Sakai is an open source collaboration and learning environment. Sakai is part of the Apereo Foundation suite of open source tools for education.

Sakai is used in many ways, from traditional courses with online components (such as resource management and forum-based discussion) to more advanced online approaches (such as flipped classrooms and fully-online teaching). A special distinction of Sakai over other LMSes is its built-in support for dedicated project work sites, which allows organizations and project teams to coordinate project administration, share resources, schedule activities, develop collaborative work products and track progress towards completion. These project collaboration spaces are widely used by student groups, faculty committees, thesis committees, strategic planning teams, re-accreditation teams and others tasked with important projects beyond the classroom.

New in Sakai 25

Sakai 25 features a large number of new features and enhancements, including:

• Accessibility improvements

• Grading support in Conversations tool

• Bulk publish/unpublish for Draft items in Announcements, Assignments, and Tests & Quizzes

• Improved Group support in Assignments (including LTI support for group submissions)

• SCORM Player tool now part of Core Sakai

• Course Cards in Home Dashboard

• More granular Site Import options and Template sites available in list of sites for import

• Date Manager Import/Export for batch due date updates

• LTI setup UI improvements for admin external tool installation and deployment

• Integration with Microsoft 365 (including new Microsoft Admin Tool for group and user synchronization, new Meetings tool with Teams integration, and integrations for Collaborative Documents, OneDrive, and Stream)

• Rubrics improvements including admin control over public rubrics and group submission rubric grading support

• Many enhancements to Tests & Quizzes including the Safe Exam Browser open source lockdown browser integration, question pool export, improved event log UI, markup text editor now accepts HTML formatting, random draw from multiple pools, time limit per question or page, improved navigation when grading, question pool keyword search and sorting by folders or usage statistics

• Announcements tool enhancements for highlighting announcements and displaying announcements to selected roles

• Support for Tags in Assignments and Messages

• Messages tool read receipts for private messages and option to convert message to forum post

• Gradebook for Groups (i.e. option to set up multiple gradebooks in a site)

• Roster tool “Name that Face” game

• Streamlined Profile tool

• OOTB CKEditor UI now displays the most popular tools by default

• Lessons View Item Based on Grade options

• High fidelity site content export/import for IMSCC Sakai course exports

• Wiki tool group support

• New (Romanian, Serbian, Bulgarian) and updated (Spanish, Basque) language translations

• User role in site displayed in navigation

• New Admin Bulk Membership Tool