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Spring 2016

• Benchmarking and planning(Fall 2015)
• Communications out to the community (November 2015):
  • Announcement about the LMS Evaluation
  • Invitation to participate in the Canvas Pilot
• Canvas limited pilot ran during Spring semester
• Blackboard Ultra beta internal review conducted
• End of Semester Report to Advisory Committee

Summer 2016

• Communications out to the community (March 2016):
  • Announcement of Canvas Pilot continuation
  • Invitation to participate
• Canvas pilot expanded to full campus
• Blackboard Ultra beta new feature release internal review
• End of Semester Report to Advisory Committee

Fall 2016

• Communications out to the community (August 2016):
  • Announcement of Canvas Pilot continuation
  • Invitation to participate
• Canvas pilot expanded to include Qatar
• Blackboard Ultra beta internal review
• Presentation to the University Education Council (October 2016)
• Announcement to all University Instructors (October 2016)
• End of Semester Report to Advisory Committee
• Decision and Communication to the Community

Spring 2017

• If needed, LMS Migration Activities begin.
  
  

As part of our investigation activities, the Eberly Center surveyed 17 universities who have done or are doing an LMS evaluation. Many of the institutions evaluted Canvas and were users of Blackboard at the time of evaluation. Of the 17 surveyed, 6 chose to migrate to Canvas from Blackboard; 3 migrated to Canvas from another LMS; 1 migrated to Sakai from Blackboard; 2 stayed with Blackboard (1 of whom will re-evaluate in Fall 2016); 3 are currently piloting Canvas; 1 is improving on an in-house solution; 1 uses both Blackboard and Canvas. Institutions we benchmarked include:

• Baylor University
• Cornell University
• Duke University
• Emory University
• Georgia Institute of Technology
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Northwestern University
• Oregon State University
• Penn State University
• Purdue University
• Rice University
• Stanford University
• University of Maryland
• University of Pennsylvania
• University of Texas at Austin
• Washington State University
• Yale University

Criteria cited as influencing the decision to migrate to Canvas or stay with Blackboard, that we also have on our list of criteria include:

• Ease of use, improved user experience, clean design, low learning curve
• Adaptability and flexibility
• LTI integrations, API availability
• Mobile support
• Digital Accessibility
• Stability/uninterrupted service/low downtime

View the Benchmarking Report here...

The LMS Advisory Committee is an interdisciplinary group of students, faculty, and staff who meet regularly to discuss the progress of the LMS evaluation, raise concerns or areas of investigation, and inform the decision on the future of Carnegie Mellon's learning management system.

Members of the LMS Advisory Committee are:

• Nasser Alaeddine - Director, Educational and Media Technoloy, Carnegie Mellon Qatar
• Shlomo Balass - Assistant Director, Services Development, Computer Services
• Kathryn Barraclough - MBA Head, Tepper School of Business
• Norman Bier - Director, Open Learning Initiative
• Judith Brooks - Director, Educational Technology & Design, Eberly Center
• Sushain Cheirvirala - Sophomore, Computer Science Department
• Jeff Galak - Associate Professor of Marketing, Tepper School of Business
• Elizabeth Hargrave-Thomas - Masters Student, Tepper School of Business
• Lorelei Hoover - Educational Technology Consultant, Eberly Center
• Kristen Kurland - Teaching Professor, Information Systems, Heinz College
• Marsha Lovett - Director, Eberly Center, Teaching Professor of Psychology
• Sarah Moss-Horwitz - Senior, Social & Decision Sciences, Human-Computer Interaction
• John Papinchak - University Registrar
• Ryan Roderick - Doctoral Student, English
• Majd Sakr - Teaching Professor, Computer Science Department
• Peter Scupelli - Assistant Professor, Design
• Karen Stump - Director of Undergraduate Studies & Teaching Professor, Chemistry
• Tim Zak - Associate Teaching Professor, Heinz College

Would you like to pilot Canvas for your course, or explore what Canvas has to offer with a sandbox course?

• To pilot Canvas for a course you are teaching or to request a Canvas sandbox course to see what Canvas has to offer, please complete this form:

Would like to be on the dlist to receive project updates?

• Send us an email so we know to add you to the list and/or to request more information about participation options: eberly-assist@andrew.cmu.edu.