Notes from LMS II Committee Meeting

March 4, 2005 (written by Laura Sederberg)

 

In attendance: Bill Evans, Laura Sederberg, Brian Oppy, Mike Spiess, Phyllis Weddington, Brooke Banks, Steve Adams.

 

Minimum Requirements for LMS for us to consider:

 

·        Accessibility requirements met

·        PeopleSoft integration (demonstrated)

·        Reliability/Stability 99.9%

·        RDBS

·        Track Record at large universities

·        Easy to migrate courses and content

·        Support Plan (affordable)

·        Features list (Tools) at least what we have now

·        Platforms, browsers, plug-ins adequate

·        Backend realiability (No downtime)

·        Disaster Recovery

·        Solid course-level assessment

·        Ease of Use (easier than now)

·        Open Standard

·        Extensibility (PowerLinks, Building Blocks)

 

Call Gartner Group for telephone-meeting during spring break (Brooke will arrange)

 

Talk to users (supporters) of Desire2Learn & Moodle. Do they meet all these criteria?

Desire2Learn not UNIX or LINUX but Windows server only?

 

Talk to Blackboard users (Pomona, Hayward, Long Beach, SF, SLO, Humboldt) about their experience and what version of Bb used.

 

Talk to WebCT users (UBC, Alberta, Georgia, Marshall, UNT) about their experience with Vista implementation.

 

In discussion about a scenario template, these questions came up.

 

  1. How far can we go on the LMS?
  2. How hard will it be to get there? (Consider migration, retraining, retooling, deployment and implementation.)
  3. Will it be usable, efficient?
  4. Will it be available?

 

We need to apply them to a template for writing up a summary for Bill Post, suggestions from Bill Evans, as follows.
Five Main areas (four from our special sessions/groups and one more):

 

  1. Teaching and Learning
    Startup  -- Year 1  --  Year 2  --  Year 3
    Tool Set
    Features List

  2. Academic Program Assessment
    Solid course-level assessment
    Potential for program level assessment, i.e. WASC
    Reporting capabilities

  3. Support & Sustainability
    Reliability
    Support plan
    Migration of courses and content
    Accessibility
    Platforms, browsers, plug-ins

  4. Enterprise Integration
    Availability
    Extensibility
    Standards
    PeopleSoft
    Disaster Recovery

  5. Corporate Partnership
    Vision
    Product Roadmap
    Business Profile
    Track Record
    Ability to perform or execute
    Responsiveness to customers, growth, innovation

 

  1. Summary