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Cal Poly professors can choose between PolyLearn and Canvas starting Winter 2020
The cloud-based system Canvas is set to fully replace Moodle — the system that powers PolyLearn — by Fall 2020.
Cal Poly moving from PolyLearn to Canvas in Winter 2020
By Winter 2020, Cal Poly’s web interface will start its transition from PolyLearn to a new service called Canvas. The PolyLearn system runs on an open-source learning platform called Moodle, while Canvas is run by Amazon Web Services (AWS), an…
Cal Poly’s firewalls aren’t as strong as they should be
As Cal Poly continues to be attacked, ITS is working toward developing new ways to combat the attackers.
Blackboard gets ax, Moodle to move in
Students and faculty at Cal Poly will say their goodbyes to Blackboard this spring, as Moodle steps in as the university’s primary learning management system. Whether or not these goodbyes are filled with sarcasm or reluctance depends on who is…