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About Sakai
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Sakai CLE 10 release dates: 10.0 - 27 June 2014 10.1 - 22 August 2014 10.2 - 14 October 2014 10.3 - 19 December 2014 10.4 - 17 February 2015 10.5 - 07 July 2015 10.6 - 28 December 2015 10.7 - 22 April 2016 Additional Information: |
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Sakai is a Java-based, service-oriented web application that provides a variety of capabilities supporting teaching and learning, portfolios, research, and ad-hoc project collaboration. Sakai is typically deployed using Apache Tomcat as its servlet container and scalability is achieved by running multiple instances of Tomcat in a clustered environment, each deploying a copy of Sakai. It integrates with a variety of external authentication services including CAS, Kerberos, LDAP, Shibboleth and WebAuth. A single database, usually MySQL or Oracle, provides a transactional store of information while file storage is typically delegated to NAS or SAN solutions. In most production settings, Sakai relies on a back-end student information system (SIS) to provide it with student and course information, which Sakai consults via provider APIs. |
Sakai 10 Overview
Sakai 10 builds on the solid work of the Sakai 2.9.3 release. We have two new tool contributions, better support for audio and video using HTML 5, infrastructure improvements, about 50 security fixes, performance improvements, a number of new features, and close to 2,000 fixes! Highlights include, but are not limited to:
- Signup tool, previously a Contrib tool, is now part of Sakai core
- Delegated Access tool, previously a Contrib tool, is now part of Sakai core
- Online context sensitive help has been upgraded with improved content, step-by-step instructions, and easier to modify to your institution's needs
- IMS LTI - first LMS with support for LTI 2.0
IMS Common Cartridge (CC) improved support. Support for reading CC files is able to read CC versions 1.0, 1.1, 1.2 and it can export data in CC version 1.1 or 1.2, user selectable
- Peer graded Assignments
- Group Assignments
- Test and Quizzes has new question types: Calculated question and Extended Matching Items, improved precision on numeric answers, a new accordion-style interface for quiz setup.
- Lessons toolbar has been redesigned and simplified, better support for embedded Audio and video, new Table of Contents feature, support for inline use of polls, and better overall look and feel.
- Resources has support for drag and drop adding of files from desktop for all browsers, and support for folder drag and drop in Chrome.
- Syllabus Tool updated with a new interface, bulk update of syllabus items, accordion view, and better handling of link migration
- Gradebook added support for extra credit.
Distributed Cacheing provides support for JCache/JSR-107 which includes improvement to the default cache sizes and better control by configuration. Session replication to failover from one server to another without losing session data. Overall provides better performance for large Sakai installation (though please note that these features are not turned on by default OOTB).
- Project Keitai added additional mobile capability to Sakai.
- Explicit support for Google Analytics.
- Security Updates. The Sakai community fixed about 50 security issues including various XSS issues and CSRF issues. AntiSamy is on by default in Sakai 2.9.3 and Sakai 10. AntiSamy ensures that user supplied HTML/CSS is in compliance within an application's rules.
- Student Success Portal - new integration available.
- Java - added support for JDK 7.x. JDK 8.x support is in process of being added.
- Sakai technical organization simplified. Reincorporated many of the "Indies" to make management of Sakai releases and reporting of issues easier.
Sakai 10 Acknowledgements
Sakai 10 Detailed List of Features
Sakai 10 Read Me
ReadMe - special notes on New Features
Sakai 10.2 changes
Sakai 10 and later System Requirements
Browser compatibility
Include Page Sakai 10 Browser Support Sakai 10 Browser Support
Downloading
Sakai 10 Install Guides
Upgrading
Sakai 2.9 and Sakai 10 Skin Guide
Configuring
Sakai 10 new properties and permissions
Database support
Known issues
Security policy
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Older Releases
With the advent of the Sakai 10 series, official Community support for Sakai 2.8 ceases. Organizations running Sakai 2.8 (and earlier versions) are strongly encouraged to upgrade to the latest versions of Sakai 10 or Sakai 2.9 in order to take advantage of continued maintenance support.
License
The Sakai 10 series is licensed under the Educational Community License version 2.0.