Attachment A HE Specs.pdf
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- Solicitation number
- 5400026427
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- South Carolina
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This is a specifications document for a higher education learning management system (LMS) procurement for state and local institutions. The document outlines comprehensive functional requirements across multiple categories including course tools, instructor-student interaction capabilities, course design and organization functionality, student user interface features, instructor course management tools, administrative reporting capabilities, and system administration functions. The specifications detail required features such as in-course messaging and email, real-time communication services with recording capabilities, plagiarism detection, integration with third-party content providers (VitalSource, Cengage, McGraw Hill, Pearson), lecture capture tools, and accessibility compliance. The document establishes requirements for course shell creation, enrollment management, content repository sharing, rubric-based grading systems, and the ability to toggle between instructor and student views. Additionally, specifications include scheduling calendars, productivity tools, customizable landing pages, and group workspace functionality.
The specifications further require robust student tracking and analytics capabilities, including usage monitoring, time-on-task analysis, attendance tracking integration with gradebooks, and both standard and custom reporting options. Administrative requirements encompass user authentication through existing agency resources such as CAS, Shibboleth, LDAP, and single sign-on capabilities, SIS integration for automatic student data transfer from existing ERP systems, course migration tools from legacy systems, server-wide backup and archiving functionality, and site-wide learning outcomes definition capabilities. The document indicates these features should ideally be included in a Core Components Bundle, with additional functionality offered as supplemental modules. Bidders are instructed to identify for each feature whether it is available, whether it is included in the core bundle or offered as a supplemental module, and to provide descriptions of the proposed solution's relevant capacity.
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ATTACHMENT A
HIGHER EDUCATION & BUS/GOV UGU
Ideally the preferred features identified below will be included in the Core Components Bundle. For each feature or functionality, indicate (1) whether or not it is available, (2) whether it is a part of the Core Components Bundle identified or if it is offered as a supplemental module, and (3) a description of the proposed solution’s relevant capacity. Please be as succinct as possible in your response.
Course Tools
- In-course messaging and email capability
- File exchange (student upload of files from local computers) – variety of file types
- Attachment of files to all applicable student tools within LMS
- Real time communication services (webinar function and video teleconferencing, text chat, and audio), with the ability to record sessions
- Whiteboard
- Spell check and formatting capability for written communications
- Message alerts
- In-course announcements with option to send notification emails
- Notification options for events, in-course assignments/assessments/new content/changes/grades posted
(including the ability to opt-in to text message notifications)
- Peer review/assessment
- Ability to integrate with a photo roster
Functionality
- Instructor – student interaction, student – student interaction, and student to content interaction
- Provide a course shell for all course sections within a semester and allow for optional filtering of course import from registrar
- Manual course/organization creation – individual and batch
- Merging of enrollments
- Course copy of materials
- For each course section/organization, provide robust set of tools and services as documented in the other sections of this document
- Ability to export all tools set-ups to zip files for importing by others
- Course design/organization tools
- Templates for courses/organizations that instructor/leader can choose from
- Ability for instructors to grade all student activity within course (including rubrics)
- Rubrics tie the grade to the gradebook
- Accessibility compliance
- Accessibility checker on html editors
- Adaptive release of content (based on milestones, group membership, grades, time, etc.) with exceptions for individual users/groups
- Learning objects, files, content repository for sharing and reuse
- Ability to toggle between instructor view and student view
- Create groups within a course
- Course templates
- Learning module (with ability to enforce sequential interaction)
- Instructional design/modification tools (customizable graphics, content, assessment, syllabus, course navigation, etc.)
- Develop/align instructional standards to content/assessments
- Import of e-packs (packaged content from publishers)
- Plagiarism detection/reporting (the ability to submit a draft and final)
- Ability to integrate content from third party parties, especially inclusive access publishers (VitalSource, Cengage, McGraw Hill, Pearson, etc.)
- Ability to integrate web-based content (YouTube, SlideShare, Flickr, Vimeo, etc.)
- Ability to integrate third-party assessment/engagement tools (Voice Thread, Publisher LMS, etc.)
- Integrate with lecture capture tools (Ensemble, Echo 360, Tegrity, Relay, etc.)
- Integration with polling tools
- Integration with online library resources (e-reserves, etc.)
- Ability to specify roles (instructor, student, teaching assistant) in courses and to allow guest access
Productivity
- Scheduling calendar to include tasks and due dates
- System documentation and training resources (such as FAQ/help menu)
- Course/content copy and move functionality
- Changes made to assignments and activities in the calendar should update within courses and vice versa
- Ability to post video within messaging tool
Student User Interface
- Group work/group work space
- Self-assessment (to include rubrics)
- Ability to access grades
- Options for printing certain types of course materials/content
- Customizable landing page
- Student communication tools with options to remain individual/private or collaborative, either class-wide or in groups (journal, blog, wiki, discussion board, e-portfolio, etc.)
- Ability to post video within forums, assignments and quizzes
- Allow students to customize how their courses appear on their calendar and dashboard
Instructor Course Management
- Student tracking – tracking usage of course materials, time on task, and provide analysis/reporting for individual and aggregate usage
- Content page tracking
- Tracking of student attendance (physical and/or virtual) with option to include attendance in gradebook
- Administer assessments (tests, self-assessments, surveys) with option to use question pools, use multiple question types, randomize questions/answers
- Automated grading when applicable
- Import questions and/or tests from third party exam authoring software, publishers
- Compatibility with user monitoring tools and lockdown browsers (e.g. Respondus, etc.)
- Secure online grade book with filtered views
- Instructor ability to download student course work (batch and individual)
- Ability for instructor to grade student work offline, download/upload gradebook
- Ability for instructor to add/disable students within a course
- Ability to post video within forums, assignments, and quizzes
- Allow unique branding for all sub-accounts
Administrative Reporting
- Analytics for student progress and engagement
- Student usage analytics – tracking usage of course materials and provide analysis/reporting for individual and aggregate usage
- System usage metrics by course/organization, features, users (students/instructors), department/program/course ID etc.
- Student performance, progress, and success
- Authentication reports (student login information)
- LMS report management. Disclose the type and level of standard and custom reports offered, and discuss report content e.g., student statistics and instructor statistics, etc.
- Ability to see instructor edit event log on content
Administrative
- Administrator ability to add/remove/disable/modify users
- User authentication through existing agency resources (CAS, Shibboleth, LDAP and/or single sign-on)
- Course authorization
- SIS integration (ability to move student data from the institution’s existing ERP software at the point of student registration)
- Diagnostics reports
- Migration (move courses from old system to new LMS)
- Individual course conversion tools
- Ability to lock server to faculty and students, whilst still leaving accessible to administrators to perform required end of semester maintenance
- Ability to perform server-wide course backups both for disaster preparedness and for end-of-semester archiving and to easily move courses from development to live server
- Archiving and purging
- LMS report management
- System usage metrics by course/organization, features, users (students/instructors), department/program/course ID etc.
- Allow learning outcomes to be defined at a site-wide level, which can be linked to assessments and program goals across individual courses
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