7 Steps to Take Before You Make the LMS Switch

Agenda Overview of today’s webinar Poll: Where are you in the migration process? Introductions Libby Lawrie: 7 Steps Bryan Bennett: itslearning’s solution Q&A Our new 16-page guide illustrating the 7 Steps to Take Before you Make the Switch

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Jill Davis itslearning Libby Lawrie itslearning Our Presenters Bryan Bennett itslearning

1 Define Your Goals

Step 1: Define Your Goals Do you want to: Make it easier for teachers to do their jobs? Improve communication and collaboration? More effectively manage curriculum/assets?

2 Assemble Your Team

Step 2: Assemble Your Team Gather champions from: IT and SIS Curriculum experts Project managers Database administrators Solution provider

3 Review Course Design

Step 3: Review Current Course Design, Document Improvements What can your new LMS do beyond your current platform? Align content, resources to learning objectives Assessment (offline activities, ePortfolios) Facilitating the Four C’s

4 Review Your IT Policies

Step 4: Review Your IT Policies Is your new LMS in compliance? Testing environment (sandbox) Security, user profiles, permissions Dashboard design guidelines SIS integration, single sign on (SSO)

5 Define Your Scope

Step 5: Define Scope/Plan for Data, Content and Course Migration How do you manage your curriculum? Use course templates and planners Let teachers work with sandbox courses

Real-World Migrations Houston ISD (Mass Migration) Forsyth County (Crowdsourced) Harford County (Best Practice) Bartholomew (Teaching Strategies)

Real-World Migrations Houston ISD TX (Mass Migration) Forsyth County (Crowdsourced) Harford County (Best Practice) Bartholomew (Teaching Strategies)

Real-World Migrations Houston ISD TX (Mass Migration) Forsyth County (Crowdsourced) Harford County (Best Practice) Bartholomew (Teaching Strategies)

Real-World Migrations Houston ISD TX (Mass Migration) Forsyth County (Crowdsourced) Harford County (Best Practice) Bartholomew (Teaching Strategies)

6 Develop Communication, PD Plans

Step 6: Develop Communications and Professional Development Plans Professional Development Collaboration, school-level support Use your LMS to manage and deliver Let teachers try it out

Step 6: Develop Communications and Professional Development Plans Communications Plan Define your message (type, approach, format) Who will deliver? To which audience? Create a schedule Identify resources needed Measure success

7 Test & Troubleshoot

Step 7: Test and Troubleshoot to Ensure Go-Live Readiness Define your testing criteria Develop feedback process Prioritize and act on feedback Communicate changes made

“Ok. I get it. Now what?” itslearning: Two reasons to schedule a free product tour: 1.#1 Migration LMS 2.itslearning: its…different

#1 Migration LMS -Content -Process -Strategy -Scale Reason 1:

#1 -Content Process Strategy Scale Save the content! Don’t start over!

Content -Process Strategy Scale #1 200,000+ <2,000 23,000

Strategy: Four strategies for curriculum management Houston ISD Mass Migration Curriculum Guides as templates Planner with units/standards Custom planner fields Publisher content in Library Forsyth Jump started & crowd sourced Jump start Library Math and LA Sandbox courses by teachers Lots of teacher PDSchool-level support Harford Focused Best Practice Built best practice courses and replicate Use of standards aligned planner Focus on student- centered activities Bartholomew Universal Design for Learning Use Sandbox/Resource Courses Multiple means of representation Multiple means of action and expression Multiple means of engagement Content Process -Strategy Scale #1

Content Process Strategy -Scale #1

its…different -100% K-12. Period. (and K-2 Portal) -Easy teaching, personalization, and data -Custom planner / standards mastery -Implementation team Reason 2:

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