![]() We wanted to understand what kinds of features they were excited about integrating in their teaching practice. We also polled our faculty to ask which features, NOT currently in our Blackboard instance, would they like to see implemented as part of our “future LMS”. Once we had this, we evaluated the candidates against this baseline standard. We assumed that any “future LMS” we looked at needed to contain all of these functions that faculty are already depending on to run their courses. This data served as a baseline comparison for all of the LMS candidates we looked at. Delivering SECURE online exams (with Respondus Lockdown Browser): 13.9%.Web 2.0 Tools (Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, Private Journals): 25%.Blackboard Groups (group collaboration spaces): 27.8%.The “Assignment” tool for assigning, collecting, and grading student work: 38.9%.Delivering Online Exams, Quizzes, and Surveys: 40.3%.Sharing links to outside websites: 59.7%.Emailing Students and Colleagues: 76.4%. ![]() Posting Documents, Powerpoints, and PDFs: 90.3%.Update- Data CollectedĪs part of our effort to understand which LMS features our faculty depend upon from Blackboard 8, we polled them (84 responded) and we created this breakdown of how they are using our current LMS: (Please feel free to view our survey instrument and make your own copy to support your own LMS self-study). With that great input, I created this simple survey to understand faculty LMS usage: He had surveyed his faculty to find out (AKA low-tech analytics), and graciously agreed to share his survey instrument with us. Could it be that they don’t want us to know how few of these expensive bells and whistles are actually being used?Īfter seeing an excellent talk by Jon Mott on the future of the LMS, I was amazed that he had the kind of data we were looking for. That’s why I was so surprised to find that Blackboard provides no way of knowing which tools faculty are actually using in the LMS. During the process of evaluating Blackboard as our Learning Management System (LMS), we came to a basic and fundamental question:Īlthough most of the core functions of an online course can be managed with a blog, Learning Management systems come stuffed with loads of bells and whistles that promise to engage, inform, and assess students like nothing else can.
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