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"In Summer 2013, Hinds Community College (as well as the other 14 community colleges in Mississippi) will move to the Canvas platform by Instructure as the new learning management system for the college.  Blackboard will no longer be available after June 1, 2013 to students or faculty.  This website will serve as the communication tool regarding the migration to Canvas.  Please check back often for additional information regarding best practices, timeline for implementation, and training materials. PLEASE BOOKMARK THIS PAGE AND CHECK BACK OFTEN.  Frequent emails will also be sent out regarding updates. "

"Canvas has drastically improved this process, so you should be able to easily import courses from your existing Blackboard course archive files. [Learn more about finding your course archives.] "

The following are archived videos from the ELMS Pilot Evaluation Webinar Series. In those webinars, ELMS pilot faculty members talk about their experiences with each of the five ELMS pilot systems: Blackboard 9.1, Desire2Learn, Canvas, Moodle, and Sakai. The ELMS pilot evaluation faculty members give an overview of each system, highlight unique features, and talk about what works and what doesn't. Most of the webinars are available to watch either in Wimba Live Classroom or on YouTube. The following are archived videos from the ELMS Pilot Evaluation Webinar Series. In those webinars, ELMS pilot faculty members talk about their experiences with each of the five ELMS pilot systems: Blackboard 9.1, Desire2Learn, Canvas, Moodle, and Sakai. The ELMS pilot evaluation faculty members give an overview of each system, highlight unique features, and talk about what works and what doesn't. Most of the webinars are available to watch either in Wimba Live Classroom or on YouTube. Introduction

Bucks County Community College - Canvas course

look at PPT at bottom of page

Nice article that outlines migration from a high level - admin needs, faculty needs, etc.

Bowling Green State University findings on Canvas pilot including Strengths and Future Enhancements. Organized in a way that could be useful to KSC in the early stages = good talking points

Canvas and LMS selection criteria

Following an evaluation process that encompassed almost two years, Michigan Tech selected the Canvas Learning Management System,from Instructure, Inc. It was the clear choice of faculty and student testers, and is very intuitive and easy to use.

Tips for the bitter end of migration from UMW.

angel to canvas selection process

Graphic that explains the relationship between terms and course dates and how to set terms and course dates to control user access: 

The LMS market is in flux. According to a 2010 survey conducted by the Campus Computing Project, Blackboard's dominance of the higher education market declined from 71 percent in 2006 to 57 percent in 2010. Open source alternatives Moodle and Sakai have continued to make inroads, as has Desire2Learn--together they now control over 30 percent of the market. The entry of Instructure, whose Canvas LMS recently scooped up the business of the Utah Education Network, provides an additional plot twist. And hanging over it all is the imminent migration of hundreds of legacy Blackboard clients to new systems as their existing platforms are retired.

LMS Implementation: Tentative Migration Plan

We recommend that unless you absolutely need to import a Blackboard course, it is always best to start fresh with a new course. However, we realize that this is not always possible for instructors.

could use this in our training nothing insttitution specific

Guiding Faculty Through (Inevitable) Technological Change Fred Zinn - OIT Academic Computing, University of Massachusetts Amherst