WebCT/Vista

Yesterday I finally had a chance to play around with WebCT/Vista. I feel that my experience would have been far different if I had not already experience Moodle so intensely. I found it quite easy to navigate and perhaps more intuitive because of my Moodle experience.  The fact that there were very detailed step-by-step instructions also made a difference to the experience. If I needed to figure out how to work it myself, I would have spent far longer on the activities.  It was nice to work in a space that automatically linked pages and activities in the right category.  Navigation is also much easier than within Moodle.  I can see the benefit of a school paying for this vendor created LMS, as it could cut down on precious time for those who need to use it. Moodle needs more work to make it presentable but with time and exploration, it can be done and for many institutions and schools, the cost is too great to contemplate a vendor created system.