ITN 12R-008 LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEM
EXHIBIT A
FUNCTIONALITY MATRIX LMS SOFTWARE LICENSE
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EXHIBIT A
LMS LICENSING FUNCTIONALITY MATRIX
A.1FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENTS MATRIX LMS SOFTWARE LICENSE
A.2SCOPE OF WORK LMS SOFTWARE LICENSE
A.3COST OF SERVICES LMS SOFTWARE LICENSE
A.4OPTIONAL ITEMS LMS SOFTWARE LICENSE
A.5BALANCE OF LINE DISCOUNTS LMS SOFTWARE LICENSE
A.1FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENTS MATRIX LMS SOFTWARE LICENSE
This attachment is to be completed by Respondents responding to Item #1 for a learning management system software license, inclusive of open source options.
DIRECTIONS: Respond in the space provided next to each requirement with as much detail as necessary to allow Florida Gulf Coast University to evaluate its compliance with the stated requirement. Responses such as “complies” or “agrees” are not sufficient.
A.1 FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENTS MATRIX LMS SOFTWARE LICENSEUNIVERSITY REQUIREMENTS / PROPOSER RESPONSE
Responses such as “complies” or “agrees” are not sufficient.
SECTION A.1.1 FUNCTIONALITY OF LMS SOFTWARE FOR DEVELOPERS & INSTRUCTORS
This section covers the academic and instructional design functionality of the proposed learning management system.
A.1.1.1 / ASSESSMENTS/ASSIGNMENTS
A.1.1.1.1ASSESSMENTS/TESTS
How does the LMS grade objective quizzes automatically and reveal results to students?
How in the LMS do you create and manage timed exams?
How in the LMS do you set extended or different times (or other parameters) for specific students or groups of students?
How in the LMS do you allow for student review of completed exams? What can students see during review (e.g. answer key, answer submissions, solutions, comments, etc.)
How in the LMS do you re-grade exam questions?
How in the LMS do support individualized learning paths through exams? (Student responses determine the difficulty of subsequent questions.)
How in the LMS do you give feedback on individual exam questions?
How are assessments released selectively based on date, time, student ID, and/or grade book criteria?
How in the LMS do you allow students to submit papers online and allow instructors to grade and give feedback online?
How many and what kind of quiz question types are available?
How in the LMS do you generate algorithmic quiz questions? Can the LMS generate practice problems using different values? Can algorithmic questions be imported from other formats?
How in the LMS do you print copies of exams for offline administration?
How in the LMS do you convert text documents into the quiz tool?
How in the LMS do you import publisher content?
How in the LMS do you set up and manage question pools?
How in the LMS do you randomize questions and answers?
How in the LMS do you incorporate math symbols and images into questions and feedback(e.g. MathJax)?
Describe how the testing tool performs item analysis (e.g. min/max scores, mean, average, question details)
How in the LMS can you give both pre-defined feedback and individual feedback to questions?
How does the autosave feature within the assessment work?
Describe the features and function of surveys within the LMS.
Describe how the LMS reports support statistical analysis of assessment results.
Identify the peer review tools which are available in the LMS.
Are student self-assessments possible, and if so, what types of self-assessments does your LMS provide?
What file types can be submitted and what is the size limit of files that can be submitted?
How in the LMS can the grade book integrate with various SISs, specifically Banner?
Does the LMS API integrate the gradebook with 3rd party solutions such as CourseCompass, WebAssign, eInstruction and LON CAPA? List all third party solutions with which the grade book integrates.
How can assessments, either individual assignments or student learning outcomes for the course, be exported to another course and in what formats?
Describe how your system enables mapping of learning outcomes and what kind of course, program and institution-wide analysis is possible.
How in the LMS can conditions (i.e., hide/show dates) be set for multiple students or groups in the same assessment?
How in the LMS are audio and video embedded into assessments?
How in the LMS are proctor passwords and other techniques setup and maintained to ensure assessment security?
A.1.1.1.2DROPBOX
How in the LMS do you set up and manage dropboxes?
How in the LMS does the dropbox integrate with the gradebook and rubrics?
How in the LMS do students submit Web pages and collaborative projects embedded with audio, video, and graphics?
A.1.1.1.3GRADEBOOK
How in the LMS do items created in the grade book get populated on the calendar and vice versa?
How in the LMS does the grade book reveal all of the data for an individual student within a course at once?
How in the LMS is the grade book set up for points-based grading? For weighted grades?
How in the LMS is the grade book setup for satisfactory and unsatisfactory, pass and fail, or other conditional grades?
How in the LMS does the grade book allow for categories that are not part of the grade calculation?
How in the LMS does the grade book display formulas for customized grade calculation?
How in the LMS are grades entered into the grade book?
How in the LMS is a grade book from one course copied to multiple courses or course sections?
How in the LMS does the grade book tabulate extra credit?
How in the LMS does the grade book accommodate excusing a student from an assignment?
How in the LMS are assignment submissions dates setup and maintained for view within the grade book?
Describe how the grade book supports features that enable attendance tracking and notification alerts for at-risk students (i.e. have not logged in to start or are not active)
How in the LMS does an instructor display, print, and export a course roster?
