[Using Sakai] LMS evaluations & comparisions?

[Steve Swinsburg]

Proponents of Moodle always use those download stats [1] as a way to say that Moodle is bigger than it probably is. As you've found out, it's wildly inaccurate. People could download then delete. If we had a similar stat system for Sakai running based on downloads, then I'd personally be running about a thousand servers. 

I do, however, like the idea of a very unobtrusive central reporting system that collects some stats about an installation. It could run once a week or similar, via a quartz job. At least then we know that the system is being used and what its size is. 

We can send out surveys and ask people to fill in their details at https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/PROD but in the end if they don't do it, they aren't counted. I know for a fact that there are many installations, some quite large, that are not being counted. If people really want to remain anonymous, make the reporting configurable via a property. I know some people will love and some people will hate this idea so I've filed a Jira for it and it can be discussed/voted on. https://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-22850

cheers,
Steve

[1] http://download.moodle.org/stats.php

On 31/10/2012, at 12:19 AM, Gregory Guthrie <guthrie at mum.edu> wrote:

> As I understand this data is fairly complex to really understand; one can try to count downloads, active installations, seats, course enrollments, … many different metrics.
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> And since Sakai has no self-reporting tracking like Moodle, so it is hard to really know who is doing what with it. The Campus Survey is very interesting data, but again is a self-selecting and pre-selected sample.
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> With Moodle every even small self-install or usage site gets counted. I saw some statistic that a big percentage of Moodle sites were below 10 users as I recall. From this I would think that actual Sakai usage as defined by delivered courses is higher than generally described.
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> From: Scott Siddall [mailto:siddall at longsight.com] 
> Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2012 7:56 AM
> Subject: RE: [Using Sakai] LMS evaluations & comparisions?
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> It’s good to have data so here’s more:    Sakai has 6-7% of the US higher ed market according to the Campus Computing Survey.   The data were gathered from about 500 US institutions of higher ed who chose to participate.
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>                 Scott
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