateful for it.

Verified

Reviewer

Higher Education

1001-5000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed December 2018

Very modular CMS, but clunky at times

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

The modular aspect allows our IT department to create applications that suite our needs.

Cons:

There seemed to be less functionality out of the box than other CMS packages. Much of the interface is dated, so the UI takes more clicks to do something than you'd expect out of a modern software package.

Davesh M.

Verified reviewer

Computer Software

1001-5000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed April 2019

Sakai Review

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

Easy to submit assignments, view grades, and take assessments. Professors, not always tech-oriented, still find a way to communicate resources effectively with Sakai.

Cons:

UI needs an update, text editors are old and outdated

Tousif A.

Verified reviewer

Education Management

10000+ employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed April 2021

I thing Sakai in a better platform to manage a course

Overall, I love Sakai more than Canvas. I used Blackboard for a very brief period of time. I must say Sakai is the best among these three.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

All of the crucial features of Sakai are easily discoverable. I managed two courses with 100+ students each very easily. Sakai has the feature to upload MS excel files on it which automatically gets filled in the system. Student communication is also quite easy and effective in Sakai.

Cons:

I am not sure how much Sakai costs since I am an end user. It may be pricey. However, our university recently moved to Canvas. Finance could be a reason why.

Verified

Reviewer

Computer Software

1001-5000 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed May 2019

It's okay.

As a student on this platform, I have found that it has some irritating quirks. The login screen frequently requires resetting my cache (I'm not sure if this is the auth my institution is using or the platform). Deep navigation links within forums do not always direct where one expects. And the mobile app is clunky to navigate. Although I understand that some of this is due in part by my institution's choices when constructing courses, it does not seem like the platform allows many options in the first place. The issues do not seem necessary for an un-customizable platform like this.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

- Simple layout - Simple to navigate (on desktop) - Supports templates

Cons:

- This platform has some quirks - Poor app layout - Basic in functionality - Boring design

Philip Smith M.

Verified reviewer

Hospitality

2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review source

Reviewed October 2021

Extensive use of Sakai within a PhD program

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

The software design is simple and minimalist which helps with navigating Sakai. It is also nice to have an auto-save feature for saving drafts.

Cons:

There are time when the software loads pages with errors when it times out, but it is not always clear that you need to log back in to restore the connection to the page.

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