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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||in house developed||3||LAMP (new) + IIS/Coldfusion (legacy)||MySQL Cluster MS SQL||  Never||More than 1000||Very satisfied||Unsure||We like making our own LMS. It's nice.|| The user interface for a lot of other LMS systems are awful which frequently brings us back to our own system.
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|University of Toronto, OISE||Laurie Harrison||BlackBoard||9.x||||||?||approx 5000||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 2.7||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://www.brocku.ca/ctlet/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||Richard Gorrie||Desire2Learn||CE 8.0.1||Linux||Oracle||Dec-08||1500||Satisfied||not likely ||Use D2L for all U of G courses migrated from Blackboard CE.||
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|UOIT||Bill Muirhead||WebCT Vista||||||Oracle||2010||allcourses||Dissatisfied||Likely ||Moodle||
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|University of Waterloo||Andrea Chappell||Angel||7.3 (7.4 in Apr-10)||Windows||SQL server||May-10||1250||Satisfied||Yes||Unknown, in project to find next LMS.
|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 and we are now (spring 2010) in the midst of a LMS Selection Project. RFI in April 2010. RFP in late May or early June. Project page: http://ist.uwaterloo.ca/projects/lms_selection
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|Wilfrid Laurier University||Sandy Hughes||WebCT 6 migrating to D2L||6.1.2 (moving to 6.2.3)||Windows||Oracle||31-Aug-08||1500||Dissatisfied||Unlikely||We are just renewing our license for two years until August 31|| 2010.  In Fall 08 we will begin a full LMS review therefore the license will allow one year for the review and one year for migration should we move to a new product.  If we need additional time for a migration we will contract with WebCT on an annual basis.
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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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