Canvas LMS
The open LMS by Instructure, Inc. (by instructure)
Sakai
Sakai is a freely available, feature-rich technology solution for learning, teaching, research and collaboration. Sakai is an open source software suite developed by a diverse and global adopter community. (by sakaiproject)
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| Canvas LMS | Sakai | |
|---|---|---|
| 32 | 8 | |
| 5,296 | 1,027 | |
| 1.4% | 2.5% | |
| 10.0 | 9.8 | |
| 2 days ago | 2 days ago | |
| Ruby | Java | |
| GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 | Educational Community License v2.0 |
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Canvas LMS
Posts with mentions or reviews of Canvas LMS.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-06.
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Best LMS for freelancers, to include a way for clients to track learners?
I did not realize that Canvas is open source. That's an LMS most people like. You have hosting space and server-side savvy, you could set that up: https://github.com/instructure/canvas-lms
- Looking for self hosted exam monitoring and management system
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College level course. The correct answer should be a literal, not a constant, right?
Canvas go brrrrrrrr
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Self host a video course website like udemy, skillshare
Also look at Canvas.
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OOP vs. services for organizing business logic: is there a third way?
github.com/instructure/canvas-lms (745k lines): A popular LMS (learning management system).
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An open-source distributed object storage service
No it's not. From a practical standpoint, I'm not even sure how that could work. You would have to require all browsers to be open source AGPL in order to load a web page served by it. By way of analogy it seems the equivalent of requiring the mouse and keyboard firmware to be licensed the same as the operating system.
A real life example is Instructure, which makes Canvas (which is agpl) but has other proprietary services that interact heavily with it. It's never been a problem
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Open source LMS
Look into Canvas LMS, I would recommend using 8GB RAM and at least 4 vCores. I have used it in the past (`2 years ago) and only had issues with cloning class/course templates.
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[Noob] Trying to create a Learning Management System using Rails 7. Am I biting off more than I can chew?
If you're planning on doing this as business though, bear in mind this is a pretty crowded market. There's already at least one Rails-based LMSes out there (https://github.com/instructure/canvas-lms), and dozens in PHP-land.
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LMS for home use, recommendations
There is also Canvas.
- Learning Management System
Sakai
Posts with mentions or reviews of Sakai.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-11-19.
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:w !sudo tee %
here is an example of a large scale enterprise-level project written in Java: https://github.com/sakaiproject/sakai
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escape from Blackboard
there is sakai, which is open source ... I've used this as a student and it's not too counterintuitive.
- Ask HN: Why is there no good open-source LMS?
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Confirming your Imposter Syndrome b like:
It's also free and open source!
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Why the fuck is "Collab" pronounced co-lab instead of kuh-lab??
Sakai is very much OSS (https://github.com/sakaiproject/sakai), and licensed ECL-2.0
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Canvas LMS and Sakai you can also consider the following projects:
edX - The Open edX LMS & Studio, powering education sites around the world!
Moodle - Moodle - the world's open source learning platform
Chamilo LMS - Chamilo is a learning management system focused on ease of use and accessibility
OpenOLAT - Learning Management System OpenOlat
ILIAS - GitHub repository for official ILIAS release branches and development branches (trunk)
Open eClass - Open eClass
RELATE - RELATE is an Environment for Learning And TEaching
Exercism - website - The codebase for Exercism's website.