1. 7 Steps to Take Before You Make the LMS Switch

2. Agenda Overview of today’s webinar Poll: Where are you in the migration process? Introductions Libby Lawrie: 7 Steps Bryan Bennett: itslearning’s solution Q&A Our new 16-page guide illustrating the 7 Steps to Take Before you Make the Switch

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4. Jill Davis itslearning Libby Lawrie itslearning Our Presenters Bryan Bennett itslearning

5. 1 Define Your Goals

6. Step 1: Define Your Goals Do you want to: Make it easier for teachers to do their jobs? Improve communication and collaboration? More effectively manage curriculum/assets?

7. 2 Assemble Your Team

8. Step 2: Assemble Your Team Gather champions from: IT and SIS Curriculum experts Project managers Database administrators Solution provider

9. 3 Review Course Design

10. Step 3: Review Current Course Design, Document Improvements What can your new LMS do beyond your current platform? Align content, resources to learning objectives Assessment (offline activities, ePortfolios) Facilitating the Four C’s

11. 4 Review Your IT Policies

12. Step 4: Review Your IT Policies Is your new LMS in compliance? Testing environment (sandbox) Security, user profiles, permissions Dashboard design guidelines SIS integration, single sign on (SSO)

13. 5 Define Your Scope

14. Step 5: Define Scope/Plan for Data, Content and Course Migration How do you manage your curriculum? Use course templates and planners Let teachers work with sandbox courses

15. Real-World Migrations Houston ISD (Mass Migration) Forsyth County (Crowdsourced) Harford County (Best Practice) Bartholomew (Teaching Strategies)

16. Real-World Migrations Houston ISD TX (Mass Migration) Forsyth County (Crowdsourced) Harford County (Best Practice) Bartholomew (Teaching Strategies)

17. Real-World Migrations Houston ISD TX (Mass Migration) Forsyth County (Crowdsourced) Harford County (Best Practice) Bartholomew (Teaching Strategies)

18. Real-World Migrations Houston ISD TX (Mass Migration) Forsyth County (Crowdsourced) Harford County (Best Practice) Bartholomew (Teaching Strategies)

19. 6 Develop Communication, PD Plans

20. Step 6: Develop Communications and Professional Development Plans Professional Development Collaboration, school-level support Use your LMS to manage and deliver Let teachers try it out

21. Step 6: Develop Communications and Professional Development Plans Communications Plan Define your message (type, approach, format) Who will deliver? To which audience? Create a schedule Identify resources needed Measure success

22. 7 Test & Troubleshoot

23. Step 7: Test and Troubleshoot to Ensure Go-Live Readiness Define your testing criteria Develop feedback process Prioritize and act on feedback Communicate changes made

34. “Ok. I get it. Now what?” itslearning: Two reasons to schedule a free product tour: 1.#1 Migration LMS 2.itslearning: its…different

35. #1 Migration LMS -Content -Process -Strategy -Scale Reason 1:

36. #1 -Content Process Strategy Scale Save the content! Don’t start over!

37. Content -Process Strategy Scale #1 200,000+ <2,000 23,000

38. Strategy: Four strategies for curriculum management Houston ISD Mass Migration Curriculum Guides as templates Planner with units/standards Custom planner fields Publisher content in Library Forsyth Jump started & crowd sourced Jump start Library Math and LA Sandbox courses by teachers Lots of teacher PDSchool-level support Harford Focused Best Practice Built best practice courses and replicate Use of standards aligned planner Focus on student- centered activities Bartholomew Universal Design for Learning Use Sandbox/Resource Courses Multiple means of representation Multiple means of action and expression Multiple means of engagement Content Process -Strategy Scale #1

39. Content Process Strategy -Scale #1

40. its…different -100% K-12. Period. (and K-2 Portal) -Easy teaching, personalization, and data -Custom planner / standards mastery -Implementation team Reason 2:

41. Interested? Next steps… (Fill out the survey form)

42. Questions? Bryan Bennett – 801-502-5897 bryan.bennett@itslearning.com bryan.bennett@itslearning.com