September 20, 2016 - Review of Building Blocks, Cloud Connector, Course Clean-up

Met with Lukas Bb PM via Collaborate to discuss building blocks.

I learned that:
Blackboard IM – interface for integration with Enterprise IM, can be ignored

Browser Settings Tester – adds a link on your login page that allows you to run quick test of your browser compatibility with Bb Learn

Evaluation kit – you need to work with their support to get setup done on their side before you can setup B2 on Learn SaaS site. Please check with them the instructions for DB migration to ensure we will not lose any data

Financial Aid Reporting – it used to case a huge traffic on your DB on your local site. Please let me know when you will enable in on your SaaS site so I can ask our DBA team to monitor the extra load. We may need to add more resources to your database in order to be sure your environment has ready to handle the real workload once your SaaS site is released to your students

Internships.com B2 built by Bb - No longer supported by Blackboard; No known replacement which will need to be provided by Internships.com

McGraw-Hill Connect and Create – supported and already included in default Bb Learn installation

MERLOT Search – currently installed on your SaaS as it was migrated with your content but after our tests we found it is not currently working, will check internally if there is any project to get this B2 certified for SaaS

Paste from Word Mashup – replaced with new features in Learn SaaS

Pearson's MyLab & Mastering – supported and already included in default Bb Learn installation

SignUp Lists - This tool defines some custom Content items that can be used in a Blackboard course. Tool is opensource but already part of our default Bb Learn Installation. For more information please see: http://projects.oscelot.org/gf/project/signup/wiki/?pagename=FrontPage

Student Goal Performance Dashboard – enables you to create dashboard to see how students follows their plans, for more information please see: http://en-us.help.blackboard.com/Learn/Administrator/Hosting/Tools_Management/Goal_Performance_Dashboard

WebAssign – per official site version 2.2.0 is working with Learn SaaS. For more info please see here: http://www.webassign.net/manual/admin/c_d_blackboard.htm

xpLor Connector – has been renamed to Blackboard Cross-Platform Learning Object Repository

Dub Labs, Kaltura Integration, York Data Source Key Tool – Need to provide war files so they can be uploaded

B2s on Testing environment

Will match building blocks on both environments production and tests

Cloud connector and other B2s

You can see that cloud connector and other setups may be disabled for now. This is due to DB migration we proceeded. With this migration your Learn instance ID has been migrated too. Learn instance ID is used for identification for some services like cloud connector and could cause conflict with your local site. We will adjust these setups as part of setup update during “Live migration”.

Course removal and environment cleanup

You already started the environment cleanup before the test DB migration. You can now continue only on the SaaS site because for course migration you will specify which courses you want to get migrated exactly. Please note you can use SIS feed files to remove multiple courses at once to avoid doing it manually via GUI. Please remove also Summer and Fall courses you will want to get migrated to SaaS again