Creating an LMS RFP

Creating an LMS RFP

Building an RFP requires considerable attention to detail since we are articulating and evaluating our education and technology needs by listing the essential elements we will require from an LMS.

Below are General Topics to Consider as Well as a Few Recommended Features in Each Category

The features articulated below are provided to give you an idea of the scope of the project and the breadth of functionality that needs to be considered.

  • Collaboration and Communication Tools
    • Allow faculty to communicate with students from within course dashboard
    • Provides synchronous and asynchronous workspaces for students
    • support automated personalized emails when a student: completes an activity, fails to complete an activity by a certain date, or performs above or below a performance target?
  • Course Management
    • provide native tools to copy course structure and settings into additional versions of a course
    • Multiple feedback options for student assignments (i.e., audio, video, or text)
    • allow instructors to drag and drop content from their desktop directly into modules
    • Course designs can be shared and templated for re-use
    • integrate with social networking sites
  • Mobile
    • Responsive web design: page layout adapts based on screen size
    • Students can visualize and manage workload across courses in mobile app
    • Offline grading for instructor
    • Native mobile app for students
  • Student Monitoring and Retention
    • Customizable course dashboard based on instructor preference
    • Detailed student progress available from course dashboard
    • View student risk breakdown by area (i.e., assessment, participation, or social)
  • Learning Analytics
    • Course analytics dashboard for student progress and engagement
    • Email students directly from course engagement dashboard based on performance
    • Longitudinal reporting on usage of the LMS
    • View curriculum and assessment alignments
  • ePortfolio
    • ePortfolio for students to collect, collaborate on, and present evidence of work, practical skill demonstrations,
    • Students retain access to ePortfolio materials for life
  • Content Management
    • allow users to preview objects before downloading or loading them in the system
    • provide a reliable built-in document viewer which enables faculty to make multiple annotations in the same section of a document
    • have a built-in accessibility checker to ensure HTML content in a course is easy to consume with a screen reader
  • Accessibility
    • adhere to W3C WCAG 2 AA
    • demonstrate functional accessibility within the solution
    • provide screen magnification, zooming, color contrast, keyboard-only navigation or support for individuals who are blind or low vision
    • conduct usability testing with persons with disabilities
    • Keyboard-only navigation
    • Dyslexia reading font
    • Closed captioning capabilities for native video
  • Data Access
    • provide data access within the platform? What data is included as a part of this?
    • capture and report on event driven data
    • enable analysis of data in near real-time to allow instructors to make timely, evidence-based decisions
  • Technical Standards for Interoperability
    • Active certifications on IMS standards (including LTI)
  • Security
    • LMS vendor has ISO 27001 certification
    • monitor security of data through a security information and event monitoring system