2. rSmart Presents: Introduction to Sakai
How Sakai can save your institution money while providing robust LMS capabilities
Thursday, February 12, 2009

3. Agenda
Mike Zackrison
‣ IT landscape on campus VP of Marketing, rSmart
‣ Introduction to Sakai Spencer Harris
Higher Education Consultant, rSmart
‣ Sakai the “community”
‣ Sakai the “software”
‣ rSmart’s services can save money
‣ Sakai demonstration
‣ How to get started with Sakai
‣ Q&A

4. Budget Cuts, 2008
percentage of institutions reporting budget reductions for academic
computing over prior year funding, 2000 - 2008
2000 2008
Source: The Campus Computing Project

5. Budgets Trends by IT Function, 2008
percentage of institutions reporting budget increases or budget
cuts, by IT budget function
Increase Cut
Central IT Academic Adm. ERP Network
IT Emergency
Wireless
Services Computing Computing Software Networking Servers
Security Notification
& Services
Source: The Campus Computing Project

6. Rising Use of IT in Instruction
Learning Management Tools (CMS/LMS)
percentage of courses using CMS/LMS by sector, 2000-2008
2000 2008
Source: The Campus Computing Project

7. Open Source LMS Deployment, 2007-2008
percentages by sector, 2007 vs. 2008
2007 2008
Source: The Campus Computing Project

8. Migrating to Open Source ERP Apps by 2013?
percentage reporting very likely to migrate by sector, 2008
(scale score: 1=not likely; 7=highly likely; data for scores of 6 or 7)
Public Research Private Research Public 4-Year Private 4-Year Community
Universities Universities Colleges Colleges Colleges
Source: The Campus Computing Project

9. Sakai: The Community
• Collaborative educational software initiative
between Michigan, Indiana, MIT and Academic
Institutions
Stanford, funded by Mellon Foundation
• Membership ~ 120 academic institutions
and 15 commercial affiliates around the Standards
Non-profits
world Bodies
• Project activities coordinated by the Sakai
Foundation, a non-profit 501 (C3), charged
with ensuring viability of community and Commercial
Enterprises
software
• 9 product releases since 2004

10. Sakai: The Community
200+ Production and Pilot Instances on 7 continents
Sample Implementations Worldwide with Approximate Size
Institutions Users
Indiana, UNISA 130,000+
Michigan 60,000+
UC Berkeley, Cape Town, Etudes Consortium, New England (AU), 11,000 - 50,000
Valencia, Virginia Tech, Yale, Cerritos College, University of Hawaii,
RINET
Cambridge University, La Salle, Charles Sturt, Fernando Pessoa, 1,000 - 10,000
Lleida, Mount Holyoke, Northwestern, Rice, Roskilde, Saginaw Valley,
UC Merced, Whitman, Arteveldehogeschool, eTech Ohio, Columbia
Earth Institute, OHSU, Limerick, Marist College, University of Baltimore
Corporations: Performance Learning Systems, Holmes Corporation

11. rSmart’s Role in Open Source Communities

12. About rSmart
Supporting Open Source Innovations in Education
We are the leading open source application software
company serving the education market. It’s our passion Open Source Projects
and only focus.
We package, certify, service, and support a suite of
enterprise financial, collaboration and learning
applications that power the Education Enterprise.
We have been instrumental in establishing and
sustaining some of the most visible open source
projects in education.

13. About rSmart’s Business and Offerings
OS Adoption Services
Perceived lack of
• Installation
support is a primary
• Configuration
barrier to open source
(OS) adoption
• Customization
• Integration
• Training
• Consulting
• Hosting
The “Red Hat” for OS Education Applications

14. rSmart / Sakai Value Proposition
‣ Outstanding product
‣ Community innovation
‣ Open source freedom
‣ Commercial support
‣ Superior value

15. Examples of Saving License Fees
http://www.rsmart.com/sakai-cle-
pricing

16. Examples of Resource Savings
rSmart Enables:
• You to use Sakai with fewer technical
resources
• You to focus more of your resources on
constituent service instead of servicing
technology
• You to use Sakai with the same staff you
use to support Bb and other vended
solutions.
SELF SUPPORTED
rSmart SUPPORTED SAKAI

17. Sakai: The Software
‣ Next generation collaboration and learning environment
‣ Teaching, Learning, Scholarly Collaboration, Research, (LMS, CMS, CLE, VLE, VRE)
‣ Built by the world’s leading educational institutions
‣ By and for Education - Enlightened self-interest
‣ Unmatched innovation in OS software development
‣ 4 years, 9 releases,over 60 tools (wiki, blog, podcasting, portfolio, polls, web services, gallery, statistics, grad tools,
evaluations, online live meeting, forums, assessment, reporting)
‣ Enterprise ready (performs w/ 130,000 users, integration, code)
‣ Freely available under an OS license

18. Sakai: The Software
Teaching & Learning ePortfolios
Groups and Projects

19. rSmart Sakai CLE Demo

20. Getting Started with Sakai

21. rSmart Sakai CLE Adoption Package
‣ Includes:
‣ Services and Training
Software Support
‣
‣ Configuration requirements session
Hosting*
(onsite)
‣ Six months standard support
‣ Functional and admin training (onsite)
‣ Up to 500 users
‣ Branding and skinning
‣ Ability to expand as needed
‣ LDAP integration
*Can be deployed onsite if preferred
‣ SIS integration
‣
Cost: $25K Timeline: 4 to 6 weeks
Installation

22. Questions and Contact
Don’t miss:
TRY SAKAI Webinar: mySakai 101
February 17, 2009
on our server
eLearning 2009
Portland, OR
February 21 – 24, 2009
Webinar: rSmart Client Panel
March 5, 2009
mysakai.rsmart.com
Contact us:
on your server
Mike Zackrison
mikez@rsmart.com
Spencer Harris
spencer.harris@rsmart.com
General
www.rsmart.com
info@rsmart.com