Course Management System (CMS) Review
The Course Management System Review Advisory Committee, a system-wide group with broad representation from commissions and councils, was asked to research and evaluate course management system (CMS) options for Washington community and technical colleges. This review included commercial products and services (e.g., Blackboard/WebCT and Angel), open-source (e.g., Sakai and Moodle) and internally developed or “home-grown” systems.
The project delivered two products:
- A decision support tool for colleges to use in planning their course management system strategy.
- The result set of a Request for Proposals (RFP) of vendor-supplied solutions based on both proprietary and open source course management system products. This RFP was used to select a new course management system for WashingtonOnline. WAOL chose Angel and will begin migrating to Angel July 2008. RFP results have been sent to the elearning coordinator of each college for use by colleges in their planning.
Project Documents
CMS Review Updates
- January 26, 2007
- March 1, 2007
- April 2, 2007
- May 1, 2007
- June 1, 2007
- July 2, 2007
- August 2, 2007
- September 4, 2007
- October 10, 2007
- November 8, 2007
- December 7, 2007
- January 9, 2008
- February 12, 2008
- March 15, 2008
- April 2, 2008
- CMS Final Update May 2008
User Research Study
Additional Resources
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