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Canvas Adoption Timeline

Canvas Adoption Timeline

Moodle-to-Canvas Transition

In December 2022, the Ed Tech team began an exploration of Learning Management Systems to potentially replace Moodle, which NMC has had as its LMS for more than 15 years. While Moodle has served the NMC community well, after two years of sitting through vendor demonstrations, getting student and faculty feedback, submitting a Request for Proposal (RFP), and a lengthy instructor testing and discussion period, the college is pleased to announce that Canvas by Instructure has been approved by the Board of Trustees to be our next learning management system. This page will serve as one of the many communication methods to update the NMC community about the timeline for our implementation for Canvas. 

 

“Big Picture” Canvas Adoption Timeline

  • Summer 2024: Canvas accounts created for all NMC instructors
  • Fall 2024: Canvas pilot program (400 FTE’s) and Canvas trainings available to all instructors
  • Spring 2025: Option for all instructors to teach from Canvas or Moodle
  • Summer 2025: Continued option for all instructors to teach from Canvas or Moodle
  • Fall 2025: All instructors required to use Canvas; Moodle server is disabled

Canvas Meetings & Trainings (Updated Regularly)

  • May 8, 2024: Canvas Kick-Off Call w/ Ed Tech staff
  • May 9, 2024: Math department course conversion meeting
  • May 10, 2024: Fall pilot program finalized
  • May 15, 2024: Implementation “scoping” call with Canvas’s Mike Coates
  • May 21, 2024: Initial Canvas summer school meeting to discuss pilot program, integrations, and template course
  • May 23, 2024: Met w/ Canvas to discuss project management, administrative settings, and template course
  • May 30, 2024: Met with Gini Broadway of Instructure and scheduled Canvas admin and pilot program summer trainings
  • May 30, 2024: Met with Mike Coates to go through Canvas administrative settings and theme settings
  • June 4, 2024: Initial data provision meeting with Anna Bachman and Mike Coates to plan Banner/Canvas course sync
  • June 10, 2024: McGraw Hill textbook integration with NMC’s Canvas instance established
  • June 11, 2024: Canvas Summer School meeting to discuss outcomes and user settings
  • June 12, 2024: Met with Gini Broadway to discuss template and blueprint courses
  • June 13, 2024: Ben Post and Terri Gustafson met to establish summer responsibility assignments for Canvas development and implementation
  • June 17, 2024: Team met with Gini Broadway to discuss content creation and course flow
  • June 18, 2024: Team met with Gini Broadway to discuss assignments and quizzes, including differences between New Quizzes and Classic Quizzes
  • June 18, 2024: Canvas Summer School meeting to assign tasks in Canvas Conversion spreadsheet
  • June 20, 2024: Met with Mike Coates to decide Canvas support admins (Ben Post, Ryan Bernstein, and Mark DeLonge) and plan SSO integration
  • June 24, 2024: Ben Post met with ESIMT to discuss the possibilities related to Canvas sub-accounts and department-level administrative access
  • June 25, 2024: Canvas Summer School meeting to discuss sub accounts and department admin settings
  • June 26, 2024: Ben Post, Bryce Turner, and Mike Coates met to discuss the implementation and deployment of single-sign-on (SSO) for Canvas
  • June 27, 2024: Team met with Mike Coates to set-up administrative dashboard and get Ben Post, Mark DeLonge, and Ryan Bernstein established as Canvas administrators
  • July 2, 2024: Ben met with Anna Bachman to discuss Canvas/Banner integration and establish timeline for implementation (tentative plan is to be integrated by August 19, 2024)
  • July 2, 2024: Canvas Summer School meeting to discuss OLO, Canvas Passport training course, and how to assign training courses to fall pilot program students
  • July 9-11, 2024: Eric Carlson, Ryan Bernstein, and Ben Post attend InstructureCon (Canvas-based Conference) in Las Vegas, NV
  • July 15, 2024: InstructureCon recap meeting between Terri Gustafson and Ben Post
  • July 16, 2024: Canvas pilot cohort “Getting Started with Canvas” training with Gini Broadway from Instructure
  • July 16, 2024: Canvas Summer School meeting to discuss InstructureCon, student and instructor training courses, and New Quizzes drawbacks
  • July 18, 2024: Met with Dan Gentry from NMC and Mike Coates and Natalie Walker from Instructure to go through SIS integration with Banner, data provisioning, and Knowledgebase review for Tier 1 support
  • July 23, 2024: Canvas Summer School meeting with Dan Gentry to discuss SIS and SSO integrations with Banner
  • July 25, 2024: Met with Dan Gentry and Mike Coates to discuss SIS Banner integration
  • July 30, 2024: Canvas Summer School to discuss Pinepalooza ideas and how to roll-out training courses to students/faculty during the fall semester
  • August 1, 2024: Met with Dan Gentry and Mike Coates to continue discussion of sub-accounts, course and user syncs, and terms

Ongoing Meetings:

  • Tuesdays @ 1 pm from May 21 to August 15: Ed Tech Canvas summer school
  • Thursdays @ 1:30 pm from May 23 to TBD: Canvas support meetings w/ Mike Coates

Draft RFP Timeline

  • Review of Proposals; Vendor Presentations with Feedback Survey – January 22, 2024 – February 14, 2024
  • LMS Pilot Sandbox Evaluations – February 14, 2024 – March 14, 2024
  • Evaluation of Feedback Surveys and Sandbox Evaluations – March 14, 2024 – April 5, 2024
  • Finalize Recommendation – April 10, 2024
  • Send Recommendation to Board of Trustees – April 15, 2024
  • Board of Trustees Meeting – April 22, 2024
  • New LMS Vendor (Canvas) Finalized – April 22, 2024

Vendor Demonstrations – Completed