LMS-updates-2010

=Learning Management System Updates= Pleasants Room Wilson Library, UNC Chapel Hill

Individual Campus LMS Updates
Prior to our meeting on December 2, **please share a brief update** about the status of the LMS (and associated, integrated learning technologies, team staffing changes, etc.) on your campus. (Doing this in advance will allow us to dive in to the group's questions & answers).

> We have also created an LMS hub for students and faculty that allows them to access all of the tools in our LMS suite from one central location which also permits users to submit feedback, make feature requests and view policies. [|Wolfware]
 * //UNC Chapel Hill// - The Sakai Pilot Report was recently reviewed by the Instructional Technology Governance Committee. They recommended moving from Blackboard to Sakai over a three-year period. Their recommendation was later reviewed and approved by the ITS Executive Steering Committee (see [|committee info]) and reported on October 20, 2010 in the //Daily Tarheel// newspaper ([|see articles]). Since the announcement, our team of 4 has been planning, researching, testing, reaching out to people, and otherwise preparing for such a big change. We see one of our biggest (and best) challenges to be one of effective communication so are looking for your advice and suggestions about ways we could accomplish that with all of the different audiences on campus. We continue to use and support Elluminate, [|Voicethread], Respondus, TeamsLX (wiki), and Panopto as well. //Thanks!//
 * NC State - We are currently in the final stages of moving our Blackboard users over to Moodle and continue to support our homegrown LMS Wolfware Classic. As we move forward we are concentrating on enhancing the integration of our LMS to other systems on campus and making strategic enhancements to improve the faculty and student experience. Additional information about governance, strategic planning, assessment etc... can be found at our [|LMS Strategy Wiki.]

Your Questions for the Group
What would you like to discuss, borrow, see, test, or obtain from your colleagues at nearby schools?


 * 1) For those who have undergone an LMS migration, what "lessons learned" can you share with us?
 * 2) Is anybody using/looking seriously at [|Kaltura]?

Meeting Notes
UNC-CH is extending the use of BFree for use with Sakai.

NC State has contracted with a company to migrate courses from BlackBoard Vista to Moodle v. 1.99 that they have adopted. It costs $20.00/course. Some tweaking of the courses is required once they are migrated into the new platform.

NC State has a feature request list which faculty can use to post new tools or features for existing tools in Moodle.

A question for OASIS at UNC-CH is how many people are using Digital Commons for LMS.

At Duke a recommendation has been sent to the Provost regarding a decision to either migrate to BlackBoard 9 or move to an open source LMS. There wasn’t as much faculty engagement as desired while considering this decision. Part of the recommendation includes information about having support in-house or a hosted solution.

NC State has a unique infrastructure to support their LMS that is outside the purview of central IT. They have a group dedicated to supporting the LMS.

NS State also has a liaison in each school that is responsible for answering faculty questions about Moodle. The liaison is approved by the Dean and given special access to the LMS. These individuals are trained and kept current on all functionality as well as FERPA and copyright in order to oversee the courses being taught and created.

LearnNC is considering trying Big Blue Button with Moodle.

Duke’s Project Oz is a group management tool that allows one to define a set of people with different roles and provision a Duke-supported tool applying that set of people and provisions. It is a central location for managing rosters and roles. It was used in Duke's WordPress implementation.