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Blackboard Learning System CE 6.1 Enterprise License

A spell-checker is available for student and instructor responses.

Discussion forums can be threaded, blog format or journals (individual or group). Discussion forums can be viewed by topic, by date, and by thread. Discussion threads are expandable and collapsible to view an entire conversation in one screen. Instructors can associate a discussion with any course content. Posts can contain URLs, file attachments and may contain HTML. The threaded discussion software includes a formatting text editor which can create mathematic equations.

Discussion Forum

Posts may be peer reviewed by other students.

File Exchange

Discussion Management

Instructors can view statistical summaries of discussions displaying participation which can be used to generate grades.

Discussion topics can be made gradable and a grading interface provided. Grading can be assigned by grading form (rubric), numeric or alphanumeric grade. Instructors can limit discussions to specific time periods. Instructors can enable or disable anonymous posting, and determine whether student posts are re-editable.Discussions can be saved or printed for off-line reading.

Students can submit assignments using drop boxes.

File Exchange

Administrators can define disk space limitations for each user.

Students have a private folder into which they can upload and download files. Students may access their folders using WebDAV.

Internal Email

Students can use a searchable address book.

Students can attach notes to any page.

Students can use the built-in email functionality to email individuals or groups.

Instructors can email the entire class at once at a single address or alias.

Students can elect to forward their mail to an external address.

The internal email system supports archiving, searching and attachments. Students can spell check outgoing messages.

Online Journal/Notes

Students can combine their notes with the course content to create a printable study guide.

Real-time Chat

Online Journal/Notes

Journal discussion type provides a way for students to share notes and thoughts with the instructor and or other students.

The chat tool supports unlimited simultaneous group discussions

Instructors may moderate chats and suspend students from the chat rooms.

The chat tool supports a structured way for students to ask questions and instructors to provide answers.

The system creates archive logs for all chat rooms.

The system does not limit the number of simultaneous rooms. Students can see who else is online across the entire system and invite them to a chat room. That is combined with whiteboard tool, see whiteboard description for more information.

Real-time Chat

Whiteboard

The whiteboard supports mathematical symbols.

The whiteboard supports image and PowerPoint uploading.

The software can archive a recording of whiteboard sessions for future viewing.

Whiteboard

Productivity ToolsBookmarks Students can share their bookmarks.

Whiteboard usage can be moderated, and is combined with the chat tool (see chat description for more information).

Students can create bookmarks in a private folder.

Bookmarks

Students can bookmark any content material in a course.

Calendar/Progress Review

Instructors and students can post events in the online course calendar.

Instructors can post announcements to a course announcement page.

Students have a personal home page that lists all courses in which the student is enrolled, new email and all course and system-wide events from their personal calendar.

Students can view their grades on completed assignments, total points possible, course grade, and compare their grades against the class performance.

Students can search all course content.

Students can search all discussion threads.

Calendar/Progress Review

Calendar entries can be linked to course materials and activities. Events can be repeating. Institutional calendar events and announcements can be added as well.

Searching Within Course

Searching Within Course

Students can search all assignments, course content, discussion threads, and email messages in their course. Students can constrain a search using filters.

Work Offline/Synchronize

Students can compile and download the content for an entire course into a format that can be printed or stored locally.

Instructors can publish course content on a CD-ROM that can be linked to dynamically from within the online course or viewed offline.

Orientation/Help

Student Involvement ToolsGroupwork Instructors can assign students to groups.

Students can self-select groups.

Each group can have its own discussion forum.

Each group can have its own chat or whiteboard.

Work Offline/Synchronize

Students can access context sensitive help for any tool.

The system includes online tutorials for students that help students learn how to use the system.

The system can randomly create groups of a certain size or a set number of groups.

Each group can be given group-specific assignments or activities.

Groups may be private or instructors can monitor groups.

Groupwork

Instructors can selectively release any course content or activity to a group.

Community Networking

Student Portfolios

Students can export their personal home page.

Community Networking

Students can create a personal home page in each course.

Students can use their personal home page to selectively display their course work.

Student Portfolios

Administration ToolsAuthentication

The system supports Shibboleth.

Students are given a private folder for content by default. A personal profile tool is included in the product and empowers students to choose what information to share with classmates. The Blackboard Portfolio for CE and Vista is available at additional cost and provides additional features for creationg of a personal portfolio. See Blackboard website.

The system can authenticate against an external LDAP server.

The system can authenticate using the Kerberos protocol.

The system supports the Central Authentication Service (CAS).

The system can authenticate against IMAP, POP3 or secure NNTP.

Administrators can set up fail-through authentication against a secondary source (e.g. the system's own database) in the event that the primary source (e.g. LDAP server ) fails.

The system can support multiple organizational units and virtual hosts within a server configuration.

http://www.blackboard.com/products/academic_suite/portfolio

Authentication

Course Authorization

The system supports restricting access based on roles and roles can also be customizedby the service provider.

Administrators can create an unlimited number of custom organizational units and roles with specific access privileges to course content and tools.

Administrators can distribute the permissions and roles across multiple institutions or departments hosted in the server environment.

Instructors or students may be assigned different roles in different courses.

Course Authorization

Registration Integration

Instructors can add students to their courses manually or allow students to self-register.

Administrators can transfer student information bidirectionally between the system and an SIS using IMS Enterprise Specification v1.1 XML files via web services.

The software supports data interchange with student information systems through an event-driven API.

The software supports integration with SCT Banner, SCT Luminis, Datatel, PeopleSoft 8 or customized integration with other SIS or portal systems.

The software is compliant with the IMS Enterprise Specification for Student Data.

Hosted Services The product provider offers a hosted solution.

Registration Integration

The product provider offers a hosted system that includes service level agreements with guaranteed system availability, utilizes a network of high-performance, fault-tolerant servers, a secure facility with environmental control, redundant and conditioned power, a modern alarm/security system, 24x7x365 monitoring, a direct T3 connection with second redundant T3 connection, and daily offsite tape backups. Individuals can access course and system information from any computer that has a web browser and Internet connection.

Hosted Services

Course Delivery ToolsTest Types Multiple choice

Multiple answerMatchingJumbled sentenceCalculatedFill-in the blankShort answer

Survey questionsEssayQuestions can contain other media elements (images, videos, audio)

Automated Testing Management

The system can randomize the questions and answers.

Instructors can create self-assessments.

Instructors can set a time limit on a test.

Instructors can permit multiple attempts.

The system supports proctored tests.


The students are allowed to review past attempts of a quiz.

Instructors can specify whether correct results are shown as feedback

The system supports a MathML editor for the inclusion of mathematical formulas in questions. Test access can be restricted by IP range.

