Top 15 most wanted tools

Table 2: Top 15 most wanted tools (1720 users sample). Name of the tool

Frequency Percentage

Discussion Forum 1076 62,56Course Management 866 50,35

File Exchange 818 47,56Student Tracking 802 46,63

Automated Testing and Scoring 751 43,66Online Grading Tools 743 43,20

Internal Email 741 43,08Group Work 740 43,02

Real-time Chat 730 42,44Self-assessment 712 41,40

Course Templates 692 40,23Authentication 687 39,94

Instructional Design Tools 670 38,95Calendar/Progress Review 651 37,85Customized Look and Feel 648 37,67

Table 3: Grades of compared LMSs for each tool used in analysis. The LMS grade for particular tool is the number of features of particular tool that are implemented in LMS under consideration. LMS

AN

GE

L 6.2

Blackboard

Academ

ic S

uite

Claroline 1.4

eCollege A

U+

Jenzabar Internet C

ampus

Learnw

ise

Moodle 1.5.2

Sakai 2.0

The L

earning M

anager E

nterprise

WebC

T V

ista 3.0

Authentication 9 8 3 1 0 6 5 4 2 7Automated Testing and

Scoring7 9 1 5 0 2 6 4 3 8

Calendar/Progress Review 9 5 0 7 1 4 3 8 2 6Course Management 8 5 0 7 3 0 2 1 6 9

Course Templates 7 8 1 4 0 5 6 2 3 9Customized Look and Feel 9 8 0 4 2 1 6 6 6 6

Discussion Forums 9 7 0 5 3 2 6 4 1 8File Exchange 8 9 1 7 4 3 2 6 0 5

Groupwork 9 6 0 8 2 1 5 4 3 7Instructional Design Tools 9 8 0 6 1 0 7 4 1 5

Internal Email 7 2 1 6 4 8 0 5 3 9Online Grading Tools 7 9 0 5 2 1 6 4 3 8

Real-time Chat 9 7 2 6 1 3 5 4 0 8Self-assessment 9 7 2 6 1 0 4 5 3 8

Student Tracking 9 3 1 6 2 1 7 0 5 8