{"id":38,"date":"2013-06-01T15:50:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-01T22:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stottetec565a\/?p=38"},"modified":"2013-06-01T15:59:14","modified_gmt":"2013-06-01T22:59:14","slug":"comparing-lms-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stottetec565a\/comparing-lms-systems\/","title":{"rendered":"Comparing LMS systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We have been asked to compare the LMS systems Blackboard Learn, Moodle, Sakai and D2L on their provision and delivery of the following functions:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>student record management<\/li>\n<li>communication tools<\/li>\n<li>assessment tools<\/li>\n<li>cost for your institution or organization<\/li>\n<li>minimum system requirements at the hosting (server) level and for end users (students and instructors)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I have created a matix that provides an overview of each of these categories by LMS.\u00a0 All LMS options offer similar tools and functions -the difference between the four is greatest in the delivery and support of their product.\u00a0 For the open source LMS options, Sakai and Moodle, Moodle seems to have a larger community with literally hundreds of plugin options and solutions that you can manage or hire a Moodle Partner to manage or provide support for their installation and use.\u00a0 Sakai also offers commercial affiliates and support but seems to have a smaller user group and fewer (no) plugin options.\u00a0 Blackboard and D2L are very similar and both offer a wide range of options and tools and cater to the custom needs of their clients.\u00a0 Both are quite likely expensive though no costs or prices are available on the site.\u00a0 I found a post by Jeff Cobb (2010) who did a study on pricing averages for Year 1 cost averages for various user levels. He states that the prices are for solutions hosted by the LMS company (i.e., software as a service) and that they include e-commerce capabilities (transaction fees are not covered).<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Up to 500: $22,083 (Low: $1,740, High: 43,500)<\/li>\n<li>Up to 2500: $43,395 (Low: $3,540, High $123,000)<\/li>\n<li>Up to 5000: $62,203 (Low: $4,440, High $183,000)<\/li>\n<li>Up to 10,000: $93,103 (Low: $8,940, High: $300,000)<\/li>\n<li>Up to 25,000: $125,220 (Low: $14,400, High $430,750)<\/li>\n<li>Unlimited: $163,650 (Low: $14,400, High: $300,000)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<table width=\"100%\" border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr bgcolor=\"#CCCCCC\">\n<td width=\"11%\" height=\"37\"><\/td>\n<td width=\"22%\">\n<div class=\"style1\" align=\"center\">Blackboard Learn<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"22%\">\n<div class=\"style1\" align=\"center\">Sakai<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"22%\">\n<div class=\"style1\" align=\"center\">Moodle<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td width=\"23%\">\n<div class=\"style1\" align=\"center\">D2L<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td height=\"60\">Student record management<\/td>\n<td>Allows for the management of registration and grades of students; allows integration with larger database<\/td>\n<td>Provides a gradebook module that allows students to recieve and access grades and feedback. Unclear if it will integrate with larger database<\/td>\n<td>Allows for the management of registration and grades of students; allows integration with larger database<\/td>\n<td>Allows for the management of registration and grades of students; allows integration with larger database<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td height=\"55\">Communication tools<\/td>\n<td>Email, Notices, Discussion Forums, Messages, Calendar, Social Learning, File Share, Dynamic visual content, internal and external collaboration tools<\/td>\n<td>Email, Notices, Discussion Forums, Calendar, Chat, wikis,<\/td>\n<td>Comment boxes, private messaging, wikis, forums, communication plugins for engagement stats, livechat, live classroom, collaboration on documents and in forums,<\/td>\n<td>Email, Notices, Discussion Forums, Online room plugin with live access to admin screen and student\/ participant computer screen; excellent for virtual training and online assistance.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td height=\"47\">Assessment tools<\/td>\n<td>Grading tools, feeback, interactive rubrics, student activity reporting, course embedded assessment, outcomes assessment, quiz and question libraries, reports<\/td>\n<td>Dropbox, quizzes and tests, gradebook, assignments<\/td>\n<td>Quiz, dropbox,tests, gradebook and import of grades; Plugins allow for similar features as blackboard and D2L<\/td>\n<td>Grading tools, feeback, interactive rubrics, student activity reporting, course embedded assessment, outcomes assessment, quiz and question libraries, reports<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td height=\"54\">Cost<\/td>\n<td>Expensive<\/td>\n<td>Open Source; Commercial affiliates offer support and hosting<\/td>\n<td>Open Source; Can hire Moodle Partner consulting firms for assistance, training and hosting<\/td>\n<td>Expensive<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td height=\"65\">Minimum system requirements<\/td>\n<td>Managed hosting and several options for systems depending on size and needs of institution<\/td>\n<td>Hosted on Commercial affiliate or downloaded and hosted on own server: for user goal is to meet all of the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 Level A and AA Success Criteria. Some issues exist with Javascript. Web based.<\/td>\n<td>Hosted on Commercial affiliate or downloaded and hosted on own server: LAMP platform; 160MB for installation; approx 5GB for content; 5GB for backup; 1GB for memory; can accomodate 10 to 20 <em>concurrent<\/em> users for every 1GB of RAM<\/td>\n<td>Managed hosting and several options for systems depending on size and needs of institution<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><strong>References<\/strong><br \/>\nCobb, Jeff. (June 2010) Learning Management System Pricing. Retrieved from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tagoras.com\/2010\/06\/22\/learning-management-system-pricing\/ \" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.tagoras.com\/2010\/06\/22\/learning-management-system-pricing\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have been asked to compare the LMS systems Blackboard Learn, Moodle, Sakai and D2L on their provision and delivery of the following functions: student record management communication tools assessment tools cost for your institution or organization minimum system requirements at the hosting (server) level and for end users (students and instructors) I have created [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18231,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[163],"tags":[3730,752595,4082,752598,3716,163,318,752596],"class_list":["post-38","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-module-2","tag-blackboard","tag-blackboard-learn","tag-d2l","tag-desire-2-learn","tag-lms","tag-module-2","tag-moodle","tag-sakai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stottetec565a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stottetec565a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stottetec565a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stottetec565a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18231"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stottetec565a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stottetec565a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stottetec565a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38\/revisions\/44"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stottetec565a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stottetec565a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/stottetec565a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}