Monthly Archives: December 2021

Sakai Plus

My project “Sakai Plus” is adding an LTI Advantage “provider” to Sakai 23.   Sakai already has an LTI 1.1 provider (i.e. you can launch a Sakai tool from another LMS like Canvas, Moodle, Blackboard, etc.).  You can follow progress at:

https://github.com/sakaiproject/sakai/pull/10121

The Sakai Plus effort will build equivalent and expanded support for integrating Sakai into other LMS systems using LTI 1.3 / LTI Advantage.

Unlike most of Sakai (and Tsugi) – the Sakai Plus LTI 1.3 provider will be done completely separately from the LTI 1.1 support.  In lots of other places, a lot of effort has been made to make code support LTI 1.1 and LTI 1.3 simultaneously in the same code base with careful use of if-then-else.  But because the scope of LTI Advantage tool provider is quite a bit broader that the LTI 1.1 provider, it will be kept separate so it can grow without maintaining legacy capabilities.

Sakai 21.2 Released

This message is from Wilma Hodges, the Sakai Community Coordinator announcing the Sakai 21.2 release.


Congratulations to our amazing worldwide community!

I’m pleased to announce that Sakai 21.2 is now available for downloading[1]!

Sakai 21.2 has 200 improvements [2] including

  • 38 fixes in Assignments

  • 14 fixes in Basic LTI

  • 13 fixes in Forums

  • 18 fixes in Gradebook

  • 14 fixes in Lessons

  • 15 fixes in Site Info

  • 30 fixes in Tests & Quizzes

Other areas improved include:

  • Accessibility

  • Announcements

  • Bullhorns

  • Calendar

  • CKEditor

  • Commons

  • Content Review

  • Delegated Access

  • Dropbox

  • Entity Broker

  • Internationalization

  • Message Bundle Manager

  • Messages

  • News

  • Portal

  • Profile

  • Resources

  • Roster

  • Rubrics

  • Section Info

  • Sign Up

  • Statistics

  • Syllabus

  • Wiki

There was 1 security issue fixed in 21.2 (details will be sent to the Sakai Security Announcements list).

Please also note the upgrade information page [3] for important notes related to performing the upgrade.

[1] Download information- http://source.sakaiproject.org/release/21.2/

[2] 20.1 Fixes by Tool – https://sakaiproject.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/DOC/pages/17188913172/21.2+Features+by+Tool

[3] Upgrade information – https://sakaiproject.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/DOC/pages/17310646931/Sakai+21+Upgrade+Information