How To Embrace an LMS Migration In The Middle of an Academic Year

Learn how a small instructional design and technology team at an R1 university led their institution through an LMS transition from D2L to Canvas in the middle of an academic year. This presentation will highlight how they gained and leveraged broad institutional buy-in to train all faculty, made necessary policy changes, migrated courses using an automated solution, and developed new training experiences to facilitate the transition and foster continued growth. Attendees will leave this presentation with the ability to

• Identify key stakeholders for change
• Develop effective communication strategies to keep everyone connected
• Adapt training strategies that proved effective for the University of Memphis
• Identify automated solutions for migrating course content quickly and accurately
• Maximize their teams' strengths for effective execution
• Leverage vendor support to train a large number of faculty with a small team
• Develop solutions to barriers for effective transformation at their institution.

Other takeaways for attendees:
Attendees will leave this session with a thorough understanding of how an R1 university successfully transitioned to a new LMS in the middle of an academic year. This will include a detailed model for organizational change, training templates that could be adapted to their institution’s needs, and an outline of how vendor and institutional training can be leveraged together to produce high-quality and low-cost training experiences for faculty.