A Few More Notes on the Blackboard 7 Migration

Take Note . . .

Remember - Faculty will be able to work on their SP 08 Blackboard course shells in Bb7 and view FA 07 courses on both systems throughout the entire migration period. To access your SP 08 Bb7 course shell, use http://bb7.vccs.edu until December 20 and then use My Nova or http://learn.vccs.edu.

All faculty and staff who want to move content from a previous Blackboard course shell into their SP 08 Blackboard course shell must use the export/import feature and move the content themselves.

Please inform your students with incompletes in FA 07 Blackboard courses or in ELI courses that continue beyond December 20, that they will experience a short period (15 minutes to 2 hours) sometime in that two week period where their course will not be available. We will not be able to tell them exactly which day that will be because the VCCS is migrating all of the VCCS courses at once during that time period.

After January 4, Bb 6 may no longer be available, so if faculty have incompletes for students from prior semesters and want to keep a record of their grades in Blackboard, you will need to export the gradebook into an Excel spreadsheet to keep a record.

If you want to use a single Bb course site for multiple sections (i.e. nursing) or courses, such as combined ADJ107/SOC236, you will need to contact Michelle Gee mgee@nvcc.edu , so Michelle can setup a special batch enrollment.

For ENG 111/9, you will now see two courses in Bb 7 – one for ENG 111 and one for ENG 09. If you do not want to have the two different Blackboard courses, then keep ENG 09 unavailable and use only the ENG 111.