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“Sakai provides us with the flexibility we need to offer a learning management system to support the teaching methodology at Oxford University. We can include best of breed products from other sources too, to offer a cutting edge platform for online learning.”

About 200 fixes or updates(compared with 10.0)
Elastic Search upgrade from 0.9.0 to 1.1.2 and removal of legacy Search
IMS Common Cartridge 1.3 support within Lessons. This makes IMS CC in Sakai capable of exchanging data with Moodle, Blackboard, and Canvas.
Security - over a dozen security fixes.
Accessibility - close to a dozen Accessibility fixes.
Translations and i18n improvements - A number of updates to French and Chinese translations and about 1 1/2 dozen internationalization fixes including full i18n support in the Peer review feature of Lessons.
Assignments tool - Improved handling of deleted groups in the Assignments tool. Basic validation to Single Uploaded File option to prevent students submitting an empty assignment.
Forums tool - Performance improvement in Forums. Significant fixes to Forum Rank feature
Gradebook row highlighting, for easier grading.
Online Help - Ability to remove an entire help category (like OSP).

Scalability and performance Improvements, including distributed cacheing, providing support for JCache/JSR-107
Updated Security Improvements
Two new tools which help with scheduling of events (such as office hours) and delegated access
IMS LTI 2.0 - first learning system with support for the latest LTI spec. Makes integration with external tools easy.
Major improvements to Assignments, Test and Quizzes, Gradebook, Syllabus, Lessons (aka LessonBuilder)
Mobile device support improved through the addition and upgrade of robust APIs.

Current Release
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!

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The Sakai project provides a flexible and feature-rich environment for teaching, learning, research and other collaboration. As an open source software suite developed by its adopter community, the Sakai project continually evolves in step with the needs of the students, faculty members and organizations it serves.

Colleges, universities, governments and other organizations deploy Sakai’s rich toolset to expand the possibilities for technology-enabled learning across many facets of the educational experience.

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How Open Works
Sakai is open source Learning Management System software. Free to download. Free to modify.
Free to use. Free to share.

Sakai is developed and maintained by people who either work in, or serve the Higher Education sector. The community around Sakai works to make the environment more effective and better suited to the needs of their institutions. Community is central to the sustainability of Sakai.

The Sakai code is freely available for anyone to download. It carries a license that grants users the right to deploy, modify and distribute the software at no cost and for any purpose.

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