[Using Sakai] Maximum members in a Sakai Site

[Steve Lonn]

Here's a message from Sakai-User from last September. John Leasia and Diana Perpich also did a presentation at the Denver Sakai conference about a large site and using Assignments: http://www.slideshare.net/jleasiaum/large-site-single-submit

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>> From: Adam Marshall <adam.marshall at oucs.ox.ac.uk>
>> Date: September 30, 2010 4:27:57 AM EDT
>> To: Josh Baron <Josh.Baron at marist.edu>, "sakai-user at collab.sakaiproject.org" <sakai-user at collab.sakaiproject.org>
>> Subject: Re: [Using Sakai] Anyone have experienc with large (5000+) Project Sites
>> 
>> from our FAQ: http://wiki.oucs.ox.ac.uk/weblearn/SakaiAdministratorFaq
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>> Is there a limit to the number of site participants?
>> A: In theory there is a limit. Some tools start to work slowly with a large number of users. We did an experiment and added 6,500 users to site which containedWiki, Announcements, Mailtool, Resources, Web Content and Home, and everything seemed to work just fine. If you do have a large number of participants, then it is worth checking the performance before getting students to use it!
>> The University of Cape Town have a site with 30,000 users and confirm that the following tools are fine: Announcements, Resources, Chat, Polls, Forums,Evaluation System, Site Info (though slow).
>> Texas State have a site with 1,300 users and confirm that in addition to the above they have no problems with Forums. Tests and Quizzes (which we don't offer here) does not work very well.
>> At Unisa (University of South Africa) there are sites with over 1000 members, they report problems with the following tools:
>> Blogger - slow for large classes; get problems/bugs - this tool has been withdrawn now
>> Dropbox - finding a specific box without a search on the page or re-ordering option
>> Sign up - lecturers’ view is slow with the view of participants
>> Site Info - default view extract all participants; slow for adding new participants on large sites
>> Sitestats - resources view; reports for many events


Hope that helps, Steve

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Steven Lonn, Ph.D.  -  Research Specialist
USE Lab, Digital Media Commons, The Duderstadt Center
MLibrary, University of Michigan
Ph: (248) 905-1566	AIM: simchasl	Web: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~slonn/
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On Jul 8, 2011, at 11:42 AM, Marilyn Dispensa wrote:

> Hi,
> I was wondering what the maximum # of participants or students are 
> possible in a Sakai Site.
> For our first year reading initiative, we have a request to have the 
> entire freshman class of 1600 be enrolled in one site.
> Does anyone have experience managing  projects or classes in Sakai with 
> 1000 + participants? Could you comment on peformance? Managing large 
> numbers of users in groups, gradebook, assessments.
> I've already noticed that the "drop box" cannot be searched for a 
> particular user. It would be nice to be able to sort the drop boxes by 
> participant groups.
> 
> Marilyn
> Ithaca College.
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