Presented by Liesel Knaack & Michael Paskevicius from the Centre for Innovation and Excellence in Learning at Vancouver Island University. Delivered at the British Columbia Desire2Learn Regional User Forum November 16, 2012 at BCIT.

1. Changing Learning Management
Systems and.....
Changing The Way We Teach & Learn
Liesel Knaack & Michael Paskevicius
Centre for Innovation and Excellence in Learning

2. How many are from teaching and learning
centres?
How many are also new to D2L?
Who is using the software as a service option?
How many have been through the
implementation process?

3. VIU eLearning Landscape
344 faculty using LMS (44%)
~ 1500 Moodle courses
Mainly web-enhanced LMS use
~ 10,000 Student accounts
4 Campus locations

4. 9 instances of Moodle each with different code-base
Too many with high level administrative access
Hosted at VIU on 2 older servers reaching capacity and life-span
No mirrored servers or load balancers
No connectivity to the Student Registration System
500 GB of mainly 'storage depots’
Manual creation of courses/students

5. Milestones 2012
February - Made decision to switch
March - Sign contract with D2L
April - Admin Level training
May - Implement LE 10.0 + Tool Training
June - 22 2 hour workshops for 80 faculty
July - Implement SIS integration
August - Moodle converter V1
September - 150 courses launched
October - Invited 50 more faculty to join
November - New training approach
December - Drop in Days

6. Moodle Conversion
Manual rebuild of 30 courses for Fall
2012 (June & July)
Convert and then edit of 80 courses
for Fall 2012 (August)
SRS course copying and activating
(for over 170 courses in total)
Currently converting 150 courses for
January 2013
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Phase 3 includes 1200 more

7. Training
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8. Components: Learning Environment & ePortfolio
Authentication – LDAP
Full email configuration for faculty and
students

9. Complexity of the DOME
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Roles and permissions
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10. Student Registration System Integration
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11. Integrating Educational Technology Services
Desire2Learn offers a suite of tools for elearning built around course
groupings drawn from the student information system.
WordPress is a free and open source DIY blogging tool and content
management system which includes features such as a well
developed plug-in architecture and template system.
Kaltura is a video publishing and curation system which allow users
to submit video for consumption on the web and on mobile devices.
Collaborate provides an online synchronous audio and visual meeting
environment allowing for questions, whiteboarding capabilities,
desktop and application sharing, breakout rooms, live chat and
polling.

12. D2L Kaltura Integration
Open Issues:
• Feedback for uploaders after contributing
• Persistent quality issues with webcam recording
• Placement of webcam recording option with D2L
(Student deposit video in dropbox?)

13. Blackboard Collaborate Integration
Week 3: Online Class
Discussion

14. Wordpress Blogging Network
http://wordpress.viu.ca/

15. D2L Implementation Project Blog
http://wordpress.viu.ca/d2lproject/

16. CIEL Community Blog
http://wordpress.viu.ca/edtechdev/

17. Integrating open educational resources
http://openlearn.open.ac.uk/mod/oucontent/view.php?id=397952&section=1.1
http://solr.bccampus.ca:8001/bcc/items/ddb1212b-5133-46ef-
b0a0-ad7b59305d3f/1/?.hb=true

18. Google Analytics
Site visits tracking
• GA on D2L
home page
• GA on course
home pages
Metric of most
active course sites

19. Google Analytics
Browser profiles of
visitors
Mobile access
overview

20. Google Analytics Real Time

21. Thank you!
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