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1. Blackboard
Migration
Sally Loan
Centre for e-Learning
Senior Educational
Technologist

2. Agenda
 Why are we migrating?
 When is migration happening?
 How long is the migration?
 When is the new system going live?
 What are the main differences in the new
system?
 Where can I get more information?
 Training period

3. Why are we migrating?
 Blackboard end of life support has
reached
 No support for the system
 Current version is old and cannot support
social and open learning
 New system is more user-friendly, better
mobile experience and enhanced with
more social and open learning

4. When is migration happening?
 GeNIEus new infrastructure upgrade
already happened in Dec 2011
 July / Aug 2012 upgrade of GeNIEus to 9.1

5. How long is the migration?
2 to 3 days downtime, target to perform
the migration on..

6. When is the new system going
live?
 Roll
out Blackboard Learn 9.1 in July / Aug
2012

7. Mass Briefings
 Awareness to Academic Staff
 End March

8. Mass Trainings
 Technical / Admin Support Staff
 End March
 Academic Staff
 End Apr / early May 201

9. What are the main differences
in the new system?
 Fostering student engagement
 Promote active collaboration
 Integrate visually engaging content
 Keep students connect
 Increase accessibility for the disabilities
learners
 Powerful search
 Bring real events into course instruction
 http://www.blackboard.com/resources/learn
/Bb_Learn_91_WhatsNew.pdf

10. Blackboard Affordance
 Improved interface
 Mashups integration, the system has the
ability to integrate web2.0 technologies
such as youtube, flickr, slideshare, Google
Docs within the Blackboard site

11. Where can I get more
information?
 Information is available at NIe-Learning
Site (http://lonline.nie.edu.sg)
 @ GeNIEus section

12. Links
 Blackboard NG9 http://slidesha.re/sXbVjs
 1- build course http://slidesha.re/zZX0dM
 2 - interact with students
http://slidesha.re/xs5HLf
 3 - collaboration http://slidesha.re/z7RUNT
 4 - Assessing your student (coming up
soon)

13. Blackboard Support Team
 Front line Support
 CUS, Service Desk (servicedesk@nie.edu.sg)
 Training of Blackboard
 CeL, blackboard@nie.edu.sg

14. Help
 Email to blackboard@nie.edu.sg

15. Support Vendor
 BeeNet