There’s a new course-management system in town.
Most Summer B online courses and all fall online courses will be hosted on Sakai, UF’s new course-management system.
Blackboard, the company that owns the software, will stop supporting WebCT Vista 8, the e-Learning system UF has used, in December 2011.
Fedro Zazueta headed up a UF committee that searched for a replacement.
The committee narrowed it down to three platforms: ANGEL, Moodle and Sakai. Sakai was chosen unanimously.
Sakai is an open-source platform, which means UF can customize it to better suit its students’ needs. It also means that although UF doesn’t need to pay for licenses, like it did with WebCT, it has to spend more money on a programming team, Zazueta said.
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