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[cdcarter]

McGill seems to use a LMS branded as "myCourses", apparently the newest label Blackboard is using for it's "Learn" line.

[ssalenik → cdcarter]

McGill switched to 'Desire2Learn' last summer as Blackboard no longer supports 'webCT', I think (access to old courses hosted on webCT is now very limited). 'myCourses' was the branding chosen by McGill... I think now they just call it 'myCourses2', after the switch.

[ivan_ah → ssalenik]

Hm... how come Desire2Learn hasn't been sued by Blackboard yet? Usually, as soon as a uni stops switches away to use a competing course management software, the competitor get sued based on the LMS patent: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=H...

UPDATE: they //did// get sued, but won, and the above patent is invalid now. Way to go! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackboard_Inc.#Legal_matters