Friday, June 13, 2008

Blackboard and ANGEL status updates

Blackboard was downgraded successfully earlier this week. My thanks to David Bolton for his efforts to get the former organizations ("orgs") working as courses. I have been able to upload the content for most orgs starting with A-L, and the SBU Staff Council, with little problem. I would be further along, but I am taking the time to cleanup the extra clutter made by the Import process in each org's menu. All the course orgs start with an X in the course ID. I'll try to finish up the rest of the org content loading early in the June 16th week. Once that is done, please feel free to look around, make your org Available, etc. And if you find any problems, or have any questions, please e-mail via blackboard@sbuniv.edu

The noon hour on Friday the 13th was SBU ITS's first meeting with ANGEL via phone conference, with the goal of getting started on the implementation process. So far, things look good for beginning the online training very soon, and getting our test server up and running. This will initially be use for both Administrator training, as well as figuring out how to make things work as we want and need.

We've started down the road that leads from Blackboard to ANGEL.

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