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Learning Management System (LMS) Review

Our current LMS, WebCT CE 4.1, is due for review.

Latest News:
June 2008
The University's requirements for a new service is being finalised.

Why change?

Our current LMS is WebCT CE 4.1. It will continue to be available and supported throughout 2008 and 2009. WebCT has been a fantastically useful and stable product at ANU since 2001. It has suited our purposes well and its use has grown dramatically.

Over time however the user community has changed. Students have higher expectations of web sites and content, and teaching staff have greater pressures on them to make more use of the web as part of their processes. Newer platforms on the market now provide much richer and more flexible ways to deliver education, and integrate better with the University's many back-end systems.

So it is time to review our LMS.

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The process for selecting a new Learning Management System

The Director of ICT Environments, Dr Markus Buchhorn, has been taking advice throughout 2007 and 2008 from staff and students about the University’s needs, through individual and group meetings across the University, emailed comments, phonecalls, etc. and more formally via the Academic Systems Assurance Advisory Committee and various College Education and Information Committees. A list of requirements was drawn up and circulated for further comment in 2007. This was sent out to the industry as a Request for Information (RFI) in early 2008. The responses were then evaluated to see what the market might be able to offer.

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Timeframe for making the change

It is important that any new system is introduced alongside the old, to allow time for training and familiarity with the new system and to transfer learning materials from the old system to the new one. The process for purchasing a new LMS is now underway. The new system ideally should be fully functional by Semester 2, 2009. Areas will adopt the new system in ways which best suit their own needs and timeframes.

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Recent News:
June 2008
Evaluation panel set up, requirements being finalised for Request-for-Proposals (RFP)

Feb 2008
RFI sent to potential vendors, responses evaluated.

Sep 2007
Initial list of requirements distributed for comment

Throughout 2007
Consultation re requirements with individuals and groups

To provide any feedback please email feedback@information.anu.edu.au and we will get back to you as quickly as possible.