Common Solutions Group

Wednesday, September 18, 2013

32,000 Students2,100 Faculty1,200 Graduate Student Teachers

Selection Criteria

1. Experience, Background, and Qualifications

2. Features and Usability3. LMS Administration4. Product Environment5. Product Roadmap6. Financial

WebCT CE 8

D2L Pilot Spring 2011

D2L Opt-In Fall 2011

D2L Default Spring 2012

D2L All-In Fall 2012

Path to D2L

Growth of Courses in D2L

Sum '11 Fall '11 Spring '12

Sum '12 Fall '12 Spring '13

Sum '13 Fall '130

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Tool Usage in D2L

1. Content2. Homepages3. Discussion4. Quizzes5. DropBox6. Grades7. Surveys8. Email9. Locker10. News

And then…

Upgraded to D2L Learning Environment 10.1

January 2nd-3rd Upgraded to D2L Learning Environment 10.1

January 14Start of Spring Semester

January 162 hour outage

January 171 hour intermittent performance and access issues

January 171 hour intermittent performance and access issues

January 211 hour intermittent performance

January 29 – February 161 hour outage

What happened?

• Failure during migrating CU-Boulder to new file storage system

Managing the Storm

• Transparency and communication was key• Accessed the best past forward with D2L

Informing the

Decision

Faculty OLE Review

Committee

Audit and On-Site Visit to D2L

Interviews with Self-Hosting

Schools Determine Hardware

Requirements for Self-Hosting

Assess Risks of Self-Hosting vs Continuing to Host with D2L

We’re staying with D2L…with the following caveats

• Requiring D2L to: – Consider risk and impact when making changes– Notify us of changes that have the potential of

impacting CU-Boulder– Give CU-Boulder a choice of when to scheduled

changes

What’s next?

• Department guidance should D2L not be available in the future

• Framework for evaluating 3rd Party Integrations

Discussion and Questions…