Project Vista Kick-Off
November 16, 2005
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, CHICO
Welcome!
What’s this “Project Vista” all about?
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Moving Chico to an Enterprise LMS
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Next Generation Online Learning
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Helping faculty and departments manage
courses and content
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Improving students’ learning experiences
Current LMS Status at CSU Chico
WebCT Campus Edition Version 4.1
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Lots of clicks
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Each course is self-contained
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Difficult to collaborate
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Difficult to manage content
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Cumbersome gradebook
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
Future Enterprise LMS
WebCT Vista Version 4.0
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All faculty (1,000) and students (16,000)
using WebCT
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Reporting capabilities
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Supports institutional hierarchy
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Ease of use – contemporary Web interface
Vision for Project Vista
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Provide leading academic technology for the
university’s core mission of teaching and learning
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Offer faculty and students rich tools for
communication, collaboration, assessment and
workflow management
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Support important teaching and learning tools
and best practices, including the use and
integration of content repositories, streaming and
multimedia technologies
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Meet demands for future growth (scalable,
sustainable)
What Defines Success?
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Stable, Integrated, Enterprise System
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Course Content Migration
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Least impact on faculty and students
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Leverage more of the new system’s features
and capabilities
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Faculty & Students
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Department & Colleges
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University-wide
What do YOU want to know
about Vista?
Campus Edition myWebCT
Vista myWebCT
Campus Edition Homepage
Vista Homepage
Campus Edition File Manager
Vista File Manager
Campus Edition Gradebook
Vista Gradebook
Student Performance Report
From Vista Gradebook
Vista Migration Message Log
Vista Selective Release
Vista organizational structure & levels
WebCT Vista Server
Domain level = server
Institution level = university
Division level = college
CSU, Chico
College of Natural Sciences
Group level = department
Courses = master course
Sections = individual class
Chemistry
CHEM 100
Physics
CHEM 107
01
02
01
02
03
04
03
04
05
06
Vista roles at organization levels
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Admin
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Help Desk
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Designer
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Instructor
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Teaching Assistant
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Student
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Auditor
These roles are available at
the many organizational
levels of domain, institution,
division, group, course and
section.
Targets & Milestones
Fall 2005 – Installation & Training
 Intersession 2006 – Train & develop pilots
 Spring 2006 – Run Pilots; Integration
 Summer 2006 – Migrate courses, test
integration
 Fall 2006 – half courses in Vista
 Spring 2007 – all courses in Vista
 Summer 2007 – Clean-up & wrap up
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Timeline
Fall 2005
 Vista
Installed
 Staff
Training
 Develop
Migration Processes
 Develop
Faculty Training
 Plan
Spring Pilot
Pilot Group
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Bill Bergman, Kinesiology
Becky Damazo, Nursing
Cris Guenter, Education
Jeff Jiang, Recreation
Lorraine Gardiner, Accounting & MIS
Terry Miller-Herringer, Psychology
Rita Mulholland, Special Ed.
Terry Noel, Management
Michael Spiess, Agriculture
Timeline
Intersession 2006
 Migrate
 Train
Pilot Courses
Pilot Faculty Group
 Develop
support materials
Timeline
Spring 2006
 10
Pilot Courses
 Integrate
 Refine
with CMS / Portal / LDAP, etc.
training, migration and support
 Meet
with depts./colleges to prep for migration
either Spring or Summer
 Begin
departmental training and course
migrations
Timeline
Summer 2006
 Summer
Pilot
 Training
 Migration
 Support
Timeline
Fall 2006
 Vista
 Half
in Full Production
of WebCT Courses migrated
 Training,
Migration, & Support
Timeline
Spring 2007
 All
WebCT Courses on Vista Production
System
Summer 2007
 Complete
 Retire
any remaining migrations
Campus Edition
Campus Involvement
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Enrollment Management
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Deans and Dept. Chairs
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Accreditation and Program Assessment
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AURA Committee
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Faculty
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Students
Next Steps
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Meet with Deans to discuss Vista
capabilities college-wide (by March 1)
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Meet with Departments to discuss
training/migration of programs/options
(March – July)
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Customize training as needed
CSU, Chico
Vista Web site
www.csuchico.edu/tlp/vista