Sakai 2.6.3 instant installation to your Cloud with Jumpbox and Cloudcom ISP

Being free, highly developed educational software platform Sakai offers all needed tools to create virtual environment for effective learning and joint work. This JumpBox introduces the advanced version of Sakai, called rSmart that contains additional modules and perfected user interface. You can use Sakai both for online sharing of learning experience and as supplementing tool for traditional personal study. The benefits of this system are following:

• Personal Workspace: For each user a personal dashboard is provided assembling information from all taken courses that gives both teachers and students comprehensive presentation of all the information available from different sources associated with corresponding classes.
• Extensive built-in modules: Sakai allows to combine many of modules activating them according to the requirements of every particular course. Numerous modules are included in the system such as chats, online meetings, grade book functionality, wiki, attendance estimating, discussion forums and dropbox features.
• Portfolio Sites: This tool allows both teachers and students to show their achievements and share their research work.
• Intuitive navigation: In this version advanced navigation is provided, intuitive and context-dependent.
• Highly customizable: Sakai has reasonable default settings, however, in case of need, a system administrator can take advantage of more than 400 options available through the web-based configuration manager.

Being almost a gigabyte in size this JumpBox is currently the largest for downloading, but you can benefit from launching an instance on Amazon EC2 that allows you to start working in a couple of minutes.