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Becky I think you should also consider whether you want to be locked into a proprietary closed-source system with a licence fee that may dramatically increase and from which it is difficult to move teaching materials (WebCT) or whether you want to employ a system with an active and open development community who support the open standards recommended by the likes of JISC and BECTA. I realise that my reply is slightly skewed in favour of Moodle but anecdotal evidence suggests that many institutions are looking to move away from WebCT or Blackboard. Indeed, The University of Highlands and Islands are one of these institutions; they are moving from WebCT to the truly wonderful Bodington open source VLE. Adam -- Adam Marshall. OUCS, 13, Banbury Rd. Oxford OX2 6NN. Shameless plug: Use the Bodington VLE <http://bodington.org/> http://bodington.org Cheese of the month: Cheshire (not to be underestimated) _____ From: Virtual Learning Environments [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Rebecca Barrington Sent: 06 May 2005 13:56 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [VLES] Technical support for VLEs Hi We are currently trialling WebCT and Moodle at South Devon College at the moment and hope to make a decision about which one to go with by the end of this month. I was wondering what the level of technical support is for each. By this I mean Computer Services support to deal with maintenance, fixing any issues or customising systems. We will have a separate administrator who will deal with course creation, user accounts and general user issues. For those of you using either WebCT or Moodle, how much technical support do you have? Do you have a person devoted to the VLE or is it part of your computer services provision? Thank you in advance!! Becky Rebecca Barrington ILT Facilitator South Devon College **************************************************************************** **** This email and any attachments may contain information,which is confidential to South Devon College. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately by replying to this email and then delete the email without making any copies or using it in any way. South Devon College accepts no legal responsibility for the contents of the message. Any views expressed in the message are those of the sender and may not reflect the views of the college. Although any attachments to the message will have been checked for viruses before transmission, you are urged to carry out your own virus check before opening attachments, as South Devon College accepts no responsibility for loss or damage caused by software viruses. ***************** List information: ***************** Remember - replies go by default to the entire list. Access the list via the web on http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/vle.html To unsubscribe, email [log in to unmask] with the message: leave vle ***************** List information: ***************** Remember - replies go by default to the entire list. Access the list via the web on http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/vle.html To unsubscribe, email [log in to unmask] with the message: leave vle