
Easy-to-use template for instructors to enter their materials. You can easily make short quizzes with multiple choices or fill in the blanks. For numerical answers, it also allows a range of values to be accepted (to account for round-off errors etc.). Assignments can also be randomized in terms of the order of the questions (to inhibit cheating in tests), and also the options for multiple choice/match the columns can be randomized. The way the software is set up, you don't need to know much about html scripting or syntax to have a full website-like functionality. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.
Very slow especially for large class sizes -- the gradebooks take extremely long to load and interact with. The biggest issue with Sakai is that you cannot easily upload a gradebook from Excel to Sakai. The manual task of inputting grades is not fun at all. Also, the UI is not very intuitive -- you usually have to dig around to find a certain thing. Sakai has a tendency to bug out randomly -- the biggest losers are students while answering quizzes or tests. Also, the inefficient UI usually means that you have to go through too many clicks to accomplish simple tasks. The "back" button on Sakai is another huge bug as the software freaks out and behaves unexpectedly every time you hit back. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.