Instructors can create personal test banks.

The system provides test analysis data.


Automated Testing Support

Questions can be imported from external test banks that support QTI.

Automated Testing Support

Online Marking Tools

Instructors can choose to mark each student on all questions or to mark each question on all students.

Instructors can choose to evaluate student responses anonymously.

Instructors can enable students to rate and comment on submissions of other students.

Online Gradebook

Online Marking Tools

When an instructor adds an assignment to the course, the software automatically adds it to the gradebook.

Instructors can add grades for offline assignments.

Instructors can add details to the gradebook in custom columns.

Instructors can export the scores in the gradebook to an external spreadsheet.

Instructors can create a course grading scale that can employ either percents, letter grades, or pass/fail metrics.

Online Gradebook

Gradeable assignments, discussions and assessments are automatically added to the gradebook when added to a course. Name columns are frozen on left when scrolling grade book.

Course Management

Instructors can selectively release assignments, assessments, and announcements based on specific start and stop dates.

Course Management

Instructors can release materials based on a single criteria (date, grade, etc.) or instructors can use Boolean expressions to identify multiple selective release criteria.

Instructors can set up specific course content that is released on a specific date and must be completed by students before they continue with the course.

Instructors can link discussions to specific dates or course events.

Instructors can personalize access to specific course materials based on group membership.

Instructors can personalize access to specific course materials based on previous course activity.

Instructors can personalize access to specific course materials based on student performance.

Student Tracking

Course Management

Program and institutional goals may be specified using the "Goals" tool and tied to particular activities in the course.

Instructors can track the frequency and duration of student access to individual course components.

Instructors can get reports showing the time and date and frequency students as an aggregated group accessed course content.

Instructors can get reports showing the number of times, time, date, frequency and IP address of each student who accessed course content, discussion forums, course assessments, and assignments.

Instructors can review the navigation record of each student.

Usage statistics can be aggregated across courses or across the institution.

Student Tracking

Content Development Tools

Instructors can export all student tracking data. Instructors can share tracking information with students.

Accessibility Compliance

The product provider self-reports that the software complies with Section 508 of the US Rehabilitation Act.

The product provider self-reports that the software complies with the WAI WCAG 1.0 Level A guidelines.

The product complies with many of the WAI WCAG 1.0 AA and AAA guidelines are also. To help with content accessibility, the software implements many features for course designers as well.

Accessibility Compliance

Content Sharing/Reuse

Course Templates


The software provides support for template-based course creation.

Course content may be uploaded through WebDAV.

Course templates may contain selective release criteria and custom gradebook columns that persist with each new course instance.

Course Templates

The system allows administrators to use an existing course or a pre-defined template as a basis for a new course.

Customized Look and Feel

The system provides default course look and feel templates.

Instructors can change the navigation icons and color schemes for a course.

Instructors can change the order and name of menu items for a course.


Institutions can create their own look and feel templates across the entire system, including their own institutional logos, headers, and footers.

IMS Content Packaging 1.1.3IMS QTI 1.2.1Microsoft LRNSCORM 1.2


Instructional Design Tools

Instructors can organize learning objects, course tools, and content into learning sequences that are reusable.

Instructors can create linear learning sequences organized hierarchically by course, lesson, and topic.

Instructors can reuse courses as templates for future lessons.

All items can be conditionally released to provide appropriate progression or remediation as needed, based on time, grade book criteria, group membership and user ID.

Instructional Standards Compliance

Hardware/Software

The system supports Oracle.

The system supports MS SQL Server.

UNIX Server A Unix version is available.

Windows Server A Windows version is available.

Company Details/Licensing

Instructional Standards Compliance

Client Browser Required

Current Browser Requirements

Database Requirements

http://www.webct.com/tuneup/viewpage?name=tuneup_browser_tuneup_information#browsers

Company Profile

Costs / Licensing

Open Source

Optional Extras

Blackboard Inc. (NASDAQ: BBBB) is a leading provider of enterprise software applications and related services to the education industry. Founded in 1997, Blackboard enables educational innovations everywhere by connecting people and technology. Millions of people use Blackboard everyday at academic institutions around the globe, including colleges, universities, K-12 schools and other education providers, as well as textbook publishers and student-focused merchants that serve education providers and their students. Blackboard is headquartered in Washington, D.C., with offices in North America, Europe, Australia and Asia.

The annual license fee is based on FTE students in an institution or consortium. Optional annual licenses, with three year terms are available.

The Blackboard Portfolio is available as an addon to Vista. In addition, many optional Powerlinks are available from software vendors or customers who have created them.

http://www.webct.com/powerlinks/viewpage?name=powerlinks_showcase

Optional Extras The Blackboard Portfolio is available as an addon to Vista. In addition, many optional Powerlinks are available from software vendors or customers who have created them.

http://www.webct.com/powerlinks/viewpage?name=powerlinks_showcase

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Moodle Elearningforce Inc.Communication Tools

Students can subscribe to forum RSS feeds.

Students can enable or disable posts to be sent to their email.


Students can receive posts by email as daily digests of subject lines or whole posts.





Posts may be peer reviewed by other students. Instructors can allow students to create discussion groups.


Instructors can set up moderated discussions where all posts are screened.



Discussions can be shared across courses, departments, or any institutional unit.




Students can share the contents of their personal folders with other students.


Students can create new rooms.


The chat tool supports a limited number of simultaneous rooms.









The software supports graphing, polling, and instructor moderation.

The software supports group web browsing.

Productivity ToolsStudents can share their bookmarks.

The software supports application desktop sharing.


The software supports two-way voice chat.

The whiteboard is organized on the basis of MS Office Communication Server.









Students can subscribe to RSS feeds to be notified of changes to materials.

Students can search all discussion threads. Students can search all course content.



Students can search chat.


Students can download course content and discussion group content with a PDA.

Custom help system can be organized.

Student Involvement ToolsInstructors can assign students to groups.

Each group can have its own discussion forum. Students can self-select groups.




Instructors can assign students to groups.







Groups can be added to the courses from Active Directory.

Students can create online clubs, interest, and study groups at the system level.

Students from different courses can interact in system-wide chat rooms or discussion forums.

Administration Tools

Students can also create a personal home page using SharePoint MySite.

Administrators can allow guest access to all courses.






Allowed batch scripting.



Administrators can batch add students to the system using a delimited text file.


Administrators can transfer student information bidirectionally between the system and an SIS using delimited text files.

Hosting and support services from Commercial Affiliates.

The product provider offers a hosted solution.