How in the LMS can a grade book for a course be exported to and imported from Excel?
How in the LMS are group projects submitted and graded? Can a single assignment be submitted for a group? Can the grade be distributed to all group members? Can group members be graded individually?
Describe how grades can be batch released and distributed to students based on a date or course editor action.
A.1.1.1.4RUBRICS
How in the LMS are rubrics integrated with the grade book?
How in the LMS does the grade book assist or support in designing rubrics?
How in the LMS does the grade book assist or support the sharing of rubrics to other courses or course sections?
How in the LMS are rubrics used for grading essay questions within an online assessment?
How in the LMS do you grade with a rubric without having it attached to an assignment or student submission?
Describe how the LMS supports the use of portfolios to document student learning.
A.1.1.1.5STUDENT TRACKING
Describe the tracking features, and how often data is refreshed.
How in the LMS are student profiles visible to instructors? To other students?
How in the LMS are user photos added to profiles?
How in the LMS is tracking data used for automated communication or feedback to students?
What tracking reports are available? Detail the views and queries for instructors.
How in the LMS do instructors track ungraded items/assignments
A.1.1.1.6THIRD PARTY TEST MANAGEMENT
How in the LMS do you setup and manage browser lockdown?
List all third party testing tools that your LMS supports (e.g. Respondus).
How in the LMS do you import and export items in QTI format?
A.1.1.2 / COMMUNICATION
A.1.1.2.1 ANNOUNCEMENTS
How can students view announcements, including emergency notifications that can interrupt the course?
How in the LMS are announcements configured and managed?
How in the LMS are audio and/or video content included into announcements?
How are announcements displayed?
How in the LMS are announcements scheduled?
How in the LMS are announcements sent and/or received: e.g. email, SMS, Social Networks?
How in the LMS are announcements copied to new courses?
Describe features of the HTML editor and the character limitations for announcements
How in the LMS can students edit active announcements?
A.1.1.2.2 CALENDAR
How in the LMS is a calendar shared across multiple course sections?
How in the LMS is a calendar exported from one course and used in another course?
How in the LMS are calendar event start and stop times set up and managed?
Describe how users can share their LMS calendar with external calendar applications e.g. Google, Outlook
A.1.1.2.3 CHAT
How in the LMS does an instructor have a simultaneous chat presence in multiple courses or course sections?
Describe your LMS live chat features, and how log files are captured and made available?
A.1.1.2.4 COMMUNITY NETWORKING
How in the LMS is RSS used to send notifications of updated content to students?
Describe the suite of communication tools your LMS offers, including social media integration.
A.1.1.2.5 DISCUSSION FORUMS
How in the LMS do you set up, manage, and use threaded discussions?
How in the LMS do you search threaded discussions?
How in the LMS do you set up and manage groups within threaded discussions?
How in the LMS are users alerted to unread discussion posts and unread comments?
Describe the options for WYSIWIG or HTML editing in the discussion tool.
How in the LMS does the discussion forum integrate with the grade book?
How in the LMS are both read and unread discussion posts displayed?
How in the LMS can discussions be graded?
How in the LMS can discussions be peer rated and/or peer reviewed?
How in the LMS are conditions set for the viewing of discussion forums and posts?
How in the LMS do grading rubrics integrate with discussions?
How in the LMS are anonymous postings permitted?
How in the LMS can participants have private discussions that cannot be viewed by the teacher?
Describe what discussion board properties may be changed after submissions have been made.
How can conditions (i.e., hide/show, dates) be set for multiple discussions at the same time?
How in the LMS can students attach files (Word, pdf, mp3, video, etc.) and embed links to discussion posts? What are the size limitations for discussion post attachments?
How in the LMS do you perform a comparative analysis on discussion forums?
How in the LMS do you perform plagiarism checks on discussion posts and replies?
A.1.1.2.6 IM ENABLED
How can students and faculty see who is logged into a course(s) and use IM to communicate?
Describe the built in instant messaging capability. For example, does it permit file sharing, two-way video, whiteboard, etc.?
How in the LMS does a user hide his/her presence from the IM tool?
A.1.1.2.7 INTERNAL E-MAIL
How does the internal LMS e-mail integrate (forward, receive, reply to, etc.) with external e-mail systems/accounts? Can LMS e-mail be forwarded to multiple external e-mail addresses?
Describe the e-mail tool WYSIWIG or HTML editor.
How in the LMS is “spell checking” accomplished for narrative fields??
How in the LMS are incoming and outgoing e-mails archived?
How in the LMS are archived e-mails browsed and searched?
How in the LMS are rules for e-mail setup and maintained?
How in the LMS are e-mail folders setup and maintained?
Describe how you would set up an email to be sent at a predetermined date and time.
A.1.1.2.8 SMS/TEXT MESSAGING
How is text messaging built into the LMS?
A.1.1.2.9 SOCIAL MEDIA INTEGRATION
How in the LMS do students create social connections?
With what social media sites does your LMS integrate, and describe the scope of this functionality (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Second Life)?
