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4-2-2009 UD Update LTC0409
1. University of Delaware Update
Presentation to the LTC – 4-2-2009
Mathieu Plourde, LMS Project Leader/Instructional Designer
IT-User Services
2. Presentation Plan
1. Sakai@UD
I. Metrics
II. LMS Committee
III. FAQ and Documentation Efforts
IV. Project Sites
V. Farewell to WebCT
2. Drupal CMS
3. IT Reorganization
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3. 1. Sakai@UD
• Deployed in full production since September
2008.
• Phasing out WebCT 4.1
• UDLMS project site to follow our progress:
• http://www.udel.edu/udlms/
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4. I. Sakai@UD Metrics
Warning!
The following data is an approximation.
CONTROLLED SELF-SERVICE
Attribution: Jeffrey Beall on Flick.com Attribution: Sean Munson on Flick.com
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5. Fall Course Sites in a
Learning Management System at UD
1400
1200
1000
597
800
Sakai
WebCT
600
837
400 782
663
571
563
508
200
344
215
40
0
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
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6. Spring Course Sites in a
Learning Management System at UD
1200
1000
800
723
Sakai
600
WebCT
797
400 782
676
596
453
200
365 362
219
141
0
2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
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7. Proportion of Course Sites
Fall 2008 Spring 2009
33%
49% WebCT WebCT
51% Sakai Sakai
67%
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8. Unique Faculty Users
• Unique faculty who have created at least one
Sakai course:
Fall 2008 346
Winter 2009 68
Spring 2009 432
Unique (all semesters) ½ Faculty 573
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9. II. LMS Committee
• Original Purpose: Select an LMS
• Current Purpose: Serve as Ambassadors
• Coordinated by IT and the Vice-Provost
• Faculty members from all seven colleges
• IT staff involved with Sakai
• Ambassadors Role
• Gather feedback
Quarterly Meetings
• Pass information around +
• Troubleshoot in their unit Collaboration Space
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11. III. FAQ and Documentation Efforts
Changed the Help home page to
direct users to the Support and
Training site.
Integrated the UD Google search
engine.
Created a list of FAQs. This list is
driven by the number of Help
Center requests.
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12. IV. Sakai@UD Project Sites
• Since February 2009, faculty and staff can create
project sites.
• Same tools, different purposes:
Collaboration
•
File storage
•
Not associated with a course roster
•
Different roles and permissions
•
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13. V. Farewell to WebCT
Attribution: Creativity+ Timothy K Hamilton on Flick.com
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14. Sakai Project Implementation Overview
= Done
Metrics Fall 2008
Metrics Spring 2009 (in progress)
Sakai sites 597 course sites
Sakai sites 723 course sites
Begin full WebCT sites 571 course sites
operational WebCT sites 362 course sites
Target 20% of course sites on Sakai
support for Target 50% of course sites on Sakai
Actual 51% of course sites on Sakai
Sakai Actual 67% of course sites on Sakai
Departmental demos, faculty developing and delivering their courses,
self-help, workshops, individual consultations + WebCT support
FALL ‘08 SPRING ‘09
WINTER ‘09 SUMMER ‘09
Faculty survey
Project sites made
available for Faculty/Staff Sakai track at Summer
Faculty Institute
Project sites made
Deployment of available for students
Sakai 2.6
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15. Sakai Project Implementation Overview
End of Blackboard full operational
support for WebCT 4.1
End of WebCT
support at UD
Faculty developing and delivering their courses, self-help,
Workshops, individual consultations
FALL ‘09 SPRING ‘10
WINTER ‘10 SUMMER ‘10
Metrics Fall 2009 Metrics Spring 2010
Target 80% of course sites on Sakai Target 95% of course sites on Sakai
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16. Categories of Faculty Users
I’m waiting until the next
semester I am teaching.
• Prior WebCT Users:
Migrated all their courses to Sakai.
• Sakai is missing a feature
I had in WebCT!
Migrated some courses to Sakai.
•
Did not migrate anything yet, but intends to do so.
•
Did not migrate, and does not intend to.
• I hope to catch up during
slower times, like Summer.
I’m about to retire, so I don’t need an LMS anymore.
don’t bug me!
I did not know about Show me what is available
WebCT, but Sakai is great!
• Other Users: at UD.
• New to using a LMS.
I don’t need any technology
• New UD Faculty. to teach my course!
• Non-Users. I’m doing just fine with
my own Web 2.0 stuff.
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17. 2. Drupal CMS
• Drupal is being deployed as a centrally-
supported content management
system at UD
• Educational practices have not been
discussed… yet!
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18. Selecting Drupal
• Information Technologies (IT) chaired CMS committee
faculty and staff from UD colleges
•
administrative staff
•
IT staff
•
staff from UD Office of Communication and Marketing (OCM).
•
• Looked at…
• Other Universities
• Commercial CMS products
• Open-source CMS products.
• After a series of focus group meetings, Drupal was
selected!
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19. What is Drupal?
Drupal is…
• A database-driven web application written in PHP.
• An open-source Content Management System (CMS)
freely available under the GPL.
• A community building platform.
• A web development framework. Use Drupal as a
platform to build a broad range of web applications.
-Source: Drupal For Education and E-Learning, Author: Bill Fitzgerald
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20. User Perspective of Drupal Services
Drupal-prod
Drupal-dev
• Limited File system • No file system access
access • Backup nightly
• Backup nightly • DB
• DB • File System
• File System • Content editing,
• User performs modification
development and • Implementation of
Drupal-test
testing tested functionalities
• No user access
• Initial content • Backup nightly
creation (Major • DB
upgrades) • File System
• IT “sandbox” –
testing versions,
updates
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21. Online Resources IT – User Ed
Workshops
Webdev Community
& Consultations
UD Drupal
Documentation
Training & Support Drupal Workouts
Opportunities
IT Help Center
Mini-workshops
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22. Timeline for IT Drupal Services
Drupal Selected: February 2008
•
Preparation: February – November 2008
•
Hire Tina: December 2008
•
“Alpha” Development: December ‘08 – January ’09
•
Steering Committee Formed: February 2009
•
“Beta” Development: February – March 2009
•
First live site: April 2009
•
Basic Support: Summer 2009
•
Full Support: Fall 2009
•
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23. 3. IT Reorganization
• Susan Foster, Leila Lyons, and Lonnie Hearn
retired
• Carl Jacobson appointed CIO and VP-IT
• “Responsibility-based budgeting”
will give colleges more control
• Central services are financed by a tax
• IT must define core services
• Mathieu Plourde appointed LMS Project Leader
• Creation of the ATS
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