Course Delivery ToolsMultiple choice Multiple choice

Multiple answer Multiple answerMatching MatchingFill-in the blank OrderingShort answer Jumbled sentenceEssay Calculated

Fill-in the blank

Short answerSurvey questionsEssay


The product provider offers a hosted or non hosted solution on demand.

Hosting and support services from official resellers.

Questions can contain other media elements (images, videos, audio)












The system supports a MathML editor for the inclusion of mathematical formulas in both questions and answers.



The system provides test analysis data.


Instructors can create system wide test banks.







Instructors can release materials based on a single criteria (date, etc.)

Content Development ToolsThe product provider self-reports that the software complies with Section 508 of the US Rehabilitation Act.



The product provider self-reports that the software complies with the WAI WCAG 1.0 AA guidelines.

Instructors can share content with other instructors and students through a central learning objects repository.

The repository can be system-wide or for individual organizational units.

Tools are available to enable version tracking and linking to specific versions as well as the creation and management of workflows for collaborative content creation and review.


The system can support multiple institutions, departments, schools or other organizational units on a single installation where each unit can apply its own look and feel templates as well as institutional images, headers and footers.


Institutions can create their own look and feel templates across the entire system, including their own institutional logos, headers, and footers using SharePoint Designer.

SCORM 1.2 SCORM 1.2SCORM 1.3 SCORM 1.3

Multilevel organization feature allows having separate environments with their own courses and tools for each department within a single installation.




Hardware/Software

The system supports MySQL. The system supports MS SQL Server.

A Unix version is available.

A Windows version is available. A Windows version is available.


All major browsers are accepted, IE is preferable.

http://docs.moodle.org/en/About_Moodle

Registered users based licensing model.

Platform:

MOSS 2007 & WSS3.0.

Documents:System is well integrated with MS Office

ElearningForce is a Software Development Company formed in 2003 to deliver high quality Elearning Solutions for the Education and Commercial sectors.

The software is distributed under one of the OSI-approved licenses.

Shortcuts can be created for the documents and copied to any system courses.

Plagiarism prevention feature:

Documents can be organized, sorted and grouped by the users.

System can detect similar or fully copied documents used by learners over Internet and locally.

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Discussions can be viewed by date, by thread, by title or by author. Users may create separate discussion environments for small groups. Discussion threads are expandable and collapsible to view an entire conversation on one screen. Posts can include media, equations, attachments or URL addresses. Posts can be either plain text or html. Administrators can enable or disable anonymous postings. The entire discussion can be saved or printed for off-line reading. Discussions can be shared across courses, departments, or any organizational unit. Users can associate a discussion with any course content. Users can limit discussions to specific time periods and for specific groups. Discussion topics can be tied to learning activities. Discussion messages are then assessed using scoring rubrics, and that assessment is used to evaluate learning objectives and competencies. User contributions in discussions can be evaluated and tied to grade items. Numerous options determine how the grade is calculated. Courses can enable peer review of discussion posts. Roles with appropriate permission can provide a 1-5 rating for discussion posts.



Forums can be created at the site level, course level, and group level. They are made up of Topics, which serve as separate sections for communication and collaboration about particular “topics” of conversation. Within a Topic area, users can create discussions to which others can then post replies.

Instructors can allow students to create discussion groups.

Instructors can allow students to create discussion groups.









Multiple group topics/forums can be automatically created based upon rules (e.g. manual enrollment, self-enrollment, auto-enrollment into groups of x, or auto-enrollment into x groups).

Forums can be backed up (archived) within a course backup. Course backup files can then be exported in a ZIP file, imported or restored to retrieve selected course data, such as forums. If an instructor wants to move a discussion, there is a drop down menu that allows the selection of which forum or topic it should be moved to. If a teacher wants to move a reply post, they have the option to split the reply and move it to a different discussion.



Students can share the contents of their personal folders with other students.


Students can submit assignments using drop boxes. They can also attach files to discussion forums or in messages using eMail List in joule. Instructors can also create a database activity and allow students to upload files to a common area. Instructors can use joule's integrated digital repository to store, share, rate and tag files and content in a central location.

Drop box assignment folders can be linked to grade items and instructors can associate feedback with uploaded assignments. The system could be setup to apply a naming convention to files (e.g. userid - date submited - name - file name). All users can use a private locker into which they can upload and download files. Students can upload files to a shared group folder. Administrators can set folder permissions and quota tracking on their folders. Virus detection technology can be used throughout the file upload/download process. Group dropboxes can be setup so that each member of a group can submit to the same dropbox. The group can then be assessed as a whole through the Grades or Competencies tools. When a user submits a file to the dropbox they can choose to submit the file from their locker computer or their locker (or group locker). Graders have a function that allows them to preview how a student would submit to the dropbox and even grade that submission to ensure it was setup properly. You can select multiple assignments and edit their properties at once. Educators can also use Manage Files to upload/download/zip/cut/copy/paste/delete files for the course. Educators can also manage these files with folders and if they have access, they can publish them to Learning Repository. WebDAV option is available for them to drag-and-drop files. Files can be copied between courses and

Students can attach notes to any page.








joule has several options for internal e-mail, including the Message module, eMail List feature and Quickmail feature. eMail list allows for internal messages with attachments. Quickmail allows instructors to select a subset of students within a course to send a mass message.

The Desire2Learn email system can be setup to support multiple modes: full email system, internal course-mail only, forwarded to an external account, IMAP, and other combinations. The email system also supports tracking/filtering correspondence by course, folders, personal address-books, search, and more. Emails can be composed using HTML editor, spell checked, saved as drafts, and can add multiple attachments. Flexible email permissions allow for different email options for each role. For instance, for certain roles, administrator can restrict receiving messages from email address that are not internal. Also, storage quotas can be defined individually for each role in the system.

joule's blog feature enables each user to have his or her own online journal. Users can tag each entry and decide who can view it. This allows students to create a blog entry for the purpose of taking private notes or creating a private journal with the option of sharing their work. Users can also attach a file to their blog entry, insert an image, and embed multimedia or any other HTML item.

Students can combine their notes with the course content to create a printable study guide.

Students can create new rooms. Students can create new rooms.

joule's blog feature enables each user to have his or her own online journal. Users can tag each entry and decide who can view it. This allows students to create a blog entry for the purpose of taking private notes or creating a private journal with the option of sharing their work. Users can also attach a file to their blog entry, insert an image, and embed multimedia or any other HTML item.

