Specifications include, but are not limited to:Arlington Public Schools (APS) is seeking the utility of a Learning Management System (LMS) to be accessed and used by students, teachers, other APS staff, and parents/guardians, as appropriate, (“the Users) our twenty- (24) hours a day, seven (7) days a week, three hundred and sixty-five (365) days a year. LMS responsibilities are shared between the Contractor and APS. Statistics on student registration, retention, graduation, and staff licensing and employment will be maintained and shared between APS and the Contractor. The Department of Instruction (DOI), located at the Syphax Academic Center at Sequoia Plaza, 2110 Washington Blvd., Arlington, Virginia 22204, is the lead group in utilizing and deploying this resource. B. The Contractor shall provide all training necessary for Users. C. The expectation is that all Users will be able to access and utilize all functions of the LMS as appropriate to their role, so differentiated access and permissions by role are required. Some staff roles in APS are unique, so flexibility to specify and structure customized role-based permission sets is required. D. The LMS and included support services must meet or exceed the following requirements for the Proposal to be considered: 1. The system must be able to export or share data generated within the LMS with external systems, specifically systems of record like SIS, SE and ERP 2. The system must be offered as a 100% hosted Software as a Contractor hosted software 3. The system must function effectively on a wide variety of environments and devices, including: Apple iOS, MacOS / OSX (including the Safari, Firefox & Chrome browsers), Microsoft Windows (including the Internet Explorer, Firefox & Chrome browsers) 4. The system must support trust based authentication via a SAML v2 IdP for all user types 5. The system must comply with the terms of the APS Student Data Use and Privacy Agreement E. APS is seeking a LMS that meets or exceeds the following criteria: 1. Integration ● support integration with resource providers [utilizing interoperability specifications such as Learning Tools Interoperability® (LTI®) and Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM)] ● integrate with G Suite for Education, Microsoft Office 365, and Apple’s iCloud Suite in addition to other collaborative platforms
