LMS

Recommendation
Brittany Hall
Sav Siegfried
 Agenda

Evaluation Planning Analysis

01 Our Evaluation of Multiple 02 Planning our needs
Learning Management analysis
Systems

Why Canvas? Training

03 Justification for Canvas 04 Plan for training Students,
Instructors, and
Administration
01
Evaluation
Comparing Systems

We began by analyzing three of

the biggest Learning
Management Systems:
● Blackboard
● Canvas
● Moodle
Feature Analysis
We analyzed each of the system’s
features using a spreadsheet, and wrote
a narrative of our findings.

Our major takeaways were:

● Canvas does not have a blog
feature, and Blackboard does not
have Live-text chat.

● All other features were present in

each system, though there were
differences in presentation-
particularly with Moodle.
02
Needs Analysis
● Distributing the survey for your Needs Analysis:
○ Meetings with focus group of constituents,
then digital survey will be distributed via email
● Organizing and prioritizing the Data collected:
○ Referencing Google Sheets data to determine
trends
○ Trends and common responses among
constituent groups organized as priorities
● Collecting additional stakeholder needs:
○ Separate Meetings: one-on-one, just teachers,
just administrators, etc.
○ More specialized surveys for each group could
be drafted to determine more specific priorities
03
Why Canvas?
 Justification for recommending Canvas
You can have it all:
You can send emails and announcements
Create: Discussion Boards, and Assignments
Setup: Notifications, Calendar Features, Web Conferences
Monitor: Gradebooks, Reports and Performance Dashboards
Control: Accessibility Features, Navigation and Control Panels Menus
Maintain: Security Updates, Archive and Copy Courses
 Limitations associated with Canvas
Some limitations:

● Does not provide an option to Blog

● File storage has limitations (1G per course)
● Limitations exporting content with other systems
04
Training Plan
 Our Plan

Tier 1 Tier 2 Tier 3

The most basic More specialized The most specialized
information- general information, but would information that may
overviews for all users still benefit most users. not apply to all users or
based on their role. Skills within the LMS. situations.
 Student Tiers
Tier 1: Tier 2: Tier 3:
Basics for Moderate Skills Specialized
Students Information
Delivery: Screencast Delivery: Screencast Delivery: Screencast
Topics: and Written Tutorials and Written Tutorials
General Overview of Topics: Topics:
the Canvas interface Completing/Submitting Incorporating external
from the student Assignments, Checking tools/softwares,
perspective. Instructor Feedback. accessibility.
 Instructor Tiers

Tier 1: Tier 2: Tier 3:

Basics for Moderate Skills Specialized
Instructors information
Delivery: Screencast Delivery: Screencast/ Delivery: Screencast/
Topics: Written Tutorials Written Tutorials
General Overview from Topics: Topics:
Instructor perspective. Creating, managing and Viewing data reports,
Accessing Courses, grading assignments video lectures, other
Gradebook, etc. within the LMS, using external softwares that
SpeedGrader. may not apply to all
instructors.
 System Administrator Tiers

Tier 1: Tier 2: Tier 3:

Basics for System Moderate Skills Specialized
Administrators Information
Delivery: Workshop + Delivery: Workshop +
Delivery: Workshop +
Tutorials Tutorials
Tutorials
Topics: Running Topics: data reports,
Topics: General
Reports, creating and integrating systems, and
Overview of the
managing student installing external tools,
system + accessing
and instructor monitoring updates and
administrative
profiles, managing security features,
features like security.
courses. providing training to
others.
 Chester has a 1:1 technology initiative that has helped
engage students and teach them necessary 21st Century Skills.
The school currently uses Power School as its LMS.

Exposing the school to a more modern LMS such as Canvas

could be beneficial because it is also used by many other
surrounding school districts that border Chester County.