Users can make notes in a personal journal and may share them with their instructor. Students can make notes in a personal work area in preformatted text or HTML-style with tags and can perform spell checking. Users can choose to Blog in an environment that is either open to the public or restricted to users in their Learning Environment (determined by administrators). They can also choose to make entries private, supporting the concept of a Blog journal. A user has the ability to decide which entries they wish to receive comments and how long an entry appears on their list. Furthermore, RSS feed is supported in Blog feature such that users do not necessary need to login to Desire2Learn to see new headlines and articles. These features provide a safe and secure environment for a Blogger to communicate and add links, images, media files and to receive feedback.











Desire2Learn offers a AJAX-based HTML chat which doesn't require any plug-ins and has settings to optimize for screenreaders too (for accessibility). In addition, Desire2Learn offers a full synchronous chat whiteboard/canvas, presentation technology called LiveRoom(TM). There is also a built-in instant messaging tool, also known as Pager -- this tool can be used to send quick instant messages to others in contacts list. It is disabled during quizzes. In addition, Desire2Learn integrates seamlessly to Elluminate with the Online Rooms tool, allowing users to create, manage, and launch synchronous Elluminate sessions from Learning Environment if the organization has an Elluminate license.

Chat sessions can be enabled for specific groups or can be used as a virtual office for communication between students and instructors Privacy settings can be changed to make chats visible to students in the course or hidden so only someone with instructor or administrator permissions in the chat is able to see it.

Chatters can insert smileys, hyperlinks, and even HTML code to do things like insert images, play sounds or create different colored and sized text. When two or more people participate in a chat session, a complete transcript of the session is created. An instructor can choose how long these transcripts are saved and are available for viewing. Instructors also have the option to make these chat transcripts available to all of the learners in the course.









Productivity Tools







Rooms can be created easily and moderator has the ability to manage participants and the session. Participants can be "promoted" or "demoted", ask questions, raise hands, send private chat messages and more. Presentation management tools allow annotations, drawing canvas or whiteboard, resource sharing, quick link to course content, highly-scalable chat program, as well as a fully integrated web browser. LiveRoom Express option is also available for organizations that only need canvas whiteboard for their presentation needs. Content uploaded to LiveRoom can be re-used within the Learning Environment, and content used in the Learning Environment is available directly from LiveRoom. Finally, there is a built-in instant messaging tool, also known as Pager. This tool can be used to send quick instant messages to others in contacts list. It is disabled during quizzes. Integration with Elluminate provides an additional option for synchronous communication if the organization has an Elluminate license.

joule provides white board capabilities through AMVONET Connect Lite -- a free mPower Plug-In. Moodlerooms has also successfully integrated third-party white board tools such as WebEx, Wimba, Elluminate Live!, Dimdim and WizIQ. Customers have the option to select whichever tool best meets their needs. (NOTE: Some third-party tools require a subscription from the third party)




As a Web-based application, students can bookmark pages within joule using their preferred Web browser. Most Web popular browsers also allow students to make notes about the page within the bookmark.

Users can create annotated bookmarks, one at a time, for specific courses. Students can bookmark content pages, creating a link that allows them to quickly return to any particular section in the course content. There is also a jump to last topic bookmark.









Students can subscribe to RSS feeds to be notified of changes to materials.

Students can search all course content. Students can search all course content.

The system also supports shared calendars, and the ability to look up other individuals availability for group meetings. There is also advanced import/export based upon the iCal standard to support integration with Microsoft Outlook or other calendar systems. There is also the ability post events across departments, the organization, or any other organizational unit. Events can be prioritized (e.g. normal, high, low). The system also supports auto-population of calendar from key tools such as quizzing, dropbox, etc.

The calendar within joule displays global site events, course events, group events and a user’s manually added personal events. Course events are automatically created if closing dates are added to activities like assignments, assessments and forums, along with a link to the activity. Calendar styles can be customized through the use of themes, which can be enabled for users.

The Calendar block shows an outline of the current date as well as a color coded monthly view that displays events upon mouse over. Users can hide or show various categories of events by clicking on the color key below the calendar. This can make the calendar easier to read (especially if there are many events on the calendar). Calendars can be exported and then imported to a mobile device or in software such as Apple iCal, Microsoft Outlook, or Mozilla Thunderbird.



Desire2Learn Learning Repository allows course content/files to be stored/searched/accessed within the course by users in the system by utilizing standard based metadata. For more information on Learning Repository, please refer to section on Content Sharing/Reuse below.

joule has several search functions. Global searches can search site-wide and course-wide, and each course has a specific forum search. Both global searches and forum searches have advanced search options. Global Search can search for content in an uploaded file after indexing. Instructors can selectively include or exclude course components from search by selectively indexing content.


Students can download course content and discussion group content with a PDA.

Instructors can publish course content on a CD-ROM that can be linked to dynamically from within the online course or viewed offline.

Instructors can upload content in PDF, Word, PPT or other file formats as a resource within a course to allow students to download and store content locally. joule also allows for selective back up of courses and course content. Each backup is stored as a zip file that can be downloaded (exported) for offline storage or restored to another course. Any backup file that has been exported can be imported at a later date and restored using the restore feature in the administration block. Most data related to student activity can be included in a course back up.

Student Involvement Tools

Students can self-select groups.

Instructors can publish course content on a CD-ROM that can be dynamically linked from within the online course or viewed offline. Students can compile and download the content for an entire course into a format that can be printed or stored locally.





The system includes online guides and inline help. Users can access context sensitive help for each of the major tools. Help items are further customizable by the institution. Users can use keywords to search a guide and other help documentation made available by the organization. Institutions can also create FAQs and help files, as well as custom widgets to organize access to orientation information.

Students can access context sensitive help for any tool that can be customized by the site administrator as desired. joule also includes context sensitive step-by-step tutorials to help end-users (instructors, students, etc.) learn how to use the platform. Additionally, Moodlerooms provides free access to all end-users to a detailed product knowledge base.













Instructors can create groups/sections so students can see common materials for a course. Groups can be made invisible (so users can only see their own groups) or visible (so users can work within their own groups and, with read only access, view other groups as well). Instructors can also use joule's grouping feature to create groups of groups.

Each group can have its own shared group presentation folder, discussion forum, chat room, group email list, assignments, activities, assessments, shared calendar events, file exchange, assigned group leadership. A user can assign grades to entire groups. When creating group categories you can provide the members of those groups with their own areas in the discussions, dropbox and locker tools. Users now have a ‘group homepage’ where they can see all of the groups they belong to, and what group workspaces are available. Options exist to automatically enroll new users in a course into groups based on pre-defined logic (i.e. X number of people per group, or a maximum of X groups).





