Sakai@UD Update
Presentation to the LMS Committee – 3-26-2009
(Updated 3-27-2009)
Mathieu Plourde, LMS Project Leader/Instructional Designer
IT-User Services

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Presentation Plan
1. Sakai@UD Metrics
2. Follow-up on the LMS Committee Site
3. FAQ and Documentation Efforts
4. Farewell to WebCT
5. Next Meeting
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1. Sakai@UD Metrics
Warning!
The following data is an approximation.
CONTROLLED SELF-SERVICE
Attribution: Jeffrey Beall on Flick.com Attribution: Sean Munson on Flick.com
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Fall Course Sites in a
Learning Management System at UD
1400
1200
1000
597
800
Sakai
WebCT
600
837
400 782
663
571
563
508
200
344
215
40
0
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
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Spring Course Sites in a
Learning Management System at UD
1200
1000
800
723
Sakai
600
WebCT
797
400 782
676
596
453
200
365 362
219
141
0
2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
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Proportion of Course Sites
Fall 2008 Spring 2009
33%
49% WebCT WebCT
51% Sakai Sakai
67%
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Unique Faculty Users
• Unique faculty who have created at least one
Sakai course:*
Fall 2008 346
Winter 2009 68
Spring 2009 432
Unique (all semesters) 573
* Includes IT staff members who have created courses manually.
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2. Follow-up on the LMS Committee Site
• Sakai project site to foster collaboration
• Forums Activity
• 8 personal worksheets, keep them coming!
• Troubleshooting
• Practices
• Feature requests
• BlogWow!
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http://tinyurl.com/UD-UseCases
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3. FAQ and Documentation Efforts
Changed the Help home page to
direct users to the Support and
Training site.
Integrated the UD Google search
engine.
Created a list of FAQs. This list is
driven by the number of Help
Center requests.
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4. Farewell to WebCT
Attribution: Creativity+ Timothy K Hamilton on Flick.com
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Sakai Project Implementation Overview
= Done
Metrics Fall 2008
Metrics Spring 2009 (in progress)
Sakai sites 597 course sites
Sakai sites 723 course sites
Begin full WebCT sites 571 course sites
operational WebCT sites 362 course sites
Target 20% of course sites on Sakai
support for Target 50% of course sites on Sakai
Actual 51% of course sites on Sakai
Sakai Actual 67% of course sites on Sakai
Departmental demos, faculty developing and delivering their courses,
self-help, workshops, individual consultations + WebCT support
FALL ‘08 SPRING ‘09
WINTER ‘09 SUMMER ‘09
Faculty survey
Project sites made
available for Faculty/Staff Sakai track at Summer
Faculty Institute
Project sites made
Deployment of available for students
Sakai 2.6
Information Technologies Updated March 26, 2009

Sakai Project Implementation Overview
End of Blackboard full operational
support for WebCT 4.1
End of WebCT
support at UD
Faculty developing and delivering their courses, self-help,
Workshops, individual consultations
FALL ‘09 SPRING ‘10
WINTER ‘10 SUMMER ‘10
Metrics Fall 2009 Metrics Spring 2010
Target 80% of course sites on Sakai Target 95% of course sites on Sakai
Information Technologies Updated March 26, 2009

Categories of Faculty Users
I’m waiting until the next
semester I am teaching.
• Prior WebCT Users:
Migrated all their courses to Sakai.
• Sakai is missing a feature
I had in WebCT!
Migrated some courses to Sakai.
•
Did not migrate anything yet, but intends to do so.
•
Did not migrate, and does not intend to.
• I hope to catch up during
slower times, like Summer.
I’m about to retire, so I don’t need an LMS anymore.
don’t bug me!
I did not know about Show me what is available
WebCT, but Sakai is great!
• Other Users: at UD.
• New to using a LMS.
I don’t need any technology
• New UD Faculty. to teach my course!
• Non-Users. I’m doing just fine with
my own Web 2.0 stuff.
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5. Next Meeting
• Tuesday, June 16, 2009
• Marriott, Salon B-C
• 8:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
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Thank You!
• Questions, Comments?
• Mathieu Plourde
LMS Project Leader/Instructional Designer – IT-User Services
mathieu@udel.edu
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