current csu lms activities: campus and systemwide strategies
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In this webinar from April 2010, Dr. David Levin from CSU Northridge and Dr. Linda Scott from CSU San Marcos spoke about their campus migrations from Blackboard to Moodle. They discussed the decision-making process on their campus, their timeline, course migrations, implementations, training and support resources, and lessons learned. Kathy Fernandes and John Whitmer spoke about the Chancellor’s Office Initiative to provide systemwide LMS Services. These services began with the LMS RFP and CSU Sandboxes, and were expanded to provide an LMS “safety net” and a “superset” of LMS services that include systems, integrations, migrations, support services, and educational practices. Participants will learn about these current efforts and plans for the implementation of the LMS recommendations approved by the CSU Academic Technology Steering Committee in December 2009.TRANSCRIPT
March 4, 20103-4:15 pm
Current CSU LMS Activities: Campus and Systemwide Strategies
Dr. David Levin, CSU Northridge Dr. Linda Scott, CSU San Marcos
Kathy Fernandes, CSU Chancellor's Office
Phone Audio:201.549.7592 PIN: 39500637
Agenda1. Welcome and Introductions
2. Campus LMS Migration Updates– CSU Northridge– CSU San Marcos
3. Systemwide LMS Recommendations & Governance
4. Moodle Coordination and Strategies
5. Blackboard Coordination and Strategies
6. Q & A (time permitting)
Welcome and Introductions
Presenters:
Kathy FernandesDirector of System-wide LMS Initiatives, CSU Chancellor's Office
Dr. David Levin Senior Director of Academic Technology, CSU Northridge
Dr. Linda Scott Director, Academic Technology, CSU San Marcos
Campus Migration Update: CSU Northridge
Evaluation – Implementation Timetable Integration Course Migration Communication Training and Support
CSUN Evaluation – Implementation Timetable
Evaluation and selection (2008-09)– Faculty Committee– Pilots – Spring 2009– Decision – June 2009
Implementation (2009-2010)– Negotiations with Moodlerooms– Earlier adopters – Fall 2009– Integration with LDAP – Fall 2009– Integration with SIS – Spring 2010– Course Migration – Spring 2009
CSUN – Integrations Authentication
– LDAP- Fall 2009– Shibboleth – Spring/Summer 2010
SIS– Semi-manual – Fall 2009– Automated – Summer 2010
Embedded Library Services Learning technologies
Spring 2009– Elluminate– Turning Point
Summer/Fall 2009– Respondus– Turning Point
CSUN Course Migration
Using “off the self” migration tool with minor modifications from Moodlerooms
“Automatic” migration of courses from Spring 2009
Migration of older courses by request Need to manage faculty expectations
CSUN Communication
Open forums starting during the evaluation and selection process
Email notifications Flyers Website, Portal, and LMS login pages
CSUN Training and Support
Three part workshop series Special departmental workshops Lynda.com Self-help guides Moodle office hours Moodle Migration hours
Campus Migration Update: CSU San Marcos
Decision was made in September 2009 Became a priority for all of IITS Met with each college Pre-pilot Fall 2009 -- 12 faculty Pilot Spring 2010 – 25 faculty February Town Hall – 2 pilot faculty Archive Request Form and Migration
Content Migration
• We developed a migration tool to convert WebCT 6 content to Moodle• Still developing Quiz Tool migration• Faculty complete an Archive Request Form to migrate content only• We created tutorials for downloading student data from WebCT• Will save backups of all WebCT courses – just in case
Image from a blog “To Moodle or NOT to Moodle” http://keoughp.wordpress.com/2007/06/28/to-moodle-or-not-to-moodle/
Features
1. Announcements can be emailed to students
2. Forum posts hidden until student has posted
3. Students can “subscribe” to forums
4. Section content shared through Metacourses
5. Students can contribute to course glossary
6. Built-in Wiki
Ten
Features
7. Intuitive, fewer support issues
8. Videos and YouTube easily embedded
9. Choice activity allows polling
10.Student Learning Outcomes can be included
Coming soon–video & audio web conferencing
More
•Contextual Help •Book: Using Moodle: Teaching with the Popular Open Source Course Management System•Lynda.com video tutorials•CSU Moodle Consortium QuickGuides•Faculty “Getting Started” Quick Start Guide•Student Mediasite Orientation•Cool Courses Moodle Competition at http://coolcourses.moodle.org/
Resources
Systemwide LMS Governance Systemwide LMS Recommendations
– http://dat.cdl.edu/lms/lms-futures-group– CSU Cloud made up of public and private services– Opt-in Services– Safety Net in production by July 1, 2010– Moodle, then Blackboard
Shared governance of LMS Systems and Services– UCLA CCLE as model– Governance groups: Executive Sponsors, Standards and
Practice Group, Common Interest Groups, LMS Subgroups
Systemwide Governance Diagram
Moodle Coordination and Strategies
Moodle usage increasing within the CSU– 4 production deployments, 3 migrations in progress,
multiple evaluations CSU Moodle Consortium Meetings
– 9 Campuses participating– Areas: Hosting, Training/Help Desk, Migration,
Integrations, additional development Coordinated training resources
– Lynda.com multimedia tutorialshttp://seir.calstate.edu/protected/moodle/
– Editable object-based tutorialhttp://quickguides.calstate.edu
Moodle Coordination: Moodlerooms
Hosted Moodle flavors– Standard (Power) – Enhanced (Joule)
Integrations (Conduit-Peoplesoft, Shibboleth) Automated course creation, backup, restore Course content migration support Advanced reporting, automatic notifications, interface Optional ePortfolio, Equella Content Management System Complete description at DAT LMS Site
http://dat.cdl.edu/swat/moodlerooms
Biweekly meeting Free CSU pilot servers available to any campus
Blackboard Coordination and Strategies New “Strategic Account” Reps Biweekly meetings CSU-Bb Webinar on Roadmap Blackboard centrally hosted? Upcoming coordination
– CSU Sandbox for Bboard v9.1 (5 Campuses)– Campus hosting (Fullerton hosting CI)– Campus Collaboration on hosting old courses?
Contract renewal options (next slide)
Blackboard Contract Renewals
Campuses on 3 year agreement Campuses on last extension move into 2nd year of 3
year agreement Campuses needing short-term extensions will need
to work with Blackboard individually– Consider production versus non-production needs– Archives of courses for grade challenges, course
content– 7% increase for a full year of production license
Questions, Comments, Suggestions?
Feedback/Evaluation: please complete 5-question survey at: http://tinyurl.com/yztp5ye
Documents, references and archive on DAT LMS Website at: http://dat.cdl.edu/ (login)
Contact information:– Kathy Fernandes – [email protected]– Linda Scott – [email protected]– David Levin – [email protected]– John Whitmer – [email protected]