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--- Forwarded Message from "Read Gilgen" <[log in to unmask]> ---

>Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 16:54:16 -0500
>From: "Read Gilgen" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: #7643 Desire2Learn

Ouch!  Don't!  The UW System adopted D2L in place of WebCT.  We raised
the issue of unicode compliance at several face to face meetings with
company reps, and had a dickens of a time getting them to even
understand the difference between what we needed and "localized
versions" which was what they thought we wanted.  We've been told this
will be in a future release, but have no idea when, how well, if...

Then these CMS companies wonder why folks just wing it outside of a
CMS.

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--- Forwarded Message from Jack Burston <[log in to unmask]> ---

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>Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2004 18:07:49 -0400
>Subject: Desire2Learn
>From: Jack Burston <[log in to unmask]>
>To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum
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>In-Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]>

Please excuse the cross posting

Dear Colleagues,

Our institution in the process of selecting a new course management
system
and one of the short-listed options is Desire2Learn. I know only too
well
the shortcoming of Blackboard (another short-listed contender) with
regard
to Unicode compliance and the display/inputting of foreign language
scripts.
But Desire2Learn is an unknown quantity in this respect.  If any of you
have
had any experience with this system I would very much appreciate
hearing
from you about it.  With thanks in advance, Jack

--
Jack Burston, Ph.D.
Director
Foreign Language Technology Center
College of Liberal Arts
Rochester Institute of Technology
Rochester, NY 14623-5604

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