LMS Comparison across Ontario Universities
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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, |
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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: | ||||||||||
| 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 | WebCT Vista | Oracle | 2010 | allcourses | Dissatisfied | Likely | Moodle | ||||||||||||
| 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 |
