Evaluating Course Management Systems

Goal: evaluate Blackboard and WebCT for potential adoption of one over the other, or potentially drop both and adopt an OKI-based replacement. 
Tools: Blackboard and WebCT trial/demo sites, local installations
Resources: Academic Computing Managers, vendor representatives, white papers, faculty feedback, and reports of similar efforts by other institutions end-users
Timeline: Decision needed by Summer 2003

Description:  The pricing for both commercial CMS projects is scheduled to sky-rocket in 2003 and we will no longer be able to simultaneously support both products. If we adopt an OKI-based product, we may need to write our own quiz engine (see x project) for use in Physics and Math courses.

WebBoard trial site (expires 16 July 2002) 
http://v35trials.webct.com/SCRIPT/wesleyan/scripts/serve_home
Username: wesleyan
Password: jolee

Blackboard trial site
http://coursesites.blackboard.com/bin/common/course.pl?course_id=_55377_1&frame=top&m=20021514041535Username: Username: wesleyan
Password: blackboard

Other Institutions' Reports

Which Web Course Management System is Right for Me? A Comparison of WebCT 3.1 and Blackboard 5.0
http://astro.temple.edu/~jburston/CALICO/review/webct-bb00.htm

Evaluation and Selection of Web Course Management Tools Sunil Hazari, Ed.D
http://sunil.umd.edu/webct/

Comparative Analysis of Online Educational Delivery Applications: A web tool for comparative analysis
http://www.c2t2.ca/landonline/

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