Enables educators and administrators to easily evaluate and use world-class learning environment
HOUSTON, June 9, 2009 — click2try (http://www.click2try.com), a community site that makes it easy to try and use Open Source software, today announced it has added Sakai CLE to its online catalog of Open Source applications.
Sakai is an enterprise-level collaboration and learning environment for educators. Sakai is an Open Source application that lets individual instructors customize the learning experience for their students. Researchers and administrators can also use Sakai to develop sites that specifically serve their collaboration needs.
Sakai includes a variety of tools, including chat, blogs, wikis, announcements, calendar, news feeds, and more. Students and faculty alike can use these Sakai tools to communicate and work with other students and instructors. Sakai also provides advanced tools for developing and delivering lessons, assignments, tests, evaluations, and grades. Reporting and administration tools are built-in to the system.
"We are proud to be able to make Sakai available to even more users, through our Open Source catalog," says Mario Grech, click2try CEO. "Education and Open Source software are a natural fit, and we aim to expand access to more outstanding products like Sakai."
Sakai is popular among leading colleges and universities worldwide, including Oxford University, Yale, Harvard, MIT, Stanford University, Rice University, University of Texas, University of California, Rutgers University, Columbia University, NYU, Johns Hopkins University, and many more. You can find a representative list at the Sakai site.
Sakai boasts a large and active user community and maintains a rich set of documentation at its site. Sakai's modular architecture was designed to allow instructors, instructional designers, administrators, and students to customize and enhance its functionality to suit the needs of specific institutions, departments, and courses. A number of developers have contributed dozens of extensions that help users take advantage of more advanced presentation capabilities, maps, digital media, interoperability with other systems, and more.
With Sakai, click2try continues to add to its catalog of education tools. The click2try catalog also hosts Moodle, another popular tool for educators.
About click2try
click2try is a content-rich, Community-driven Web site for sourcing, testing, evaluating, and hosting existing Open Source software products on pre-configured virtual appliances. With the most comprehensive collection of information on selected Open Source software applications online, click2try is committed to extending the access and the usability of Open Source software to as many people as possible by making it simple, reliable and economical to use. For more information, visit http://www.click2try.com/.
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