The Virginia Community College System (VCCS) is planning to shut-down the Blackboard 6 servers permanently on Friday, January 25. If you have any old Blackboard courses or organizations on the Bb 6 servers and you want to keep their content, you have until Friday, January 25 to export/import that content from Bb6 to Bb7. Remember that all of your Bb course and organization content from SP 07, SU 07, and FA 07 has already been migrated to the Blackboard 7 servers.
If you need another Bb 7 course or organization shell to use so you can complete the export/import process for old courses, send our NOVA Bb Administrator an email requesting the Bb 7 course shell (Michelle Gee mgee@nvcc.edu). Remember that you already have your SP 08 Bb course shells in Bb 7 and many of you have already completed the export/import process from Bb6 to Bb7 for those courses.
Use the print or video demo to help you move any content from the Bb6 servers to the Bb7 servers.
- Use the print directions found at http://www.nvcc.edu/home/nvsimpc/bb/exportimport.mht or
- Use the video demo found at http://tac.nvcc.edu/robert/blackboard6_7/blackboard7.html
- You need the Flash Player plug-in for the video to work. If you are using the most recent Explorer, it comes with Flash. If you need to download it, you can get it at http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash&ogn=EN_US-gntray_dl_getflashplayer or contact your campus Information Technology Manager.
Finally, make sure you have made your SP 08 Bb7 course “Available” after your students are enrolled. Enrolled students will not be able to participate in your courses until you make them “Available.”
To make a Bb SP 08 course available, go to the Control Panel > Course Options > Settings > Course Availability > Set Availability. Click the button next to the Yes under Set Availability and click submit.
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