1. Project Vista Kick-Off CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, CHICO September 12, 2005

2. WELCOME  Thanks for coming!  What’s this “Project Vista” all about?  Moving Chico to an Enterprise LMS  LMS Strategic Review (www/tlp/LMS2)  Overview of today  Current Status of Chico’s LMS  Future Vision of Chico’s LMS  Project Vista Specifics

3. CURRENT LMS STATUS at CSU Chico WebCT CAMPUS EDITION (version 4.1)  Each course is self-contained  Individual faculty  Supporting Campus Communities  No Reporting in Campus Edition  WALRUS  WebCT Activity Log Reporting & Utilization Statistics

4. FUTURE ENTERPRISE LMS at CSU Chico WebCT Vista (version 4.0)  All faculty (1,000) and students (16,000) using WebCT weekly, if not daily  Reporting Capabilities  Supports Institutional hierarchy  Ease of use – Contemporary Web Interface

5. WALRUS Summary WebCT Statistics

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

7. WALRUS Course Section View

8. Campus Edition Homepage & Add Tools

9. Vista Homepage & Add Tools

10. Campus Edition File Manager

11. Vista File Manager

12. Campus Edition Gradebook

13. Vista Gradebook

14. Vista – new roles

15. Vista structure

16. OLD & NEW ARCHITECTURE  Campus Edition – Only One Server!  Campus Edition not designed to be enterprise  Flat-file database, Perl scripts, no fail-over, corruption  Backup millions of small files  Vista  Relational dbase, Java  Oracle backups and recovery  Load balanced  Clustered servers, scalable

17. WebCT Vista Architecture* * Recommended hardware platforms

18. 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, e-portfolios, library systems, as well as plagiarism detection and content development tools  Deliver high levels of availability (24 x 7), reliability, and performance  Meet demands for future growth (scalable, sustainable)

19. 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  Dept. & Colleges  University-wide

20. MILESTONES  Fall 2005 – Installation & Training  Intersession 2006 – Train & Prep for Pilots  Spring 2006 – Run Pilots, Integrate  Summer 2006 – Migrate courses, Test integration  Fall 2006 – ½ courses in Vista  Spring 2007 – all courses in Vista  Summer 2007 – Clean-up & wrap up

21. TIMELINE Spring 2005  LMS Strategic Review  Purchased Vista License  Purchased computers for training lab Summer 2005  Purchased Vista Hardware  Attended WebCT Conference in SF

22. TIMELINE Fall 2005  Consulting Services  Pre-, Install, Post- installation of Dev. and Prod. Systems  Training (Admin. and User Interface)  Develop Migration Processes  Plan Integrations  Develop Training  Pick Pilot Courses/Faculty  Set-up faculty training lab

23. TIMELINE Intersession 2006  Migrate Pilot Courses  Train Faculty leading Pilots  Fine Tune System for Spring Pilots  Manual Enrollment

24. TIMELINE Spring 2006  Run Pilot Courses  Do integrations with CMS/Portal/LDAP/etc.  Refine training/migration/implementation  Meet with depts./colleges to prep for migration either Spring or Summer  Begin some training and course migrations for Fall

25. TIMELINE Summer 2006  Run Summer Sessions with Enterprise Integration  Training  Migration  Support

26. TIMELINE Fall 2006  Enterprise Integration Running  Half of all WebCT Courses running on Vista Production System  Training  Migration  Support

27. TIMELINE Spring 2007  All WebCT Courses on Vista Production System Summer 2007  Complete any left-over migrations  Move towards retiring Campus Edition

28. ROLES FOR ATEC Bill Evans – Project Manager  Lead technical implementation & migration  Work with INF personnel and WebCT  See that Enterprise integrations achieved  Portal, PeopleSoft, SSL/LDAP, Library,  Arrange meetings to discuss technical & support issues (STCP, Computing Services, etc.)  Implement and keep project moving down the timeline/pipeline  Run meetings that keep personnel on track with a feedback loop

29. ROLES FOR ATEC Laura Sederberg – Program Manager  Lead departmental and program side of planning, training migration, & support  Arrange departmental meetings to discuss faculty pedagogical and dept. goals & issues  Train new ITCs and students  Contact other universities to learn from their Vista transition  Create/modify and/or beta test Vista 4.0 training materials for Chico, schedule workshops  Support faculty after training and migration  Create/modify TLP web site for supporting Vista 4.0  Work with Vicky and other IMC staff for creating communication and marketing materials for campus  Set up and manage Faculty Training Lab

30. ROLES NEEDED FROM INF STAFF Directors will work with their staff on planning and timing support for Vista  Computing operations & networking support  DBA support  PeopleSoft-WebCT-Portal integration  User Support Services to support faculty and students

31. ROLES NEEDED FROM CAMPUS  Enrollment Management  Deans and Dept. Chairs  Accreditation and Program Assessment  AURA Committee  Faculty (pilots, mentors, committees)  Students

32. WHAT’S NEXT?