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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
OCAD Andrew McAllister Instructure Canvas (Pilot 2011-12) ? Mac OS X Server, Ruby on Rails, NginX Server MySQL Cluster 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 Kaltura for video feedback.
University of Toronto Avi Hyman BlackBoard 9.x ? approx 80,000 Satisfied Unlikely
Carleton University Steve Gormley WebCT 8 8.0.1 Solaris Oracle 01-May-09 2000 Satisfied Likely Open source: Moodle, Sakai, Desire2Learn, WebCT NG(?)
University of Ottawa Michel Marcheterre Blackboard Vista Release (8.0.2) [18.0.2.42] Windows SQL 30-Apr-09 1516 Satisfied Likely D2L, Angel, NG
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: Angel, ThinkingCap, Blackboard NG and open source platforms. As of Spring 2010 we are offering a few courses on Moodle as an alternative to WebCT.
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
Queen's University Bobbi A. Kerlin WebCT 4, Moodle CE 4.1 x Solaris NA 08-Sep-08 2500 Dissatisfied Unsure
Trent University Mary Jane Pilgrim WebCT 8 Linux SQL 09-Aug 1070 Very satisfied Unlikely
University of Guelph Kyle Mackie Desire2Learn HOSTED HOSTED HOSTED May-2014 2000+ Satisfied not likely
UOIT Bill Muirhead Blackboard Learn 9.1 Hosted allcourses In Transition
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
Wilfrid Laurier University Sandy Hughes D2L 9.2 migrating to 9.4 HOSTED HOSTED Fall 2011 1500 Satisfied Unlikely
Ryerson University Restiani Andriati BlackBoard 9.0 Linux 5.4 Oracle Spring 2011 approx. 2500 Undecided Unlikely (but open to options)
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.
University of Windsor Lorie Stolarchuk Sakai 2.5.3 web-based Oracle open source n/a 1250 Satisfied Likely
Laurentian University Johanne Rioux D2L 9.0 Hosted Satisfied U - Nipissing University Kyle Charron Blackboard Learn 9.1 Windows SQL Satisfied Unsure Preparing for Bb NG 10
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.
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.
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.
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
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