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2016 Update & Report

In Spring 2015, UCI initiated a year-long pilot of the Instructure Canvas learning management system to determine its viability as a core component of UCI’s digital learning environment. Extensive assessments have been conducted throughout the pilot, including user surveys, focus groups, and usability studies.

The Learning Management Future Direction Committee was reconvened in November, 2015 to review the Canvas pilot assessment results to date and provide recommendations on the decision process and criteria. The committee met again in January 2016 to review the most recent assessment results and develop final recommendations regarding the adoption of Canvas. The recommendations from both meetings are summarized below, followed by more detailed discussion.

Download report – Feb 4, 2016 (PDF)

2015 Update

A pilot of the Instructure Canvas learning management system started in Spring Quarter 2015, and will conclude in Winter Quarter 2016. Learn about the Canvas Pilot at: http://sites.uci.edu/canvaspilot/

The LMS Future Directions Review Team will reconvene in Fall Quarter 2015 to review and discuss the pilot assessment and provide recommendations to leadership.

2014 Update

The Learning Management Directions Review Team was reconvened in March, 2014 to review the priorities for the campus’s learning management system development. The Academic Web Technologies group presented further analysis pursuant to the LMDRT charge to continue supporting EEE as the principle LMS for the campus and enhance EEE to support interoperability with selected offerings in the rapidly evolving marketplace of third party instructional technology. 

Following that discussion and a follow up with the Provost Online Advisory Group, the consensus from these conversations is to expand the existing EEE framework through a commercial LMS (likely Instructure Canvas) in order to efficiently address the increased call for third party integration without compromising EEE’s unique functionality, capabilities, and responsiveness to campus needs. EEE’s competitive advantage stems from maintaining and leveraging direct and productive partnerships with faculty and key constituent units (Office of Information Technologies, UCI Libraries, University Registrar, University Extension, and DUE), which will continue to be essential as we embrace any new technology landscape or campus strategic alignments. AWT staff, working in conjunction with the DLC, will form the core of a technical work group to take this strategy forward.