I am planning on using the Moodle I designed for this class to encourage the community college to explore making the switch from Blackboard. Right now, they are switching to Blackboard Learn, the newest version, and it has made quite a few improvements. It is still overly complex and confusing for non-technical users.
Moodle is far more intuitive from what we've seen, but the Blackboard setup has some significant advantages.
- Blackboard course shells are automatically created for each course section
- Each student registered to a course section is auto-enrolled in that shell
- Sign-in to Blackboard is automated as an option from the integrated college login area
- Template shells can be created and assigned to courses per department
Without being able to put a Moodle trial on an equal footing, I would be unlikely to make much headway. The questions I would ask would relate to resolving these issues, and if they experienced any similar difficulties.
I do remember Blackboard being very easy for the student to access. I also remember seeing the teachers struggle with using Blackboard. I have never used Blackboard from the teacher's perspective but I still think that Moodle is more user friendly.
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