REDWOODS COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT
Meeting of the Learning Management System Task Force
April 18, 2014 10:00-11:00 am
HU 115
NOTES
LMS Task Force Goal
The Learning Management System (LMS) Task Force was established in order to determine which
learning management system will most effectively and sustainably support all modalities (face-to-face,
hybrid and online) of teaching and learning at College of the Redwoods.
1. Call to Order
2. Review Summary Notes if Available
Notes will be posted on Wendy’s site
3. Reports
3.1 IT Research/LMS presentations
There was a brief discussion of the canvas price quote (3 year contract) Wendy had
spoken to a sales rep about price flexibility (seems to be none). Which led to some
questions about how the different candidates will charge for services.(by total registered
students, online students etc.) We also discussed how inclusion of video creation and
hosting tools would affect the cost benefit picture of the candidates
In response to the faculty survey Black Board was officially add back into the candidate
list and Angelina reported that she was unaware of any technical issue that would prevent
us from considering them. (It was determined that we would try and schedule them the
same day as one of the other vendors over the next three Fridays )
Meetings are set for vendors to visits over the next three Fridays
 D2L (Desire to Learn) – (Webinar) –4/25 - 10:00-1:00
 Moodle – (In person) – 5/2 10:00-1:00
 Canvas (Webinar) – 5/9 – 10:00-1:00(tentative)
4. Discussion Items
4.1 Ask faculty what classes they might be willing to pilot with the new LMS this
summer and fall
We discussed that the faculty survey had a question about interest in Piloting a new LMS
and that we could use it to identify potential candidates.
4.2 How to manage meetings now that LMS presentations are underway?
A detailed discussion of the our schedule over the next four weeks was discussed and it
was decided that we would continue to work after finals week if necessary to compile and
evaluate the information collected during the next three weeks. We will continue to meet
at 9:30 on Fridays before the presentations.
4.3 Communication with stakeholders about process, especially faculty
Wendy’s web sites (Wendy will create a public version of our LMS website with
completed content, documents and links) We will add links to MyCR and notify faculty
how to access this information. In addition we discussed weekly LMS progress
notifications that could go out to faculty.
4.4 How to manage public/finished documents vs. in-progress documents
(See above)
4.4 How to best research/familiarize ourselves with each LMS option (is LMS
presentation alone sufficient?) – Divide by subgroup?
A brief discussion of how to best research the LMS candidates took place. No specific
groups were set but it was agreed that if time permitted it would be a good Idea to
familiarize ourselves with some of the more important capabilities of the LMS
candidates before the demos.
5.1 Finalize matrix and weight matrix criteria incorporating faculty/student survey results
We discussed how we should set the weighting for the matrix and what the difference
between the importance and the x-factor was. It was agreed that we would fill out hard
copies of LMS matrix to set our own weightings for each item and give them to Lisa to
compile. It was also determined acceptable to use decimal places in the x-factor and
importance.
5.2 Finalize rationale for goal/charge
(No Action taken)
5.3 Review matrix short form for stakeholder evaluations of LMS presentations
It was determined that the stakeholder evaluation should be further trimmed down to just
the headings with lots of space for comments and that a method for collecting and
analyzing them should be determined.
5.4 Review LMS matrix for LMS company quotes (See Yuba RFP)
5. Future Agenda items
6.1 Unfinished business from 4/11 meeting
6.2 Modify criteria and weighting after LMS presentation and research
6.3 Apply matrix to LMS, narrow and select an LMS
6.4 Revisit timeline
6.5 Generate formal process report
6. Announcements
7. Adjourn
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