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Welcome to the LMS Review website for MCC. As MCC does every three years, the CTL, in partnership with faculty, staff, and student groups on campus has begun the process of reviewing our current LMS system (WebCT). We are, once again, looking at competing systems and determining where MCC would like to go in the future.
Given the current budget situation, total system costs will be factured into the review process and given a high priority. As always, the future support of teaching and learning in face to face, hybrid, and online courses has high priority.
Our WebCT Contract continues until Spring of 2011, however, we will be very busy until that time ensuring a smooth continuation of service or migration.
| Task | Start Date | Completion Date |
| Meet with IT to develop a list of initial criteria to use to short list LMS vendors for our Review | 03/01/2008 |
05/15/2008 |
| Research and analyze all available Learning Management Systems and limit those to be reviewed based on our initial criteria. | 05/15/2008 | 12/01/2008 |
| Based on our short list of vendors, send invitations to each vendor to come in February / early March prior to Spring Break. | 12/01/2008 | 12/31/2008 |
| Task | Start Date | Completion Date |
Faculty survey sent out requesting top features and requesting ranking of evaluation criteria. 101 responses. |
5/15/2008 and 2/06/2009 |
06/07/2008 2/18/2009 |
Student survey posted and available. 246 responses. |
2/06/2009 | 2/19/2009 |
Specific and general invitations sent to staff, faculty, and acroos the district requesting attendance at the vendor demos. |
02/06/2009 | 02/20/2009 |
| Open Vendor Demonstrations to all MCC faculty and staff, survey attendees (79 attended) | 02/23/2009 | 03/06/2009 |
| Hands on Vendor training workshops (22 attended) | 02/23/2009 | 03/06/2009 |
| Friday CUPPA and review of the Vendor Demos - full videos of some of the vendor visits available on ItunesU for those that missed the sessions. | 03/13/2009 | 03/13/2009 |
| Faculty and staff open lab testing | 03/30/2009 in progress | 4/02/2009 |
| Student open lab testing | 03/30/2009 in progress | 4/02/2009 |
| Survey comparable schools for feedback on each vendor | 4/06/2009 | 4/30/2009 |
| Develop technical, migration, integration, administrative, cost, etc. criteria. | 04/06/2009 | 04/30/2009 |
| Research and analyze each system based on the technical, migration, administrative, integration, cost, etc. criteria. | 04/01/2009 | 07/31/2009 |
| Task | Start Date | Completion Date |
| Research and analyze each system based on the technical, migration, administrative, integration, cost, etc. criteria. | 04/01/2009 | 06/30/2009 |
| Gather all data, surveys, research and develop the final report to present to stakeholders. | 07/01/2009 in progress | 08/15/2009 in progress |
| Task | Start Date | Completion Date |
| Contact each stakeholder group and schedule a date with them at the earliest meeting possible to solicit a recommendation. | 08/15/2009 | 09/15/2009 |
| Contact MCC administration and schedule a date with them to present the final report and stakeholder recommendations in October. | 08/15/2009 | 10/01/2009 |
| Administration decides on the next steps. | 10/01/2009 | 11/30/2009 |
Contact the CTL with any questions and concerns: