More on the Blackboard 7 Migration

Important New Information about Blackboard Courses!

1. Beginning December 20 when students click My Nova, they will access Bb 7 and NOT Bb 6. If students have an incomplete and need to continue working on their FA 07 course or if they are enrolled in an ELI course that continues beyond December 20, students will either see their course in Bb 7 or be told to go to http://bb6.vccs.edu/ to find their course.
2. Beginning December 20 and for the following two weeks, the VCCS will be migrating all FA 07 courses with students and grades included into Bb 7. For students still participating in a FA07 course, it will only be unavailable for a short period of time when it is actually being migrated from Bb6 to Bb7 – 15 minutes to 2 hours on one day during the two week migration window. This allows faculty to have access to this content as well as students with incompletes.
3. Faculty will be able to view FA 07 courses on both systems throughout the migration and work on SP 08 Blackboard course shells throughout the entire time, but during and after FA 07 courses are migrated to Bb7, they will be made unavailable on Bb6 and the title will be changed to say something like “MOVED TO Bb7,” so no changes can be made in Bb6 version.
4. January 10 all students will be batch enrolled into SP 08 Blackboard courses. They will not have access to SP 08 Bb courses until that time and only if the faculty has made the course available.
5. All faculty and staff can be working on their SP 08 Blackboard courses in Bb 7 right now. The migration of FA 07 Bb6 courses into Bb7 will not affect the use of Bb7 for working on your SP 08 Blackboard course shell. Until December 20, use the following URL – http://bb7.vccs.edu/ to access your SP 08 Bb couse shell. Use the same username and password that you currently use with your Bb 6 courses.
6. To move content into your current SP 08 Blackboard course shell from previous semesters use the Export/Import feature. Follow the directions posted at http://www.nvcc.edu/home/nvsimpc/bb/exportimport.mht or view the video demo at http://tac.nvcc.edu/robert/blackboard6_7/blackboard7.html ALL faculty must now do their own export/import because of the new method of creating Bb course shells.
7. After December 20, you can use My Nova on the NOVA homepage or http://learn.vccs.edu to access your SP 08 Bb course shells. If for any reason, you need to access Bb courses from previous semesters, you will use http://bb6.vccs.edu/ to access them.