Choosing Sakai

Empower Innovation

Built by the world’s leading educational institutions, Sakai enables powerful teaching, learning and research collaboration within a feature-rich, enterprise platform. Read more about Sakai on the Product Features page.

Control Your Destiny

Sakai is distributed as free and open source software under the Educational Community License, ensuring its IP rights can never be sold and you will never be locked into a vendor for development, hosting or support. Sakai’s collective resources ensure technology innovations will continue at a remarkable rate.

Save Money

Sakai increases your control over your investment levels, enabling you to leverage the functionality and support models that best meet the needs of your institution. There are never any fees or royalties associated with using Sakai so you can invest those dollars on other priorities. The funds you spend on Sakai support your development team, enhancing Sakai for the benefit of your institution and all others in the Sakai community at large.

Be in Good Company

Innovation in teaching, learning and research is core to the mission of higher education. It is what we do. The Sakai community creates the collaborative environment that inspires enhanced teaching, learning and research. If you customize or want to develop innovations, our open development process allows those changes to be built into the core Sakai product itself.