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