How to Ensure Your LMS Migration Doesn't Fly South (288336151)

How to Insure Your LMS Migration Doesn’t Fly South

Vicki WestergardOnline Learning and Services – St. Petersburg College

Disclaimers This is an interactive presentation

o I have been authorized to throw things Some objects may be closer than they appear

• Clever titles work best when they make sense

• “How to insure your LMS migration doesn’t fly south”

Poll: Who’s here?

Poll: What time is it for your migration?

“If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to be a horrible warning.”

- Catherine Aird

Migration Stories in a Minute

WebCT >> ANGEL >> major ANGEL upgrade

What we heard

• YOU did this to me! • Training is for newbies• Surprise! Isn’t this great?• WHAT NEW SYSTEM? • None of your course content will migrate• I can’t log in to my class, it must be because of

ANGEL• We’ve got this. How hard can it be to set up

an LMS?• ANGEL is the new Devil

Catch Box!

• What is your biggest challenge or fearregarding migration?

What we want

• Cooperation• Smooth processes• Positive communication• Consistency• Comfort & reliability• Happy people• World Peace

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What was different this time?

Communication College-wide

Understanding = Buy-in• Get involved in the selection• Market in many mediums• Crosswalk your options• Mythbusters

https://web.archive.org/web/20140928171700/http://www.spcollege.edu/wits/d2l-transition-mythbusters/

Faculty want OPTIONS for ACTION

• What can I do right now?• Training phases and modalities• MyResources tutorials

https://myresources.spcollege.edu/home • Cheerleaders - eLearning Paloozza• Support

– Staff - MyCourses4Faculty email and phone number

– Peers - faculty facilitators– Minions - Migration preppers

Student Readiness

• Comfort in familiarity• Automagic SSO from old to new• Intro to MyCourses open to everyone

– 12,000 students have accessed, faculty/staff• Searchable knowledge base• Promo – Giveaways, Posters, Emails &

Announcements

Think-Pair-Share meets Catch Box!

• Consider your top 5 strategies for a smooth migration?

Timelines• Selection & contracting – 12 months• Configuration, train the trainer and preparation – 4

months• Training 2,300 faculty – 9 months• Marketing to students – 9 months• Pilot and expanded pilot – Summer and Fall• Total time once contract was signed – 1 year

Resources leveraged

• People, people and more people– CETL and FGO– 6 instructional design specialists– 1 course delivery manager– 6 part-time migration preppers (6 months)– Systems administrators & CATO/liaison– Faculty facilitators

• Marketing• Promotional items, candy, sedatives • A good sense of humor

Was it perfect? No…

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Thanks for not flying south!

Vicki Westergard – [email protected]

– Best practices– Timeline– Resources needed– Take faculty viewpoint– Work in pairs/threes– What was your biggest challenge?– Make a list of 5 – pick 1 to share– Have you already converted? Middle of conversion? Group

people– Worse practices– Time keeper Assign someone– “In a few words”