Users from different courses can interact in system-wide chat rooms or discussion forums. Users can create online clubs, interest, and study groups. Users can send email to their groups, use a shared chat space, calendar and announcements, and share material privately within the group. Additionally, Desire2Learn platform can be used as a collaboration environment for executive committees and corporate working groups. For instance, Desire2Learn Community is powered by Desire2Learn Learning Environment and has been specifically configured to work more as a community space than a traditional course delivery environment.

If given the appropriate permissions, an organization can create "courses" for clubs students can create online clubs, interest, and study groups. These groups can have their own catalog, templates, discussion boards, and more. joule's social format enables collaborative course editing at the student level. Additionally, profiles include an "Interests" field where each entered interest becomes a hyperlink that connects users with other users that share that interest.






Through our integration with eFolioWorld, students can create customizable and portable Web-based portfolios to manage their education and plan their career. Learners are able to store and organize their educational, career and personal data and take it wherever life takes them. Students can selectively and securely display their course work, personal information, photos, links, etc.

Administration Tools

The system supports Shibboleth. The system supports Shibboleth.

Desire2Learn also offers a full ePortfolio product (see http://www.desire2learn.com/eportfolio/).















The system has a password reminder option and students can maintain their own passwords. Administrators can set password length restrictions and require password changes after the initial logon and after a specified period of time. Single Sign On option is also supported. User logins can be encrypted with the Secure Sockets Layer protocol.

joule supports more than 15 methods of authentication. Courses can be set to allow guest (public) access or to require individuals to enter a correct username and password before gaining access. Moodlerooms can also provide SSL encryption for organizations that require it.









Administrators can create multiple categories and designate users, courses, roles, and branded themes to each category. joule has a sophisticated 4-layer roles-based access system. Administrators can mix and match capabilities, permissions and contexts to create an unlimited number of custom roles with specific access privileges to course content and tools. Instructors or students may be assigned different roles in different courses. Administrators and Instructors can assign different levels of access to the system or to specific courses based on pre-defined roles. Administrators can use roles to delegate administration of the system to different organizational entities within an institution or consortia. The system can access authorization information stored in an LDAP directory.















Using Conduit (a systems integration tool within joule), administrators can automate batch loading and enrollment of students to a course from an external information system. Students can also self-register. Self-registration can be controlled through the use of enrollment keys (passwords). Administrators can also automate batch creation of courses, users, and enrollments in the system. Conduit can also be configured to enable bi-directional data exchange between joule and an SIS. joule supports the use of SOAP-based data integration.



The product provider offers only a hosted solution.

The product provider offers a hosted system that includes 24x7x365 monitoring, redundant hosting platforms, intrusion detection, nightly backups, options for geographical disaster recovery, and service level agreements on a network of high-performance, fault-tolerant servers with fail-over capability with redundant Tier 1 network connections.

Course Delivery ToolsMultiple choice Multiple choice

Multiple answer Multiple answerMatching MatchingOrdering OrderingCalculated Jumbled sentenceFill-in the blank CalculatedShort answer Fill-in the blank

Survey questions Short answerEssay Survey questions

Essay

Custom question types can be defined.

Custom question types can be defined.

Moodlerooms offers a hosted system that includes 99.97% Service Level Agreements (99.997% average uptime) with guaranteed system availability and performance on a network of high-performance, fault-tolerant servers with fail-over capability including load balancing and clustering, managed software installation and ongoing maintenance, redundant Internet connections, redundant and conditioned power, 24x7x365 monitoring, 30 GB storage space to start (per 500 users), 600 GB of bandwidth to start (per 500 users), redundant T3 connections, daily data backups that are retained for one week each and monthly backups that are retained for 3 months each, and a secure facility with environmental control and a biometric security system.





Instructors can create self-assessments. Instructors can create self-assessments.

Instructors can set a time limit on a test. Instructors can set a time limit on a test.

The system supports proctored tests. The system supports proctored tests.









The system supports Remote Quiz Protocol which allows questions to be rendered and scored externally to the system via standards-based web services.

Multiple languages and mathematical symbols can be used in creation of questions and responses, as well as embedded images, graphs/charts, symbols, audio or video files, HMTL, and file attachments because the same text editor is used within quizzes as is used throughout joule. Instructors can create different levels of feedback messages, import questions from existing test banks and set open and close dates/times to control when students can access the quiz.

The system provides test analysis data. The system provides test analysis data.

Quizzes have several security options to help secure assessments. Time limits for quizzes may be specified, at which point the LMS launches a floating timer (Web browser must be able to support JavaScript) with a countdown. When time runs out, the quiz is automatically submitted. Capabilities may be set to allow a student to have unlimited time on timed tests – particularly beneficial for those requiring accommodations. Quizzes can be shown in a ""secure"" window as well, which restricts some of the things that students can do with their browsers, launches the quiz in a new full screen window (so they cannot use resources from their joule course to cheat), and prevents certain mouse actions on text or keyboard commands. Number of attempts and how long the quiz is available can be limited. Quizzes can also be password protected so only those with permission can access it. Specific network addresses can also be specified and required, which is helpful for making sure only those within a proctored room are accessing and taking the quiz.







There is a consolidated question library for quizzes, surveys and self assessments. Test questions can incorporate images, sound, video and other media types. Questions can be built with the tool or instructors can import and export questions from external test banks in the IMS QTI specification format or custom CSV format. Questions can be randomized to provide different questions for different users/attempts. Random values can be generated for variables to provide different questions to different students. Users can also use HTML editor and Spell Check feature to respond to questions. You can set a time limit on a test and give special access for individual students. Assessments can be restricted by IP address or a password. Assessments can be shared across several organizational units, and data can be aggregated during report generation. Quizzing allows you to customize reports on user and question data that can be exported. Users can override the automated scoring and determine how to communicate test results to students. At the users discretion, questions can be edited on multiple quizzes at the same time and in the question library. Students can also be locked out of the instant messaging tool and have their copy/paste and print tools restricted while taking a quiz. Respondus Lockdown Browser is also supported.

Instructors can create question pools, and export and import those pools. The system provides analysis data for surveys and test item results can be exported for analysis. joule provides detailed reports that allow an instructor to easily gauge student performance, comprehension based on outcomes and effectiveness of questions.







Instructors can provide feedback during quizzes and along with grades using joule's grade book. Furthermore, Moodlerooms' partnership with iParadigms provides integrated online marking functionality using iParadigms Grademark feature, an innovative paperless grading tool that makes it easy for instructors to give students the valuable, time sensitive feedback that is so essential for building quality writing skills.











