Friday, April 06, 2007

It Begins...

Blackboard Administrators
Key activities for Blackboard 7.2 upgrade


May 10, 2007:
Last date to update courses scheduled for migration from Bb6

  • Reviewed courses for migration (FA06 and beyond)
  • Standardized course IDs for courses to be migrated if necessary
  • Facilitated clean-up of courses scheduled for migration. The less data we migrate, the faster it will be.

Week beginning June 25:

  • Attend one-day training for Primary Administrators or Attend one-day training for Backup Administrators

Explore-related tasks (no specific date)

  • Verify archives of Explore courses
  • Schedule time to restore archived Explore courses to new system
  • Monitor incomplete students on Explore – after full Go Live (August 15) on new system, these should be finished on new system

June 1: Portal-related tasks

  • Identify portal modules for migration
  • Review college tab layout
  • Review current branding

Before Faculty and Staff Go Live

  • Review manually created users in Bb6 and identify any needing recreation
  • Review current VCCS Blackboard documentation
  • Review Course ID standards
  • Review privileges associated with different system roles in Explore
  • Continue familiarizing yourself with new features of 7.1 and 7.2

July 1: Go Live for Faculty and Staff
Post Faculty/Staff Go Live tasks

  • Verify course integrity
  • Verify content system items
  • Verify portal configuration
  • Add manually-managed users
  • Request batch creation of Fall courses or manually create Fall courses
    Strongly recommended
  • Continue training faculty on new discussion board

August 15: Go Live for Students
Strongly recommended

  • Train students on new discussion board

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