Try Sakai Overview

There are a number of easy ways to view or try the Sakai Collaboration and Learning Environment.

• End users can try the free Hosted online trial, getting started right away without having to download, build, install or configure the software. Hosted instances of Sakai are available through our Commercial Affiliates.
• Developers can get source code to see what makes Sakai tick.
• Those who want to experiment on their own hardware and OS can download and install an already compiled binary for their platform of choice.

Click on one of the icons below to get started.

Download & Install	Hosted Online Trial	Get the Source Code
Get an easy-to-install version of Sakai for Windows, Mac or Linux. An excellent choice for a demo or small pilot.	Our commercial affiliates provide a free trial of Sakai. Just create an account and off you go. No download or installation necessary.	Access the Sakai source code from our Subversion repository. Or download a .zip or .tar file of the latest releas

Sakai's "Contrib" tools

Sakai is an extremely flexible platform with a wide variety of tools. The versions you can access above represent the most commonly used tools in the Sakai community. Even so, most Sakai installations include a number of tools that aren't reflected in the demonstration versions above.  These additional tools are called contrib tools.

Many of these tools may become part of the standard release soon. Others are provided by groups that prefer to keep their own development schedules instead of synchronizing with Sakai's release proccess. Either way, we encourage you to explore this world. If you don't see what you want in the demonstations above you likely can find what you need in one of the contrib tools.