no boss, no support, no timebut we have a Canvas T-shirt!

A University of Mary Washington Success Story

Lisa Ames
LMS Administrator E-Learning Specialist lames@umw.edu

Pam Lowery
Director of Training plowery@umw.edu

InstructureCon 2011
our goal is to make this not the standard anymore
Bracken @ Instructure

UMW
Case Study

4 months!

We are
Located in Fredericksburg, VA College of Arts & Sciences Fredericksburg Campus

College of Business & College of Education Stafford Campus

Dahlgren Education & Research Center

LMS History
Blackboard in a Box > Blackboard version 8, hosted

Adopted Instructure Canvas April 2011

Migrated approximately 2500 courses Currently 4100+ courses and 5600+ users SIS: Banner Run enrollments 2x daily

Choosing the Next LMS Platform

Instructure awarded LMS contract

Planning - 8 months

Implementation 4 months

Phase 1: Review & Selection Process

LMS Review Committee formed (15) RFI released & Community Survey RFP released (30 days) 4 vendors selected to demo, requirements Community Feedback

Phase 2: Implementation Process

LMS Review Committee

makes recommendation: Intent to Award issued March 10, 2011

Installation, testing and technical training begins April 2011 UMW Community Involvement train-the-trainer (DL, DTLT) Faculty Pilot Testers (11, 6 weeks) Students

Faculty & Staff Training

 Getting to Know UMW's

New LMS Canvas: Basic Course Design Canvas: Advanced Course Design Canvas' SpeedGrader

 April 2011: 1

2 per week Week of August 8 & 15: 6 per week

400
350 300 250 200 150 100 50 0
Canvas: Canvas: Basic Advanced Course Design Course Design Canvas: Getting to Know UMW's New LMS Canvas' SpeedGrader Grand Total

Cancelled No Yes

Phase 3: Go Live
Target: July 28, 2011

Fall semester begins August 30

bump, bump, bump

How are we doing?

Report for Fall 2011 (14 wk, 1st 8 wks)

What does it mean?

Increase in LMS Use Increase in LMS Use for

Communication & Collaboration

Blackboard: 50% > Canvas: 96% Blackboard: 55% > Canvas: 82%

What have we discovered?

Integration: Rethink our Banner data fields to allow for cross-listed and combined courses Investigate enrollment data issue (currently 2x daily)

Best Practices
Use a Test Environment! Communicate consistently

Next Steps
Training: Effective instructional design Best Practices for F2F, Blended & Online Learning SMM - Social Media Mania MSM - Media Sensory Madness MMS - Mobile Me Soon

Current Projects
Academia College of Education Universal Learning Outcomes & Rubrics Online Writing Center virtual conferencing Student Pilot Testers USE-Ability Course
Testing the LMS (sight, sound, + learning disabilities)

VPAT, Gold certification NFB, W3cs WAIWCAg 2.0AA, Section 508

Resources
UMW Implementation Plan http://lms.umwblogs.org Training:
Canvas@UMW http://technology.umw.edu/canvas YouTube Training Channel http://www.youtube.com/user/umwittraining

Teaching & Learning DTLT: Canvas http://academics.umw.edu/dtlt/category/canvas/

Instructure Brackens Desire 2 Migrate Angels & Blackboards

http://www.youtube.com/user/CanvasLMS#grid/user/A531C177E0A26509

VPAT http://www.instructure.com/canvas_vpat NFB-NVA Certification http://www.instructure.com/news-releases/nfb-

granted-canvas-certification/

Questions?
Thank you!
Lisa Ames lames@umw.edu