I thik we need to go back to canvas
We need to go back to canvas to give the teachers and students a better learning experience. The classy experience we had raised the academy above no far above the the others. It is sad because now it looks like Cisco is not the leader they are just like any other online learning system. The look of it does not do the great curriculum inside and it is hard to tell Cisco from Palo Alto or HP or Juniper. More importantly my students are lost, they are confused by the layout and lack of direction. Please reconsider the move to moodle. It still lacks everything that we initially moved to Canvas to gain. It is a big step backwards. I say Cisco Should just buy Canvas out from under that investment group and become a leader in education too! Cisco would do it way better. Please send this on to Chuck! He would agree!
Dwight Osborne
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Instructure is an excellent partner to the Networking Academy and Canvas is a great product. One of its strengths is the smooth and polished user experience. This is a testament to the terrific work of their product team that has been optimizing the experience for a decade.
Nevertheless, the strategic benefits of bringing the course management experience in house outweighed the many fine aspects of Canvas. There are two key reasons that drove this choice:
1. It enables the Networking Academy to expand its global reach. To expand our global reach, the NetAcad platform is transitioning to a federated architecture with multiple instances located across the world. Canvas is unfortunately not available in every region. We could not stay in Canvas while continuing to expand our global reach.
2. It allows the Networking Academy to be more responsive to changing dynamics in education. One example of this is the integration of Webex video conferencing and messaging into the learning experience to support distance learning. By bringing the solution in-house, we have been able to aggressively pursue this opportunity and will be able to release some of the first fruits in the coming months.There are other benefits to the new course management experience that are summarized on this page (https://www.netacad.com/portal/news/i/I-Jun24_Platform_Updates), but the most salient driver of the decision is how it enabled the Networking Academy to even more aggressively pursue our mission to empower teaching and learning in every corner of the world. For these reasons, the Networking Academy has no plans to roll back the course management experience to Canvas.
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I understand all the marketing that is coming out for Moodle and how it is going to improve our teaching but perhaps we should have waited to release until we knew we could actually do all that is being promised. Webex would be great but Zoom has already delivered and the extra time we need to try and get our delivery of content to 1/10th of what Canvas did will take away from the WebEx learning curve. Seriously, the amount of money and man hours spent on redesigning moodle to be better than Canvas would be better spent on buying the Canvas platform and become and educational technology leader. In fact it is the only way to make a dent in the advantage Zoom has at this point.
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Luke Young
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I strongly disagree. While the new Moodle based LMS doesn't look quite as nice as Canvas did in some areas, the new platform is much more streamlined. Students can see all resources on a single page, with links to the external curriculum.
The team at NetAcad have stated a number of times that the move to moodle was driven by their requirement for global reach, which Canvas could not support.
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Scott Christy
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I've used Moodle in my district for over 8 years so I'm used to it but like has already been said in this post, Canvas is FAR superior to Moodle. This is even more true since CISCO has chosen to disable many of the most useful and necessary features of Moodle like Assignment Annotation (similar to the Canvas Speed grader screen), the ability to make side blocks on the screen, the announcement tool, etc.
I know being that Moodle is open source it saves $$ vs paying for Canvas, but please at least give us the full tool set of Moodle features otherwise go back to Canvas.
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Dennis Frye commented
This new experience is not an improved experience and that sentiment is not due to merely a changed environment. Many of the streamlined approaches and tools necessary to effectively lead learning in my classes are simply "GONE." If this is a budget decision...pass along a user fee --- I will bear some of the financial costs.
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The inbox does not work. There is no speed grader. There is no Video capability. It takes multiple steps to create assignments. The amount of work for instructors has doubled. Please go back to Canvas.
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Go back to Canvas. The limitations of Moodle are causing me great stress.
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I think Cisco Systems should buy Canvas and take over the LMS market much like it has all the other great tech ideas. Ask Chuck Robbins to move ahead on this idea, he would so get behind this. Right now the Academy looks like every other academy that is using Moodle. Not exactly what made the Cisco Networking Academy great. Been using Moodle for three weeks and it is not a step ahead but a giant leap backwards. Let's be bold and buy Canvas!!! Let's do what Cisco does best and get the Academy looking like the next gen that we are trying to sell to the academies world wide. Moodle does not do what Canvas does and anything that you want to do in Moodle takes 3x longer and it still does not come out the way you want it too. My students are so lost in the new experience that I have had to repeat the the first two weeks of instruction. I am going back to the free version of Canvas just for the sake of my students. The lack of video has made my students wonder too. Sad times ahead.