LMS Comparison across Ontario Universities

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	in house developed	3	LAMP (new) + IIS/Coldfusion (legacy)	MySQL Cluster	MS SQL 2003	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.
University of Toronto	Linda Murphy-Boyer	BlackBoard	7.2			Sep-09	approx 5000	Satisfied	Unlikely		After much debate and kerfuffle we have now achieved buy-in from most of our instructors. In addition we have spent much time and many resources developing training materials and custom building block modules for grouping blogging and grafting courses. That said in my opinion it would be very unlikely that we would choose another system when our licence comes due next year.
University of Waterloo	Jane Holbrook	Angel	7.2	Windows	Oracle	2010	2400	Satisfied	Unsure		We are currently reviewing our complete Online Learning Environment. This is in preparation for making our decision regarding our LMS renewal in 2010 and also to review other learning technologies that are used separately from the current LMS.
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	Alain Erdmer	WebCT Vista	Release (4.2.3) [14.0.7.37]	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.
Brock University	Matt Clare	Sakai - WebCT CE 6	WebCT CE 6.2, Sakai 2.5	Linux Frontends, WebCT: MS Database - Sakai: Linux MySQL	WebCT: MS SQL - Sakai: MySQL	WebCT: July 31st 2009	1600	WebCT: Unsatisfied - Sakai: Satisfied	Likely	Sakai - we're running Sakai in parallel this year and will only be running Sakai after WebCT: July 31st 2009 - more info at http://www.brocku.ca/ctlet/sakai	Results from our Pilot of Sakai and comparison of Sakai, Moodle and WebCT: http://www.brocku.ca/ctlet/sakai/pilot
Queen's University	Bobbi A. Kerlin	WebCT 4	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	Richard Gorrie	Desire2Learn; WebCT 8	CE 8.0.1	Linux	Oracle	Dec-08	1500	Dissatisfied	Likely	Currently we use D2L for our distance and continuing ed courses. As of Fall 2009 we hope to use D2L for all U of G courses migrating from Blackboard CE.
UOIT	Bill Muirhead	WebCT Vista			Oracle	2010	allcourses	Dissatisfied	Likely	Moodle
University of Waterloo	Andrea Chappell	Angel	7.2	Windows	SQL	May-10	2400	Satisfied	Unsure	We are currently in the midst of a review of the online learning environment needs of the University of Waterloo. This review has been initiated primarily as a matter of good practice in anticipation of the expiration of our Angel license in May 2010 as opposed to being prompted by a dissatisfaction with our current product.	While we are generally satisfied with our current product, there are areas of concern; we also need to gauge the broader user community's opinion, and review other options.
Wilfrid Laurier University	Sandy Hughes	WebCT 6	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.
Ryerson University	Matt Justice	BlackBoard	7.3		Oracle		2000	Undecided	Unlikely
University of Western Ontario	Jeff Longland	WebCT Vista	4.2.3 but soon 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	Darrel Laurendeau	Sakai	4.6.2	web-based	Oracle	open source n/a	2000	Satisfied	Likely
Laurentian University	Johanne Rioux	WebCT 4	4.1	Windows 2003	MSSQL 2005	30-Apr-09	1400	Satisfied	Unsure		New at the position...
Nipissing University	Mary Toye	WebCT 6	6.2.3	Windows	SQL			Undecided	Unlikely		Just in the process of getting acquainted with this LMS, and it's too early to say much else.
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
Institution	Contact Person	LMS Product	Version Number	Server OS	Database	License Expiry	Active Courses	Satisfaction	Likely to Change	If Change to What	comments