Project Vista Kick-Off
September 12, 2005
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, CHICO
WELCOME
Thanks for coming!
 What’s this “Project Vista” all about?
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Moving Chico to an Enterprise LMS
LMS Strategic Review (www/tlp/LMS2)
Overview of today
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Current Status of Chico’s LMS
Future Vision of Chico’s LMS
Project Vista Specifics
CURRENT LMS STATUS at CSU Chico
WebCT CAMPUS EDITION (version 4.1)
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Each course is self-contained
Individual faculty
Supporting Campus Communities
No Reporting in Campus Edition  WALRUS
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WebCT Activity Log Reporting & Utilization Statistics
FUTURE ENTERPRISE LMS at CSU Chico
WebCT Vista (version 4.0)
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All faculty (1,000) and students (16,000)
using WebCT weekly, if not daily
Reporting Capabilities
Supports Institutional hierarchy
Ease of use – Contemporary Web Interface
WALRUS Summary WebCT Statistics
WebCT Growth
13,362 Students (Est.)
1400
1,329 Sections
1200
1000
Faculty Using
WebCT
Students Using
WebCT (10s)
Course Sections
Using WebCT
800
600
400
200
0
639 Faculty
Spring Fall Spring Fall Spring
2003 2003 2004 2004 2005
WALRUS Course Section View
Campus Edition Homepage & Add Tools
Vista Homepage & Add Tools
Campus Edition File Manager
Vista File Manager
Campus Edition Gradebook
Vista Gradebook
Vista –
new
roles
Vista
structure
OLD & NEW ARCHITECTURE
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Campus Edition – Only One Server!
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Campus Edition not designed to be enterprise
Flat-file database, Perl scripts, no fail-over,
corruption
Backup millions of small files
Vista
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Relational dbase, Java
Oracle backups and recovery
Load balanced
Clustered servers, scalable
WebCT Vista Architecture*
* Recommended hardware platforms
VISION FOR PROJECT VISTA
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Provide leading academic technology for the
university’s core mission of teaching and learning
Offer faculty and students rich tools for
communication, collaboration, assessment and
workflow management
Support important teaching and learning tools and
best practices, including the use and integration of
content repositories, streaming and multimedia
technologies, e-portfolios, library systems, as well as
plagiarism detection and content development tools
Deliver high levels of availability (24 x 7), reliability,
and performance
Meet demands for future growth (scalable,
sustainable)
WHAT DEFINES SUCCESS?
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Stable, Integrated, Enterprise System
Course Content Migration
Least impact on faculty and students
Leverage more of the new system’s
features and capabilities
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Faculty & Students
Dept. & Colleges
University-wide
MILESTONES
Fall 2005
 Intersession 2006
 Spring 2006
 Summer 2006
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Fall 2006
 Spring 2007
 Summer 2007
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– Installation & Training
– Train & Prep for Pilots
– Run Pilots, Integrate
– Migrate courses,
Test integration
– ½ courses in Vista
– all courses in Vista
– Clean-up & wrap up
TIMELINE
Spring 2005
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LMS Strategic Review
Purchased Vista License
Purchased computers for training lab
Summer 2005
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Purchased Vista Hardware
Attended WebCT Conference in SF
TIMELINE
Fall 2005
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Consulting Services
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Pre-, Install, Post- installation of Dev. and Prod.
Systems
Training (Admin. and User Interface)
Develop Migration Processes
Plan Integrations
Develop Training
Pick Pilot Courses/Faculty
Set-up faculty training lab
TIMELINE
Intersession 2006
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Migrate Pilot Courses
Train Faculty leading Pilots
Fine Tune System for Spring Pilots
Manual Enrollment
TIMELINE
Spring 2006
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Run Pilot Courses
Do integrations with CMS/Portal/LDAP/etc.
Refine training/migration/implementation
Meet with depts./colleges to prep for
migration either Spring or Summer
Begin some training and course migrations
for Fall
TIMELINE
Summer 2006
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Run Summer Sessions with Enterprise Integration
Training
Migration
Support
TIMELINE
Fall 2006
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Enterprise Integration Running
Half of all WebCT Courses running on
Vista Production System
Training
Migration
Support
TIMELINE
Spring 2007
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All WebCT Courses on Vista Production
System
Summer 2007
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Complete any left-over migrations
Move towards retiring Campus Edition
ROLES FOR ATEC
Bill Evans – Project Manager
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Lead technical implementation & migration
Work with INF personnel and WebCT
See that Enterprise integrations achieved
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Portal, PeopleSoft, SSL/LDAP, Library,
Arrange meetings to discuss technical & support
issues (STCP, Computing Services, etc.)
Implement and keep project moving down the
timeline/pipeline
Run meetings that keep personnel on track with a
feedback loop
ROLES FOR ATEC
Laura Sederberg – Program Manager
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Lead departmental and program side of planning, training
migration, & support
Arrange departmental meetings to discuss faculty
pedagogical and dept. goals & issues
Train new ITCs and students
Contact other universities to learn from their Vista
transition
Create/modify and/or beta test Vista 4.0 training materials
for Chico, schedule workshops
Support faculty after training and migration
Create/modify TLP web site for supporting Vista 4.0
Work with Vicky and other IMC staff for creating
communication and marketing materials for campus
Set up and manage Faculty Training Lab
ROLES NEEDED FROM INF STAFF
Directors will work with their staff on planning
and timing support for Vista
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Computing operations & networking support
DBA support
PeopleSoft-WebCT-Portal integration
User Support Services to support faculty and
students
ROLES NEEDED FROM CAMPUS
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Enrollment Management
Deans and Dept. Chairs
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Accreditation and Program Assessment
AURA Committee
Faculty (pilots, mentors, committees)
Students
WHAT’S NEXT?