LMS Project
Goals and Success Criteria
- To select the best LMS for Dickinson
- As good as it needs to be, but not less so
- As cheap as possible, but not less so
- To select an LMS that
- Goes beyond file sharing and integrates LIS services
- That faculty like, can use easily
- Whose advanced features faculty can and will use
- That will improve the student learning experience
- That will fit with LIS's infrastructure of hardware, software, and system admnistration
Milestones (Fall 2008)
Define the purpose of the project
Define a realistic field of choices
Create a Comparison Matrix
Hold a "Bake-off" event
Select a place
Select a date and time
Install or set up versions of each LMS
Select test faculty
Create matrix hand-out and/or poster
Advertize event
Create worksheets
Experiment with Course import/export
Make a Choice
Prepare for the Spring Pilot
Assumptions
Information
Moodle
Sakai
Usage Info
To create a course, click on Site Setup on the left > New at the top and enter the appropriate information on the pages found there. Look for small, blue buttons with question marks to access Help along the way, and there is full online help and search available in the instance; look for Help in the links on the left.
Your campus may create up to 10 courses with up to 100 users (combined faculty and students) in the Basic Service. This shared Sakai instance requires NITLE to add all of your faculty and student users. Please send me the first and last name of each user, and his or her campus email address. Please send as many as possible at one time showing the three separate fields, perhaps as an Excel or CSV file. I will indicate when they have been added and then you can notify your users they have access to NITLE’s Sakai Basic Service, to change their temporary passwords of <OMITTED FOR WIKI>, and they may join courses that have been created.
You will be added to the NITLE-Sakai listserve email list, and we are gradually transferring all of this collaborative interaction to our Sakai Community Project Site where you will find tips, techniques, forums, messages and eventually training material.
https://sakai.nitle.org/osp-portal/site/65545717-f7e0-41b3-00bd-1e838c272b60
