LMS Review

Links to the recordings of the vendor demos will be poster here along with on the Meeting Minutes page.

Instructure – Demo of Canvas
April 4th – Panopto Recording
April 5th – Panopto Recording

Blackboard – Demo of Blackboard Learn 9.1
April 11th – Panopto Recording
April 12th – Panopto Recording

Moodlerooms – Demo of Joule
April 18th – Panopto Recording
April 19th – Panopto Recording

Links to the Blackboard 9.1  and the Canvas demo servers have been under the ‘Links’ section.

Important information about the Blackboard 9.1 demo site.
1. The site has an invalid SSL certificate.  You will need to tell your browser to trust the the invalid certificate to proceed.
2. The system is a clone of what production looked like in January.

The system is not as fast as it would be in production for two reasons.
1. The underlying database is undersized.
2. Content is coming from Winter Haven.

Please try not to base your impressions on the perceived performance of the system.  Like any Blackboard upgrade, many tools, enhancements , and customization need to be tweaked and that takes time.  Your looking at sausage fresh from the grinder.   Before an actual upgrade these would all be fixed.

If you encounter problems please let us know and we will help diagnose them as 9.1 issues, demo performance issues, upgrade artifacts, or function as design.

Welcome to the University of South Florida LMS Review Committee website.  The committee consist of faculty, staff, and student throughout the USF System.  It was formed to ensure the Learning Management System (LMS) that is used by USF is and will continue to meet the needs of faculty, staff, and students.

Navigating Around the Site

Meeting Minutes and Related Documents – This page contains the Elluminate or Panopto recordings of the meetings and any documents created by the committee.

Schedule and Calendar – This page contains links to the Google calendar, the calendar  iCal link (this allows the calendar to be added to any calendar program that allows the iCal format), a short agenda description for each meeting and links to the live Elluminate session.

Supplemental Documents – This page contains documents from other universities that have gone through similar processes.