Why Outsource LMS Services?
Reduce Capital Expenditures and Save Time. As your institution grows, so does its information technology demands. Campuses are seeing an increased growth in online learning, distance education, and eLearning technologies. Additionally, new trends in “hybrid” courses have pushed many campus Learning Management Systems into the realm of “mission critical” services with little or no increase in personnel or equipment funding.
Learning Management Vendors such as WebCT and Blackboard have developed new “enterprise” learning management systems to meet the growth of online learning. Unfortunately, these new enterprise systems require up to four times the amount of hardware and personnel as did earlier editions. Organizations must now dedicate hardware and networking resources to construct both production and pre-production environments for their online learning needs. Increasing an institution’s cost, this new hardware and more complex software require additions in personnel for database management, learning design, and network administration.
Why Contract with the CTDLC to Host your LMS?
- Customized Solutions for Up Time, Help Desk, SIS Integration, etc.
- LMS Hosting specialist.
- Service Provider for sundry services such as Learning Design, Course Conversion and Integration needs.
As a client, you will receive full management and administration of its application by our highly skilled team of LMS and network technicians. This enables you to focus on what matters most, content. The CTDLC is totally responsible for the integrity of the servers and data center equipment, meaning the operating system and all hardware issues including configuration and necessary periodic upgrades. This includes the implementation of all software patches and updates that pass our evaluations for increasing security and performance. We monitor our data center 24 hours a day 365 days a year, carrying out any day-to-day tasks required to ensure that it our applications are always in perfect working order.
But anyone can run gear and manage a server, so why use the CTDLC…
We entered the LMS Hosting arena with much caution. We spent months and continue spending time talking to project managers and coordinators for the largest installations across the country. It has been our goal to create our ASP solution to mirror the best and most efficient data centers in the country. We have spend an enormous amount of time devoting our top LMS project managers and technical leaders to looking at how integrations are being performed, how servers are being configured, how backups and restores are being dealt with.
Each vendor’s specifications for hosting are somewhat vague and rely heavily on institutional decisions as to “how much is enough.” We have seen the problems other institutions encounter include incorrect storage planning, server sizing problems, content migration problems, and integration issues. As we continue to discuss the “state of LMS ” with our peer data centers, we refine our understanding of the product, patches, and integration issues. We analyze and interpret this information and use it to help our customers as they make LMS decisions.
We feel that it is the combination of our dedicated LMS personnel and our knowledge of the LMS applications, backed by the technical power of our data center that gives the CTDLC an advantage in hosting these platforms. The CTDLC provides LMS ASP services that keep pace with the growth in online learning. By leveraging the CTDLC hardware and personnel you can eliminate many of the costs of upgrading systems, equipment, and personnel. The CTDLC ASP service allows you to migrate or build your online learning needs in an enterprise level data center specializing in LMS hosting, conversion, and support.
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