Users can grade assignments, essay type quizzes/exams online and provide feedback. Grades from quizzes and assignments can be updated in Gradebook tool automatically. There is the ability to manually edit all grades using just the keyboard. Gradebook tool is useful for basic statistical analysis and final grade calculation. The software automatically calculates the minimum, maximum, and average grade on any grade items including assignments and quizzes. Grade items can be grouped according to grade categories created by instructors. For instance, grade items Quiz #1 and #2 are part of Quiz category/section. Instructors can create a course grading scale that can employ either percentages, letter grades or pass/fail metrics and even create custom grade schemes. Furthermore, grade items can use built in formula editor to create functions which includes If statement, Max/Min, Sum, Avg, etc. to aggregate multiple grade items together allowing instructors to create complex grades scenarios for their course. The Gradebook supports import/export comma-delimited (csv) files. All Gradebook activities are tracked and stored in event logs. Learning Environment also supports the creation of scoring rubrics that can be used as a scoring guide for subjective and quantitative assessments. Rubrics can be created and copied for use within a course, or shared across the organization. Rubrics can have any number of

Grades in joule are tied to course activities and automatically calculated and entered (or refreshed) when a student completes an assignment, assessment or participation-based activity (such as posting in a forum or viewing a video). Grades can also be manually entered if the activity occurs offline, and automatically calculated grades can be manually edited by row (student) or column (graded item). Grades can be weighted or excluded for students who have been given exceptions. Instructors can also use the grade book to send e-mail reminders to students who are missing work.

Symbols to represent ranges of grades may be set as grade letters. Instructors can also delegate the responsibility for grading assignments through roles. Grades can be exported to CSV, XML, XLS or Text format. Exported grades can be transferred to a student information system using Moodlerooms’ systems integration tool (Conduit). Grades can also be automatically transfered to an SIS through Moodlerooms Web services.



Instructors can release materials based on a single criteria (date, grade, etc.) or instructors can use Boolean expressions to identify multiple selective release criteria.











Instructors can set open dates for the scheduled release of instructions/ descriptions of assignments and quizzes. Students can see the assignment or quiz on their calendar (much like a syllabus) but will not be able to see details or submit anything until the specified date. Instructors can also hide content and manually unhide it when they wish to release it.

Supported versions of IMS CP packages can be imported and also exported from any course in the Learning Environment. Users (that have permission to do so) have the ability to choose individual items to copy/import/export. For instance, instructors can choose a single quiz and specific topic to export rather than exporting all quizzes and content. Also, courses can be reoffered by using Copy Course Component feature. Competencies can be assessed automatically using quizes, surveys, dropbox assignments and manually using an online rubric builder. There is a single interface that controls which tools an organization will use. Each course can then choose which of those tools they actually want to use (i.e. the Organization may enable the ‘LiveRoom’ tool, but a given course may turn that off it they don’t want to use it).











Content Development Tools

Administration can share this tracking information with the user, if desired. A data warehouse, stores the information the Learning Environment logs such that large reports can run during normal business operations. All data in the data warehouse is documented in the Data Dictionary such that 3rd party reporting tool can be used to access the data. Flexible data set definitions allow for many reports to be generated. Reporting supports many filters as well as render types including Tabular, Area, Line, Bar and Pie graphs. Additional reports on usage and activity are provided by Desire2Learn Analytics (see http://www.desire2learn.com/analytics/)

joule's enhanced reports and dashboards allow teachers to view activity and performance information in numerical and graphic formats. Instructors can create alerts based on student activity events (or lack thereof) with course activities, and receive notifications when a particular event occurs. Activity and participation reports show the number of times and date on which each student accessed course content, discussion forums and assignments.





Desire2Learn actively tests with the JAWS, and other screen readers and assistive technologies. The company works with clients, the accessibility community and the W3C to validate and identify accessibility features. Users can also change font sizes and styles to meet their accessibility needs. The Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT) is an industry standard template for recording how a product or service conforms to Section 508 standards. This VPAT outlines the compliance of Learning Environment 8.4.

"As an internationally developed tool, Moodle (the core of joule) is designed to meet a variety of world accessibility requirements, including Section 508, Section 504 and W3C. Moodle is the only open-source learning management system that is fully Section 508 compliant. Moodlerooms collaborates with California State University’s compliance office to ensure it remains that way.

joule has standard accessibility tests available on every page. These checks run the W3C's Validator application to check for strict XHTML compliance, as well as the common ""Cynthia Says"" validation from Hi Software for both Section 508 and Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) compliance. Other tests can be added to also validate user-generated content in joule pages. "







The repository supports IEEE LOM and metadata application profiles such as, Dublin Core, Cancore, and custom profiles.

The repository supports IEEE LOM and metadata application profiles such as, Dublin Core, Cancore, and custom profiles.

For any content in the repository, users can view reports displaying every course in the system that is currently using the selected item.

Through its integration with award-winning digital repository, EQUELLA, joule supports sharing content across course and institution boundaries. The system provides a central content repository where course content files can be stored and accessed by other instructors. Instructors can designate their files to be private or publicly accessible. Content files can also be shared with specific groups or users as well as individuals outside of the system. Instructors can create links to content files in the central content repository so that changes made to the linked content are automatically displayed in their courses. Tools are available to enable version tracking and linking to specific versions as well as the creation and management of workflows for collaborative content creation and review. Instructors can also rate and tag content to ensure they're using the highest quality content available. Organizations can also share content between federated repositories -- i.e. incorporate content from the Library of Congress's digital repository.

Desire2Learn Learning Repository tightly integrates with Desire2Learn Learning Environment to provide a central content/learning object repository where learning objects can be stored and reused by users in the system. By utilizing user roles and management tool in Learning Environment, different permission settings can be applied to multiple repositories. Learning Objects (i.e. assets, topics, modules, and course) can be published to the Learning Repository using industry metadata standards including IEEE LOM, Dublin Core, GEM and CanCore. Searching within the Repository can be done through Basic Search, Advance Search and Local Browsing of custom taxon schemas. Local browing is an alternative to searching for key words and titles (or any other fields defined in metadata), users can also search by browsing through classification and taxonomy. Moreover, both harvesting and federated searching is supported which allows users to search in external repository search as MERLOT. When desired learning objects are found, it can be dynamically or statically linked to the repository, retrieved or exported in IMS format.



The system provides course design wizards that provide step-by-step guides that take faculty and course designers through the completion of common course tasks, such as setting up the course homepage, syllabus, organizer pages, content modules, discussion.






Courses can be backed up and repurposed (with or without content) when creating additional courses. Conduit automates course rollover from templates by automatically creating courses from a master template. Templates without content can be used to provide a shell that can help instructors create courses.

