Sakai offers a variety of capabilities for use in course and project sites, including:
| Home | View recent announcements, discussions, and chat activity |
| Announcements | Post current, time-critical information |
| Assignments | Post assignments and receive submissions online |
| Basiclti | Launch and exchange information with externally-hosted tools |
| Chat Room | Participate in real-time, written conversations |
| Drop Box | Allow private file-sharing between instructors and students |
| Entity Broker | Provides a set of RESTful APIs that support interoperability between Sakai tools. |
| Email Archive | Maintain an archive of all email sent to the worksite's email list |
| Gradebook | Compute and store grades |
| Help | Access help documentation |
| Lessons | Can organize the course by unit, module, week, topic, or any other grouping the instructor creates. Lessons leverages the power of other Sakai tools like Assignments, and Test and Quizzes. |
| Membership | Choose sites in which you would like to participate |
| Messages and Forums | Create discussion forums and communicate between site groups and users using internal mail. |
| News | Display an RSS feed from an external site |
| Podcasts | View podcasts |
| Polls | Create site-based surveys and polls |
| Portfolios | Supports portfolio-based activities with a suite of tools. |
| Post'em | Provides functionality for uploading .csv formatted files to display feedback (e.g., comments, grades) to site participants. |
| Preferences | Set your personal preferences, such as time zone, tab order |
| Profile | Provides a Facebook-style interface for editing user profiles; includes Twitter integration |
| Quartz Scheduler | Schedule and run cron jobs |
| Resources | Add documents and URLs to your worksite |
| Roster | View list of site participants |
| Schedule | Keep track of important dates and deadlines on worksite calendar |
| Search | Provides search capabilities of Sakai content |
| Section Info | Manage sections or groups within a site |
| Shortened URL Service | A simple service that allows tools and services to shorten links to anything, either via the Java-based service or the Entity Provider. |
| Signup tool | Schedule instructor and ta office hours, study groups, and review sessions. |
| Site Info | View worksite profile and participants list |
| Site Stats | View site usage statistics |
| Syllabus | Create a worksite syllabus |
| Tests & Quizzes | Create, administer, and correct tests and quizzes online, and automatically feed the results to the Gradebook |
| Web Content | Include external website content in your worksite |
| Wiki | Collaboratively edit simple web pages |
| Worksite Setup | Create and manage sites |
| Webservices | Includes a rich collection of web services for system admins |
The information displayed here can be modified by the Sakai Administrator by editing the !gateway site.