{"id":2575,"date":"2016-03-09T16:00:08","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T16:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lesleyelis.com\/elisblog\/?p=2575"},"modified":"2016-03-14T19:19:23","modified_gmt":"2016-03-14T19:19:23","slug":"an-lms-review-at-lesley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lesleyelis.com\/elisblog\/2016\/03\/09\/an-lms-review-at-lesley\/","title":{"rendered":"An LMS Review at Lesley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>Digital Experience Committee<\/strong>\u00a0and <strong>Teaching and Learning with Technology (TLTech) Committee<\/strong>\u00a0are currently conducting\u00a0an LMS Review. Lesley University has been using Blackboard as our learning management system (LMS) since 2005. During this time LMS\u2019s and elearning have changed dramatically. In July 2015, Blackboard released a brand new version of its LMS called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackboard.com\/learning-management-system\/blackboard-learn.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Blackboard Ultra<\/a>. Blackboard Ultra is a major redesign compared to the current version of Blackboard. Since moving to this version would be such a big change, it seemed worthwhile to revisit the LMS market to determine if another LMS would better fit the needs of Lesley University and its faculty and students.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How We Use the LMS (Blackboard):<\/strong><br \/>\nLesley uses the LMS as the primary classroom venue for fully online courses and to enhance face-to-face courses, allowing for students to submit assignments, collaborate together outside of class, and to bring outside resources into the classroom.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The LMS Options Currently Under Review: <\/strong><br \/>\nThe Digital Experience Committee scheduled demos with:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.d2l.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Desire2Learn\/Brightspace<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.canvaslms.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Canvas<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.schoology.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Schoology<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The review committee also looked at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.haikulearning.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Haiku<\/a> and decided to eliminate them from further consideration after the initial vendor demo. Pearson and MoodleRooms were also given brief consideration, but demos were not scheduled with these vendors as they did not seem to fit our needs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blackboard.com\/learning-management-system\/blackboard-learn.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Blackboard Ultra<\/a> is not yet ready for us to do a full review of its platform. We are, therefore, reviewing Blackboard\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.blackboard.com\/top-10-saas-deployment-blackboard-learn\/\" target=\"_blank\">Software as a Service (SaaS)<\/a> options. This would allow us to keep our current version of Blackboard\/myLesley while moving to a cloud-based model that would allow for continuous maintenance with little to no downtime for upgrades.<\/p>\n<p><em>After reviewing detailed descriptions of each of the Learning Management Systems in the TL Tech committee, a smaller subcommittee of faculty was selected\u00a0to decide which vendors should provide demonstrations to the entire campus.<\/em>\u00a0This\u00a0faculty subcommitee\u00a0is currently reviewing and testing these options. We are also in the process of scheduling on-campus vendor-led demos of the systems of most interest to faculty. Keep an eye on this blog and announcements from Faculty Development at Lesley for dates and opportunities to participate. Contact <a href=\"mailto:elis@lesley.edu\" target=\"_blank\">elis@lesley.edu<\/a> with questions and comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Digital Experience Committee\u00a0and Teaching and Learning with Technology (TLTech) Committee\u00a0are currently conducting\u00a0an LMS Review. Lesley University has been using Blackboard as our learning management system (LMS) since 2005. During this time LMS\u2019s and elearning have changed dramatically. In July &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lesleyelis.com\/elisblog\/2016\/03\/09\/an-lms-review-at-lesley\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[223],"tags":[209,328,221],"class_list":["post-2575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mylesley-2","tag-blackboard","tag-lms-review","tag-mylesley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lesleyelis.com\/elisblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lesleyelis.com\/elisblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lesleyelis.com\/elisblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lesleyelis.com\/elisblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lesleyelis.com\/elisblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2575"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.lesleyelis.com\/elisblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2584,"href":"https:\/\/www.lesleyelis.com\/elisblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2575\/revisions\/2584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lesleyelis.com\/elisblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lesleyelis.com\/elisblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lesleyelis.com\/elisblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}