Mahara
Github clone of the Mahara ePortfolio git repository up to April 2023. The latest code is available via a subscription. See https://mahara.org/subscription for more information. (by MaharaProject)
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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| Mahara | Sakai | |
|---|---|---|
| 3 | 8 | |
| 113 | 1,023 | |
| - | 2.2% | |
| 8.1 | 9.8 | |
| 5 months ago | 6 days ago | |
| PHP | Java | |
| GNU General Public License v3.0 only | Educational Community License v2.0 |
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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.
Mahara
Posts with mentions or reviews of Mahara.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-06-28.
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My introduction
My past experience had me working for a major UK university and specialist school Internet Service Provider (ages 4-18) which included provision of services like Moodle LMS, and Mahara eLearning Portfolio, where I was also a contributor.
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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Ask HN: Why is there no good open-source LMS?
I once TA-ed for the guy who runs https://www.sakailms.org/, I know his vision is to make a good opensource LMS, so you might be able to tell him what you are finding lacking in other projects.
Dr Chuck is one of the top professors on Coursera, and I understand he's mostly using the money he makes on coursera to fund Sakai as a passion project.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing Mahara and Sakai you can also consider the following projects:
Moodle - Moodle - the world's open source learning platform
edX - The Open edX LMS & Studio, powering education sites around the world!
Canvas LMS - The open LMS by Instructure, Inc.
OpenOLAT - Learning Management System OpenOlat
Chamilo LMS - Chamilo is a learning management system focused on ease of use and accessibility
ILIAS - GitHub repository for official ILIAS release branches and development branches (trunk)
lxHive
Exercism - website - The codebase for Exercism's website.