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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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?