project vista kick-off california state university, chico september 12, 2005
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Project Vista Kick-Off Project Vista Kick-Off
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, CHICO
September 12, 2005
WELCOME
Thanks for coming! What’s this “Project Vista” all
about? Moving Chico to an Enterprise LMS LMS Strategic Review (www/tlp/LMS2)
Overview of today 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)
Each course is self-contained Individual faculty Supporting Campus Communities No Reporting in Campus Edition
WALRUS WebCT Activity Log Reporting & Utilization
Statistics
FUTURE ENTERPRISE LMS at CSU Chico
WebCT Vista (version 4.0) 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
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Spring2003
Fall2003
Spring2004
Fall2004
Spring2005
Faculty UsingWebCTStudents UsingWebCT (10s)Course SectionsUsing WebCT
13,362 Students (Est.)
1,329 Sections
639 Faculty
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
Campus Edition – Only One Server! Campus Edition not designed to be
enterprise Flat-file database, Perl scripts, no fail-
over, corruption Backup millions of small files
Vista Relational dbase, Java Oracle backups and recovery Load balanced Clustered servers, scalable
WebCT Vista Architecture*
* Recommended hardware platforms
VISION FOR PROJECT VISTA 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?
Stable, Integrated, Enterprise System Course Content Migration Least impact on faculty and students Leverage more of the new system’s
features and capabilities Faculty & Students Dept. & Colleges University-wide
MILESTONES
Fall 2005 – Installation & Training
Intersession 2006 – Train & Prep for Pilots
Spring 2006 – Run Pilots, Integrate
Summer 2006 – Migrate courses, Test integration
Fall 2006 – ½ courses in Vista
Spring 2007 – all courses in Vista
Summer 2007 – Clean-up & wrap up
TIMELINE
Spring 2005 LMS Strategic Review Purchased Vista License Purchased computers for training
lab
Summer 2005 Purchased Vista Hardware Attended WebCT Conference in SF
TIMELINE
Fall 2005 Consulting Services
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 Migrate Pilot Courses Train Faculty leading Pilots Fine Tune System for Spring Pilots Manual Enrollment
TIMELINE
Spring 2006 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 Run Summer Sessions with Enterprise
Integration Training Migration Support
TIMELINE
Fall 2006 Enterprise Integration Running Half of all WebCT Courses running
on Vista Production System Training Migration Support
TIMELINE
Spring 2007 All WebCT Courses on Vista
Production System
Summer 2007 Complete any left-over migrations Move towards retiring Campus
Edition
ROLES FOR ATEC
Bill Evans – Project Manager Lead technical implementation & migration Work with INF personnel and WebCT See that Enterprise integrations achieved
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 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
Computing operations & networking support
DBA support PeopleSoft-WebCT-Portal integration User Support Services to support
faculty and students
ROLES NEEDED FROM CAMPUS
Enrollment Management Deans and Dept. Chairs
Accreditation and Program Assessment AURA Committee Faculty (pilots, mentors, committees) Students
WHAT’S NEXT?