Sakai-Québec

Even though Sakai-Quebec has ceased operations, CRIM continues to offer Sakai and its services to all organizations wishing to experiment with this platform.

In 2009-2010, CRIM carried out various Sakai and OSP (Sakai’s ePortfolio) experimentation and implementation projects with Victoriaville CEGEP, the University of Montreal’s Faculty of Medicine, Laval School Board and the University of Montreal. CRIM also offers Sakai evaluation spaces, as well as training and demonstrations.

Sakai-Quebec was a non-profit organization working to promote the Sakai collaboration and digital learning environment and to foster the development of open code source-based freeware meeting educational standards in the areas of online training and skills development.

Sakai-Quebec’s initiatives included:

• Translating the Sakai platform into French.
• Creating a SCORM player.
• Improving existing tools and services (rWiki, Jforum, etc.).
• Projects such as: 
  • Francommunautés
  • Polles
  • GTES
  • VKI (distance professional training)
  • Traumatology task force (community practice support)
  • Adapting HEC Montreal’s “Courses” section to Sakai with OpenSyllabus
  • Integrating GWT into Sakai

To view and test the demonstration platform, go to http://demo.sakaiquebec.org. You can create an account to experiment with the various tools and access the public content.

Sakai Vanille

Sakai Vanille is a Sakai 2.4 distribution platform developed by Sakai-Québec. Sakai Vanille offers tools and services specially designed to meet the needs of francophone organizations and to ensure a compact, streamlined and more easily maintainable product. CRIM has all of the tools needed to test the platform and master it rapidly.

• Download a precompiled and preconfigured version of Sakai Vanille at the following address: http://ci.sakaiquebec.org/sites/nightly/
  (user name: guest; no password).
• Obtain the source code at http://svn.sakaiquebec.org/sakai-quebec/sakaivanille/trunk/ 
  (user name: vanilleguest; password: vanilleguest).
• Unzip the file on your workstation and follow the instructions in the lisezmoi.txt file. You can have access to your very own Sakai server in just a few minutes!

If you would like to view the Vanille components or even add some of your own, download the source code. Complete installation instructions are available at http://demo.sakaiquebec.org.