[Using Sakai] Maximum members in a Sakai Site

[Adam Marshall]

>From our FAQ

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 contained Wiki, 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).

Valencia have sites with 2000+ users and found performance issues with Dropbox, grading assignments, Markbook.

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    Blogger - slow for large classes; get problems/bugs - this tool has been withdrawn now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

> -----Original Message-----
> From: sakai-user-bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org [mailto:sakai-user-
> bounces at collab.sakaiproject.org] On Behalf Of Marilyn Dispensa
> Sent: 08 July 2011 16:42
> To: Sakai User
> Subject: [Using Sakai] Maximum members in a Sakai Site
> 
> 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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