Course templates containing either layout or content can be created at any level above the specific section level. Instructors can create announcements, calendar entries, discussions, links, syllabus, course descriptions and other course content using templates that include a HTML editor (a.k.a. WYSIWYG content editor), or upload and choose content from the system-wide content library. Instructors can create new content templates. Instructors can incorporate course functions into specific course templates.











The system can support multiple institutions, departments, schools or other organizational divisions on an individual server setup. Each unit can be separately branded. Distinct designs can also be applied at both the course and specific section level. The user can customize the appearance of a course by changing the order and name of menu items and the location and width of the navigation bar. Custom tools can be created and quickly added and removed from course or student home pages. Students can customize the sounds, colors, font sizes, and layout of the tools within the interface. Administrators can change the availability, order and name of menu items. Depending on user’s role and permission, the user has access to certain tools/features in the learning environment. Users can choose any page as the first page that is viewed when the content tool is accessed.The instructor can view any feedback that was left for content topics and review both detailed and summary information. Multiple modules or topics could be selected and their properties could be edited at once. Users can choose any page as the first page of the content area.

joule provides a sleek appearance, dashboard, and flexible design and layout options. Organizations have the capability to customize pre-existing themes or develop completely unique themes that are specific to their program. Administrators can upload logos, change header and footer colors and update font styles with simple menu selections. Organizations with strict branding guidelines can enter HTML color codes to ensure an exact match. Students can customize their own view of the learning management platform by selecting from pre-determined themes. Instructors can also modify layout and navigation of their courses into different formats.

AICC AICCIMS Content Packaging 1.1.3 IMS Content Packaging 1.1.3IMS Content Packaging 1.1.4 IMS Content Packaging 1.1.4IMS QTI 1.2.1 IMS QTI 1.2.1IMS QTI 2.0 IMS Enterprise 1.1IMS Enterprise 1.1 SCORM 1.2IMS Metadata 1.2.2 SCORM 1.3IMS Metadata 1.3SCORM 1.2

SCORM 1.3







Desire2Learn also has Desire2Learn QuickLinks which allows a user to quickly link to resources (e.g. a quiz, assignment, form, survey, etc.) from all tools and to turn them into topics within the course. Instructors can create sequences using conditional release based on a user’s past performance and accomplishment. Desire2Learn offers course design services to assist organizations in creating their course material.

Instructors can create both linear and nonlinear learning sequences using joule's Lesson module, activity locking capabilities and flexible course layout options. Organizations can automate creation of courses with content from templates. Moodlerooms can offer training on instructional design and creating a collaborative learning environment. Moodlerooms can also offer course design services for a fee to help instructors create their courses.

joule also support IMS Common Cartridge and is currently in development to support IMS Enterprise Web Services, IMS Learning Design and SCORM 2004 (currently partially supported).

Hardware/SoftwareFirefox 3.5 (Windows and Mac OS X)Firefox 3.0 (Windows and Mac OS X)Firefox 2 (Windows and Mac OS X)Internet Explorer 8 (Windows)Internet Explorer 7 (Windows)Internet Explorer 6 (Windows)Chrome (Investigation)Safari 4.0 (Investigation)Safari 3.1 (Mac OS X)

The system supports MS SQL Server. The system supports MySQL.

A Windows version is available.


The competencies tool support IMS RDCEO. Desire2Learn also support more recent versions of IMS Enterprise. For metadata, Desire2Learn supports IEEE LOM, Dublin Core, GEM and CanCore. The system includes a tool to import courses from other learning platforms into Desire2Learn. Learning Environment also supports IMS Common Cartridge 1.0 for import packages, and IMS Basic Learning Tools Interoperability for integration with external systems.

joule is supported by all major Web browsers including IE 6 or higher, Mozilla Firefox (all versions) and Safari 3 or higher. Most additional Web browsers almost support joule.

The application requires only one database and can coexist with tables from other applications.

The application requires only one database and can coexist with tables from other applications.

Located in the US, Canada (3 offices with headquarters in Kitchener-Waterloo), Australia, and the UK. Desire2Learn was founded in 1999. It employs over 185 people and is privately held.

Moodlerooms, Inc., is one of the largest Moodle partners in the world with approximately 500 clients worldwide. Founded in 2005, Moodlerooms provides online learning management solutions based on open-source Moodle to K-12 schools, community colleges, universities, corporations, and non-profit and government agencies. With its all-inclusive learning management platform, enterprise hosting and dedicated support, Moodlerooms offers open, connected and sustainable solutions that evolve around its clients.

There is an initial startup fee. The license fees are typically based on either an FTE or per user/enrollment depending on the client requirements.

Moodlerooms does not charge for license fees but rather for actual usage of storage, bandwidth and number of active enrollments.

The software is distributed under one of the OSI-approved licenses.

There are numerous other features and functionality provided by Desire2Learn, including (but not limited to) a full survey tool, advanced data warehouse, competency and learning objectives, mobile offerings, integrations with 3rd party tools, advanced blogging, conversion tools to streamline migrations from other systems, ePortfolio, web services, robust learning object repository, and advanced in-line HTML editor. For more information, to contact Desire2Learn, or for online virtual demonstrations, visit http://www.desire2learn.com/ For clients looking for a full-featured and flexible learning management system and suite of related offerings, Learning Environment provides powerful and flexible course management, communication/collaboration, measurement/assessment, and administration tools to support your e-Learning vision, with a focus on usability, performance, accessibility, and scalability. Learning Environment is pedagogy-independent and can be incorporated into any program or course, in any vertical (higher education, K-12, corporate, healthcare, etc.), for any delivery method (fully online, in-class, hybrid).

Moodlerooms can provide customization services to develop or test additional capabilities or integrations that help meet the unique needs of each organization. Training is also available to help educators unlock the potential of their platform. Included with joule is Moodlerooms' customer-centric administrator IT help desk support and proven, professional installation, ongoing maintenance, free version upgrades of joule's Moodle core, and needs-based implementation process. Organizations that desire onsite hosting can opt for Moodlerooms' appliance model hosting option, for which Moodlerooms, in partnership with Dell, professionally installs and supports a turnkey hosting configuration within the organization's own data center.

There are numerous other features and functionality provided by Desire2Learn, including (but not limited to) a full survey tool, advanced data warehouse, competency and learning objectives, mobile offerings, integrations with 3rd party tools, advanced blogging, conversion tools to streamline migrations from other systems, ePortfolio, web services, robust learning object repository, and advanced in-line HTML editor. For more information, to contact Desire2Learn, or for online virtual demonstrations, visit http://www.desire2learn.com/ For clients looking for a full-featured and flexible learning management system and suite of related offerings, Learning Environment provides powerful and flexible course management, communication/collaboration, measurement/assessment, and administration tools to support your e-Learning vision, with a focus on usability, performance, accessibility, and scalability. Learning Environment is pedagogy-independent and can be incorporated into any program or course, in any vertical (higher education, K-12, corporate, healthcare, etc.), for any delivery method (fully online, in-class, hybrid).

