1. Project Vista Kick-Off CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, CHICO November 16, 2005

2. Welcome! What’s this “Project Vista” all about?  Moving Chico to an Enterprise LMS  Next Generation Online Learning  Helping faculty and departments manage courses and content  Improving students’ learning experiences

3. Current LMS Status at CSU Chico WebCT Campus Edition Version 4.1  Lots of clicks  Each course is self-contained  Difficult to collaborate  Difficult to manage content  Cumbersome gradebook

4. WebCT Growth 13,362 Students (Est.) 1,329 Sections 639 Faculty

5. Future Enterprise LMS WebCT Vista Version 4.0  All faculty (1,000) and students (16,000) using WebCT  Reporting capabilities  Supports institutional hierarchy  Ease of use – contemporary Web interface

6. Vision for Project Vista  Provide leading academic technology for the university’s core mission of teaching and learning  Offer faculty and students rich tools for communication, collaboration, assessment and workflow management  Support important teaching and learning tools and best practices, including the use and integration of content repositories, streaming and multimedia technologies  Meet demands for future growth (scalable, sustainable)

7. What Defines Success?  Stable, Integrated, Enterprise System  Course Content Migration  Least impact on faculty and students  Leverage more of the new system’s features and capabilities  Faculty & Students  Department & Colleges  University-wide

8. What do YOU want to know about Vista?

9. Campus Edition myWebCT Not Customizable

10. Vista myWebCT Very customizable

11. Campus Edition Homepage Lots of Clicks

12. Vista Homepage

13. Campus Edition File Manager Lots of Clicks

14. Vista File Manager Role of Course Designer

15. Campus Edition Gradebook

16. Vista Gradebook Role of instructor

17. Student Performance Report From Vista Gradebook

18. Vista Migration Message Log

19. Vista Selective Release Role of Course Designer

20. Vista organizational structure & levels WebCT Vista Server CSU, Chico College of Natural Sciences ChemistryPhysics CHEM 100CHEM 107 01 03 05 02 04 06 01 03 02 04 Domain level = server Institution level = university Division level = college Group level = department Courses = master course Sections = individual class

21. Vista roles at organization levels Admin Help Desk Designer Instructor Teaching Assistant Student Auditor These roles are available at the many organizational levels of domain, institution, division, group, course and section.

22. Vista has many roles for help desk

23. Vista settings at the Division level

24. Targets & Milestones  Fall 2005 – Installation & Training  Intersession 2006 – Train & develop pilots  Spring 2006 – Run Pilots; Integration  Summer 2006 – Migrate courses, test integration  Fall 2006 – half courses in Vista  Spring 2007 – all courses in Vista  Summer 2007 – Clean-up & wrap up

25. Timeline Fall 2005  Vista Installed  Staff Training  Develop Migration Processes  Develop Faculty Training  Plan Spring Pilot

26. Pilot Group  Bill Bergman, Kinesiology  Becky Damazo, Nursing  Cris Guenter, Education  Jeff Jiang, Recreation  Lorraine Gardiner, Accounting & MIS  Terry Miller-Herringer, Psychology  Rita Mulholland, Special Ed.  Terry Noel, Management  Michael Spiess, Agriculture

27. Timeline Intersession 2006  Migrate Pilot Courses  Train Pilot Faculty Group  Develop support materials

28. Timeline Spring 2006  10 Pilot Courses  Integrate with CMS / Portal / LDAP, etc.  Refine training, migration and support  Meet with depts./colleges to prep for migration either Spring or Summer  Begin departmental training and course migrations

29. Timeline Summer 2006  Summer Pilot  Training  Migration  Support

30. Timeline Fall 2006  Vista in Full Production  Half of WebCT Courses migrated  Training, Migration, & Support

31. Timeline Spring 2007  All WebCT Courses on Vista Production System Summer 2007  Complete any remaining migrations  Retire Campus Edition

32. Campus Involvement  Enrollment Management  Deans and Dept. Chairs  Accreditation and Program Assessment  AURA Committee  Faculty  Students

33. Vista improvements over CE  Gradebook - scrolling grades, freeze frame  Student profiles, all grades in one place  Gradable discussions  Shared chat/whiteboard combo tool  File sharing for student groups  Web page assignments  Migration choices - content or whole course  Content sharing among faculty/depts

34. Next Steps  Meet with Deans to discuss Vista capabilities college-wide (by March 1)  Meet with Departments to discuss training/migration of programs/options (March – July)  Customize training as needed

35. CSU, Chico Vista Web site www.csuchico.edu/tlp/vista