Red - Greater interest to Faculty
Blue - My additional comments
Blue - My additional comments
Attended:
Blue Ridge, Central, Danville, J.Sargeant Reynolds, John Tyler, Lord Fairfax, Northern, Patrick Henry, Piedmont, Thomas Nelson, Southside, System Office, Virginia Highlands, Virginia Western, Wytheville
Did not attend:
Dabney, Eastern Shore. Germanna, Mountain Empire, New River, Paul D. Camp, Rappahannock, Southwest, Tidewater
Outages
We are still working with Blackboard on fine-tuning the database and this is necessitating some short and not so short outages. We recognize the inconvenience, but this is critical work that must be done before students are on the system. Keep an eye on the outages distribution list for notices of outages: https://lists.vccs.edu/lists/listinfo/vccs-outages
Outage on Learn.vccs.edu - bb6
We have scheduled an outage on Thursday, 13th December for learn.vccs.edu, from 12 a.m. to 4 a.m. Notices have been placed on learn.vccs.edu and my.vccs.edu.
Pirate language?
There were no objections to putting pirate language on blackboard 7. We’ll do this when it’s convenient. Obviously not a high priority.
Data Migration
ITS will generate a list of organizations and make a spreadsheet available to colleges for their review. This will include a “migrate now?” column.
All organization from TNCC will be migrated beginning Dec. 20, 2007. They should migrate with the students and faculty members. Be sure to check when you see it appear in your Bb 7 Organization Module. You may have to turn the module on by clicking on Modify Contents and then selecting My Organizations.
Single sign-on
We indicated that this might not work at Go Live. However, we think we have resolved this issue. There is a link on the test instance of My VCCS to test – https://dstst/vccs.edu/
CVCC is migrating early. Will their courses be ready by Dec 20?
We hope so. We would think so, but we can’t guarantee it.
What are Building block priorities?
Inez Farrell will coordinate. Not till first quarter of 2008.
What is the Bb6 lifetime?
Again, not 100% sure on this. Our priority as we begin the Spring semester will be Blackboard 7 performance. If it requires the resources that’s where we will put resources.
Do not count on having any access to Bb 6 after Dec. 20, 2007.
How will Bb6 archives be done?
How will Bb6 archives be done?
The final archives will be made available in the usual fashion.
Although we “grab” archives periodically throughout the term and at the end of the term it is important that faculty download and safely store their own archives. If you need help with this process please contact Jan or me as soon as possible.
How will the data migration work for students and faculty?
Students: On December 20, when they log in to learn.vccs.edu (bb7), their Fall courses will not initially be there. Colleges may place a module on Blackboard 7 indicating that their courses may be on bb6.vccs.edu. When a course is migrated, it will disappear from Blackboard 6, and subsequently re-appear on Blackboard 7.
Faculty: As with students, except that they will see their courses on Blackboard 6 as unavailable. They should not make them available again. Courses will also have “moving to Blackboard 7” and “moved to Blackboard 7” tagged onto them as appropriate.
URLs
Bb7.vccs.edu will continue to work, so as not to break anything.
What’s new and report card modules
What’s new and report card modules have been made available to college roles. If a college wishes to disable them for their college, they should contact ITS to do so.
TNCC sees no reason to “disable” these new features. Jan will be doing training on them or you learn more about them by going to Atomic Learning. Let us know what you think about the features after you’ve used them.
Has anyone had any reports of Vista or IE7 issues?
No reports.
File size limits
There appears to be a limit on course imports of 250 MB. We have a ticket filed with Blackboard on this.
Please contact me (Ruth) if you get any error messages concerning size limits.
Bb7 quick enroll – bookmarklet
As previously noted, there is now no Quick Enroll feature. I’ve created a bookmarklet to go some of the way towards meeting this need.
NOTE: This bookmarklet is for administrators.
Wimba issue
Wimba migration continues to prove problematic. Migrated content will play but may not be editable.
Subscribe to forum
Email subscribe in discussion forums doesn’t appear to be working for some. It is working for most. This is quite probably a spam issue.
Is there an easy way to clear posts without deleting the actual forum?
Within a forum, you can display all items per page, then Select All, then Remove. Aside from that, it’s not clear.
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