The document summarizes the transition from the learning management system Angel to Canvas across Washington state community and technical colleges. It describes how a committee selected Canvas after Blackboard acquired and discontinued support for Angel. It then provides high-level details about the migration process, noting it has been easy for early adopters, and encourages readers to create a test course in Canvas to get familiar with the new system ahead of their college's migration.
1. GETTING TO KNOW
CANVAS…
Liz Falconer, Renton Technical College
Parts of this presentation can be found in slightly different form at:
http://www.slideshare.net/sbctc98632
6. The RFP Committee was formed:
SBCTC Staff
ELC (eLearning directors)
LMDC (librarians)
ITC (chief IT officers)
Instruction Commission (chief academic
officers)
WSSSC (chief student services officers)
ADA Council
Faculty association
Six public universities
7. The Search began:
Timeline:
Sept 2011 – Committee Formed (20 members)
Oct 2011 – Faculty Surveyed
Nov 2011 – RFP Out
Jan 2012 – RFPs scored, Finalists Chosen
Feb 2012 – Sandboxes Open to Faculty Testers
Mar 26th & 27th – Onsite Demos, Vendor Chosen
Summer, 2012 – First College Migrations Begin
2012/13 – Majority of colleges and Univs migrate
RTC MIGRATION: FALL, 2013 But prep can begin
now!
(June 2014 – ANGEL contract ends)
8. CANVAS WAS CHOSEN.
Why Canvas?
First choice of faculty testers
Highest score on technical response
Highest score on vendor references
Hosts in the cloud
Great use of mobile and social media
Integration and sharing/trust
relationships
11. EARLY ADOPTERS SAY:
MIGRATION IS QUITE EASY!*
* Almost always.
WORRIED ABOUT PROBLEMS? Canvas has a blog:
voice.instructure.com/blog
This was posted on Sept. 7th:
Listening to Our Customers
One of the things that makes Instructure unique is that we maintain
open feature request forums. Any user (student, instructor, or
administrator) can suggest a new feature and receive feedback from
the user community. These feature requests are public - you can
browse all the requests, add your own comments, and vote up the
requests you think are great.
