Sakai Project Site Transition

Image demonstrating the timelines of the OWL Sakai Project Sites Transition. Includes Discovery Phase April 2025 - July 2025, the deadline to claim your Project Site is July 30, 2025, Transitions and Migrations can be taking place at any time between April 2025 and April 30, 2026, with access to OWL Sakai being removed on April 30, 2026. Project Status: Discovery Phase

This migration project will include all active Sakai Project sites. The goal will be to migrate them to OWL Brightspace, if eligible, and to alternate solutions if not. 

Project Phases 

  • Phase 1: Planning and Communication (in progress) 
  • Phase 2: Information Gathering and Discovery (in progress)

About this Project

Over 23,000 project sites exist within OWL Sakai which will all be moving from OWL Sakai. At this time, the project team will make academic adjacent project sites the priority.

  • All project sites must be claimed by July 30, 2025. If you have a project site used for Research purposes, we ask that you also complete the claim process to provide us with information, but no further action needs to be taken to transition or migrate your data (pending further discussions with Research Western and other campus partners).  
  • Sakai project sites that ARE eligible to migrate to OWL Brightspace will do so in 2025 (targeted).
  • Sakai project sites that are NOT eligible to migrate to OWL Brightspace are the responsibility of the project site owner to transition to alternative solutions as soon as possible.
  • All project sites must be removed from Sakai by April 30, 2026 when access will be removed. 

See Migration Eligibility Requirements here. 

 

Note: We understand that many staff and faculty take time away from their roles over the summer months. We will take this into consideration as we progress through this project and any decision making.