Post on 17-Aug-2015
Common Solutions Group
Wednesday, September 18, 2013
32,000 Students2,100 Faculty1,200 Graduate Student Teachers
Selection Criteria
1. Experience, Background, and Qualifications
2. Features and Usability3. LMS Administration4. Product Environment5. Product Roadmap6. Financial
WebCT CE 8
D2L Pilot Spring 2011
D2L Opt-In Fall 2011
D2L Default Spring 2012
D2L All-In Fall 2012
Path to D2L
Growth of Courses in D2L
Sum '11 Fall '11 Spring '12
Sum '12 Fall '12 Spring '13
Sum '13 Fall '130
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Tool Usage in D2L
1. Content2. Homepages3. Discussion4. Quizzes5. DropBox6. Grades7. Surveys8. Email9. Locker10. News
And then…
Upgraded to D2L Learning Environment 10.1
January 2nd-3rd Upgraded to D2L Learning Environment 10.1
January 14Start of Spring Semester
January 162 hour outage
January 171 hour intermittent performance and access issues
January 171 hour intermittent performance and access issues
January 211 hour intermittent performance
January 29 – February 161 hour outage
What happened?
• Failure during migrating CU-Boulder to new file storage system
Managing the Storm
• Transparency and communication was key• Accessed the best past forward with D2L
Informing the
Decision
Faculty OLE Review
Committee
Audit and On-Site Visit to D2L
Interviews with Self-Hosting
Schools Determine Hardware
Requirements for Self-Hosting
Assess Risks of Self-Hosting vs Continuing to Host with D2L
We’re staying with D2L…with the following caveats
• Requiring D2L to: – Consider risk and impact when making changes– Notify us of changes that have the potential of
impacting CU-Boulder– Give CU-Boulder a choice of when to scheduled
changes
What’s next?
• Department guidance should D2L not be available in the future
• Framework for evaluating 3rd Party Integrations
Discussion and Questions…