FAQ's

Your department’s DEPP representative will inform you of any changes that may affect you. The Digital Education Products Project webpage will also be kept up to date with project updates and you may also receive information in various Imperial newsletters. 

Primarily, the systems will be scored, weighted and evaluated against the user requirements provided by the stakeholders across Imperial, including its strategic needs. There will also be presentations. 

A period of discovery and requirements gathering has been completed.

Please speak with your Faculty / area’s LMS Learning Technologist or alternatively your DEPP representative. 

Content migration is subject to the individual strategies of LMS suppliers and export capabilities of our existing systems. Of those selected for invitation to tender, all are well experienced in migrating content within a university context. We will not know the full details of this as applied to an Imperial context until a successful supplier is chosen in summer 2025.

The project team and chosen supplier will assist in the data transfer aspects of migration. Independently, individual faculty areas will be responsible for preparing content for migration and quality assuring content post migration.

The project is scheduled to complete in 2026. 

Full implementation of the new learning management system is due to complete in autumn 2026.

There is a commitment to maintaining existing integrations with centrally funded systems e.g. systems that are already integrated with Blackboard Learn.

However, should a tool or service be a duplication of functionality with the new LMS, either centrally or faculty funded, there would have to be a reasoned justification for integration that, if not clear, would have to go the appropriate Teaching & Learning Board Sub-Group for consideration.

Yes, training and guidance documentation will be made available along with support from each area/Faculty’s Learning Management System Learning Technologists.