A.1.1.2.10 TEAMS
How in the LMS are teams created by teachers? How in the LMS are teams created by students?
How in the LMS are teams randomly or selectively created and balanced?
How in the LMS do teams share content and files?
How in the LMS do teams perform collaborative editing of assignments?
How in the LMS do you display or deploy content to specific teams?
A.1.1.2.11 WHITEBOARD
Does the LMS have a built-in whiteboard? Describe its functionality.
Does the built-in whiteboard include an equation editor? Describe its functionality.
A.1.1.3 / CONTENT
A.1.1.3.1 BLOGS
How does the LMS Blog tool function?
How in the LMS do students comment on and/or peer review each other’s blogs?
How in the LMS does the blog tool integrate with the rubric tool?
How in the LMS do you publish blogs in a way that doesn’t require LMS login for viewing?
How in the LMS do students and/or instructors setup and maintain blog privacy?
How does the blog tool integrate with the gradebook?
Does the blog have a WYSIWIG and/or HTML editor? Describe the functionality.
A.1.1.3.2 BOOKMARKS/GLOSSARY
How in the LMS do you create and maintain a glossary?
How in the LMS do instructors and students setup and maintain bookmarks within the course?
A.1.1.3.3 COPYING CONTENT
Describe how instructors can copy (clone) from an existing course to a new (blank) course.
How in the LMS is content shared among courses?
How in the LMS are components of a course packaged (exported) for import into other courses within the LMS or to other LMS platforms?
How in the LMS is an entire course packaged (exported) for import into other LMS platforms or repositories?
A.1.1.3.4 COURSE MANAGEMENT
How in the LMS can two or more course sections can be open in the same browser?
How in the LMS do course editors manually add and delete users?
How in the LMS do course editors activate and deactivate course sections?
How in the LMS are assignment edits performed across multiple courses or course sections?
How in the LMS are multiple files uploaded to a course? To multiple courses or course sections?
How in the LMS are fonts set within a course?
How in the LMS do course editors backup courses? Archive courses?
How in the LMS are courses branded (e.g. custom interface) by a course editor? By the LMS Administrator?
A.1.1.3.5 MOBILE CLIENT
Which mobile systems does the LMS support (e.g. Android, iOS, RIM, Windows)?
Detail the functionality in the mobile client.
Is ubiquitous client mobile access a standard functionality with the LMS? If not, describe the pricing model that enables ubiquitous client mobile access.
A.1.1.3.6 ONLINE JOURNAL
Describe the LMS journal tool.
Describe the Journal’s WYSIWIG or HTML editor.
A.1.1.3.7 ONLINE MARKING TOOLS/NOTES
How in the LMS do students make notations within a course?
A.1.1.3.8 SEARCH FUNCTIONALITY
How in the LMS do students perform simple and/or advanced searches within a course? Across multiple courses?
Detail any added functionality in your search tools.
A.1.1.3.9 STUDENT/FACULTY PORTFOLIOS
How does the LMS support single sign-on access to leading portfolio solutions (e.g. LiveText)?
Describe, if applicable, your solution’s portfolio tool within the LMS.
What options does the user have to keep their portfolio accessible after this period?
If a portfolio tool is a feature of the LMS, what are the per user storage limits?
If a portfolio tool is a feature of the LMS, can the portfolio system be expanded or enhanced?
If a portfolio tool is a feature of the LMS, how can all and/or part of a portfolio be accessed publicly (without requiring LMS login)?
A.1.1.3.10 SYLLABUS
How in the LMS does the syllabus template or syllabus wizard function?
How in the LMS can the syllabus template or syllabus wizard be customized to the institution’s needs?
List the file formats that an instructor can upload as syllabi (e.g. .doc, .docx, .pdf, etc.)? Are there any limitations, special settings, or requirements associated with any of the supported file formats?
Describe any additional syllabus functionality found within the LMS.
A.1.1.3.11 WIKIS
How in the LMS are wikis or wiki posts accessed publicly (without requiring LMS login)?
How in the LMS does the wiki tool integrate with the LMS grade book?
How in the LMS does a student create and manage wikis within a course?
How in the LMS does an instructor create and manage wikis within a course?
Describe the functionality of the wiki tool within the LMS (e.g. versioning, HTML editor, participant roles).
A.1.1.3.12 WYSIWYG EDITING
Is the WYSIWYG editor within the LMS based on another editor (e.g. Tiny MCE, FCKeditor, etc.)?
Does your LMS provide an HTML editor for creating or editing web page files? Describe the extent of its functionality.
Does your LMS provide an equation editor? Describe the extent of its functionality?
How in the LMS does the WYSIWYG editor provide a drag and drop environment for users?
How in the LMS are custom banners and icons on a course homepage, header, footers, etc. added and maintained?
Describe any additional WYSIWYG features within the LMS to be considered.
A.2 SCOPE OF WORK LMS SOFTWARE LICENSE
DIRECTIONS: Describe in detail how the Respondent will accomplish implementing the solution in order to complete required service. Each of the five (5) sections below must be documented to provide independent detailed information to allow the committee to score each component separately.Timelines should be based on a contract issue date of July 1, 2012.