LMS Comparison across Ontario Universities

2011-08-21T18:41:40Z

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| Institution || Contact Person || LMS Product || Version Number || Server OS || Database || License Expiry || Active Courses || Satisfaction || Likely to Change || If Change to What || comments ||
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|OCAD||Andrew McAllister||[http://www.instructure.com/ Instructure Canvas] (Pilot 2011-12)||?|| Mac OS X Server, Ruby on Rails, [http://nginx.org/ NginX Server] ||MySQL Cluster || [https://github.com/instructure/canvas-lms/wiki Community-Source] ||More than 1000||TBA|| New for 2011-12 || New for 2011-12 || Just completed a year long e-Learning Strategic Project to evaluate our technologies and overwhelmingly decided on a Canvas pilot. Also implementing [http://corp.kaltura.com/ Kaltura] for video feedback.
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|University of Toronto||Avi Hyman||BlackBoard||9.x||||||?||approx 80,000||Satisfied||Unlikely||||
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|Carleton University||Steve Gormley||WebCT 8||8.0.1||Solaris||Oracle||01-May-09||2000||Satisfied||Likely ||Open source: Moodle, Sakai, Desire2Learn, WebCT NG(?)||
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|University of Ottawa||Michel Marcheterre||Blackboard Vista||Release (8.0.2) [18.0.2.42]||Windows||SQL||30-Apr-09||1516||Satisfied||Likely ||D2L, <s>Angel</s>, NG||
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|Lakehead University||Leslie Malcolm||WebCT 4||CE 4.1||Solaris||SQL||31-Aug-09||500||Satisfied||Unsure||||Although we don't have concrete plans in place to move to a different lms when our current lms licence expires we will be exploring other platforms throughout the upcoming year. Systems we will be investigating are: <s>Angel</s>, <s>ThinkingCap</s>, Blackboard NG and open source platforms. As of Spring 2010 we are offering a few courses on Moodle as an alternative to WebCT.
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|Brock University||Matt Clare||Sakai||Sakai 2.8||Linux Frontends, Database - Sakai: Linux MySQL||MySQL||Never||1700||Sakai: Satisfied||Not Likely||||Results from our Pilot of Sakai and comparison of Sakai, Moodle and WebCT: http://kumu.brocku.ca/sakai/Pilot
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|Queen's University||Bobbi A. Kerlin||WebCT 4, Moodle||CE 4.1 x||Solaris||NA||08-Sep-08||2500||Dissatisfied||Unsure||||
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|Trent University||Mary Jane Pilgrim||WebCT 8||||Linux||SQL||09-Aug||1070||Very satisfied||Unlikely||||
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|University of Guelph||Kyle Mackie||Desire2Learn||HOSTED||HOSTED||HOSTED||May-2014||2000+||Satisfied||not likely ||||
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|UOIT||Bill Muirhead||WebCT Vista||||||Oracle||2010||allcourses||Dissatisfied||Likely ||Moodle||
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|University of Waterloo (updated Apr. 2011)||Andrea Chappell||Angel||7.4 (Apr-10)||Windows||SQL server||May-12||1300||Satisfied||Yes||Chose Desire2Learn, moving over Fall 2011 and Winter 2012 terms.
|We were satisified with ANGEL and after a review in 2008/2009 had planned to stay with it. The sale to Blackboard in May 2009 altered plans. RFI April 2010. RFP early August 2010. Selection April 2011. Project page: http://ist.uwaterloo.ca/projects/lms_selection
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|Wilfrid Laurier University||Sandy Hughes||D2L||9.2 migrating to 9.4||HOSTED||HOSTED||Fall 2011||1500||Satisfied||Unlikely||||
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|Ryerson University||Restiani Andriati||BlackBoard||9.0||Linux 5.4||Oracle||Spring 2011||approx. 2500||Undecided||Unlikely (but open to options)||||
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|University of Western Ontario||Kim Holland||WebCT Vista||8.0.1||Linux application tier|| Solaris database Oracle||||2500||Satisfied||Unsure||Have some concerns about maintenance of the Vista/CE product lines with the upcoming release of Blackboard's Next Generation product. Many bugs and enhancement requests are being targeted for NG, unfortunately NG is missing a good deal of the functionality that we use in Vista. Said functionality is apparently coming in a later release of NG - but until that point we are left with bugs and enhancement requests that are targeted for a release that we cannot use.
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|University of Windsor||Lorie Stolarchuk||Sakai||2.5.3||web-based||Oracle||open source n/a||1250||Satisfied||Likely||||
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|Laurentian University||Johanne Rioux||WebCT 4 migrating to D2L||4.1||Windows 2003||MSSQL 2005||30-Apr-09||1400||Satisfied||Unsure||||New at the position...
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|Nipissing University||Kyle Charron||Blackboard Learn||9.1||Windows||SQL||||||Satisfied||Unsure||||Preparing for Bb NG 10
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|Dominican University College||Francois Demers||in house developed||N/A||Windows||Cold Fusion||N/A since self-built LMS||35||Satisfied||Unlikely||||It's a work in progress, since we do it ourselves. It gives us a lot of flexibility, and it's cheaper.
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|Canadian Defence Academy, Royal Military College||Mathieu Leblond||WebCT 4||4.1||Solaris||Oracle||Jan 2010||90||Satisfied||Likely ||Desire to Learn||our corporate headquarters has already adopted Desire to Learn, and this has influenced our decision to change the LMS.
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|Algoma University||Danny Reid||Moodle||1.9||Linux||SQL||Open source; no license||200||Very satisfied||Unlikely||We get great support even though it's not a commercial product, but we have lots of community support of educational institutions using Moodle basically for free.
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|McMaster University||Leila Bastedo||Moodle; First Class|| WebCT 4|| moving to Vista||WebCT CE 4.1; First Class v.9.1 (Learn Link on campus). WebCT Vista 8||First Class (Windows) WebCT 4.1 (Linux), Blackboard Vista w. Community and Content (Linux, Windows); Vista w. Community Content (SQL); others are proprietary||2000||Undecided||Unsure
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|York University||Rob Finlayson||Moodle||1.9||Ubuntu Linux||MySQL||Open source; no license||More than 1000||Pretty satisfied||Unlikely||||We are pretty self-sufficient but have had great support from Catalyst, a NZ Moodle consultancy
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