Moodlerooms can provide customization services to develop or test additional capabilities or integrations that help meet the unique needs of each organization. Training is also available to help educators unlock the potential of their platform. Included with joule is Moodlerooms' customer-centric administrator IT help desk support and proven, professional installation, ongoing maintenance, free version upgrades of joule's Moodle core, and needs-based implementation process. Organizations that desire onsite hosting can opt for Moodlerooms' appliance model hosting option, for which Moodlerooms, in partnership with Dell, professionally installs and supports a turnkey hosting configuration within the organization's own data center.

LMS Evaluation Rubrics* Indicates Mandatory Requirements

Moodle 0 Does not meet requirements 1 Meets Requirements 2 Exceeds Requirements Students

Support for student interactivities 2 2 2 0 1 2Section Total 2 2 2

Ease of Use

User friendly interface 1 1 1 0 1 2

1 1 1 0 1 2

Instructional design tools included 1 1 1 0 1 2

Platform Independence 1 1 1 0 1 2Section Total 4 4 4

Cost

The cost is within the organization’s budget* 2 0 0 0 1 2Section Total 2 0 0

Requirements Metrics \ LMS Software

Blackboard WebCT\Vista

Microsoft LMS

Students can view thematerial provided, butcannot modify it outside the system.

Students can use thematerial provided withinthe LMS, but have certainrestrictions to modify thematerial within the system.

Students can fullyengage in activitieswith the LMS,modifying the materialprovided.

The interface is somewhat 'clunky' and presents obstacles to use

The interface is user friendly for both students and faculty

considered the best in the market

User friendly course design and administration interface

The interface is somewhat 'clunky' and presents obstacles to use

The LMS system is easy to learn in order to create the course and to manage the system (designers and administrators).

considered the best in the market

The course cannot be designed without going leveraging from other supporting technologies

The LMS system includes basic instructional design tools.

The LMS system includes advanced instructional design tools.

The system is not browser independent and the server cannot be deployed on a Windows server or requires a database other than MS SQL Server.

The system is browser independent and the server can be setup on a Windows Server running IIS and MS SQL Server database.

The system can be accessed through a number of different devices (platform independent including mobile devices (smartphones, etc))?Browser independent?

The total cost including server software, user licences, and annual maintenance is over $50K

The total cost including server software, user licences, and annual maintenance is betweed $50 and $70K

The total cost including server software, user licences, and annual maintenance is under $50K

Teaching & Learning

Student enrollment functionality 1 1 1 0 no support 1 2

Assessment Capabilities 1 1 1 no support

assigment management 1 1 1 no supportSection Total 3 3 3

Interactivity

1 1 1 0 1 2Section Total 1 1 1

Organizational Issues

1 1 1 0 1 2

Technical support requirements 1 0 0Section Total 2 1 1

Novelty

Newness of technology and company 2 2 2 0 1 2

Reliability 1 1 1

adequate support for student enrollment procedurues

best in market support for student enrollment procedures

The system supports the assessment and feedback of students

Students are able to post assignments

studnets are able to post assignments, integrated grade book and marking facilities

Supports a high degree of Interactivity and knowledge sharing across CoP members

rudimentary interactivity limited to discussion forum and file repository

threaded discussion board, integrated wiki environment, live whiteboard capabilities to support group discussion, file repository, integrated blog

All of the 'meets requirements' plus integrated support for Web 2.0 e.g. voice & video software, external E-portfolios

The system meets the organization’s technical platform standards and requirements.*

the system requires a new server implementation

the system can be setup on existing application servers but requires some additional supporting software that may require additional testing before being accepted and implemented

the system can be setup on existing application servers with no additional software other than the LMS application

The IT staff require additional training to be able to provide a basic level of support

The IT staff has the skills to provide basic support but require some time to learn the product

The system requires little to no IT support

the software and/or software company is new to market (less than two years)

The software and company have a proven track record > 3 years

The software and company have a proven track record > 5 years

The system has no reliability metrics

The product is built on a proven, scalable system architecture > 90% uptime

The product is built on a proven, scalable system architecture > 99% uptime

Section Total 3 3 3Speed

Time to implement server 1 0 0 0 1 2

Time to implement course 1 1 1

Bandwidth requirements 1 1 1Section Total 3 2 2

Product Grand Total 18 16 16

Installation time dependent heavily on IT Support staff

limited assistance required by IT support staff

server setup can be done in less than 4 hours with no assistance from IT support

Installation time dependent heavily on IT Support staff

limited assistance required by IT support staff

Market leader in terms of course implementation time verified through case studies or published benchmarks

The bandwidth required exceeds organizational capabilities

The bandwidth required is within organizational capabilities

market leader in terms of processing speed. Leverages speed enhancing technologies, capable of streaming video

October November DecemberWk 1 Wk 2 Wk 3 Wk 4 Wk 5 Wk 6 Wk 7 Wk 8 Wk 9 Wk 10

Activity 1 Server Setup2 Requirements Validation3 Course Authoring & Design4 Educatinal & Web Design 5 Development 6 Testing, Rework7 Evaluation

Notes about schedule John's feedback: build new course - 60 FTE includes 40 FTE course authoring and 20 FTE for educational design and web design components 480 hours for 3 credit undergrad course.

This timeline is to build a prototype course that is functional for 2 - 1 day seminar equivalent courses and for training that has never been defined before based on the online interaction across members of the CoP

DecemberWk 11 Wk 12

John's feedback: build new course - 60 FTE includes 40 FTE course authoring and 20 FTE for educational design and web design components

This timeline is to build a prototype course that is functional for 2 - 1 day seminar equivalent courses and for training that has never been defined before based on the online interaction across members of the CoP

FTE full duration content developer Full duration but 1/2 timePM\Course Designer full duration Full duration but half time IT Support 3 weeks at 25% remainder at 5%

Software free (confirm this at the Moodle site)

IT Support sts up the Moodle server on the existing application server and manages security and access to new users Course designer sets up his own development workstation The actual implementation and course delivery would be estimated and included within the MMR Project Plan

2400012000

480040800

IT Support sts up the Moodle server on the existing application server and manages security and access to new users

The actual implementation and course delivery would be estimated and included within the MMR Project Plan

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