The Sakai Project began in 2004 when Stanford, Michigan, Indiana, MIT and Berkeley began building a common Courseware Management System rather than continuing their homegrown systems or licensing software from a commercial vendor. As of July 2007, Sakai is in production at over 150 institutions and being piloted by over 100 more.

Mainstream offers specialized Sakai hosting for Educational institutions. We provide complete Sakai implementations for School Districts as well as a collaboration site for school districts which allows teachers and administrators to share ideas, course work and other materials.

We also provide Sakai Hosting, Support, Customizations and Consulting for organizations. With our almost twenty years of Internet development and hosting, we are uniquely qualified to help build and maintain optimal sites including email and security services.

Our core Sakai features include:

• Announcements - used to inform site participants about current items of interest
• Drop Box - allows instructors and students to share documents within a private folder for each student
• Email Archive - all messages sent to a site's email address are stored in the Email Archive
• Resources - share many kinds of material securely with members of your site, or make them available to the public
• Chat Room - for real-time, unstructured conversations among site participants who are signed on to the site at the same time
• Forums - communication tool that instructors or site leaders can use to create an unlimited number of discussion forums
• Threaded Discussion
• Message Center - a communication tool that allows site participants to communicate using internal course mail
• Message Of The Day
• News/RSS - uses RSS to bring dynamic news to your worksite
• Poll tool - allows users to set up an online vote
• Preferences
• Presentation - allows you to present a set of slides to many viewers
• Profile / Roster - view the names, photos, and profiles of site participants
• Repository Search - search content created by tools within a worksite or course
• Schedule - allows instructors or site organizers to post items in a calendar format

Other Sakai modules we provide:

Teaching Tools

• Assignments
• Grade book
• Module Editor
• QTI Authoring
• QTI Assessment
• Section Management
• Syllabus

Portfolio Tools

• Forms
• Evaluations
• Glossary
• Matrices
• Layouts
• Templates
• Reports
• Wizards
• Search
• Web Content
• WebDAV
• Wiki
• Site Setup
• MySakai Widgets