I held several telephone meetings
with our Blackboard sale representative Ben Younce to discuss SaaS options. Ben also attended our annual technology showcase day. He met and talked with many of our faculty who use Blackboard and saw demonstrations of how they are using the Blackboard tools.
Ben arranged an initial investigation with me to
review what we currently use including building blocks. He asked for a list of the buildng blocks on our current self-hosted server. I keep a spread sheet of our building blocks, the version, and the order in which we update them.
I also created a project plan and I had a list of questions I sent to Ben. Those questions included:
1. Confirming we will be on SaaS Plus
2. Turning on Communities on our self-hosted production, test, and development servers.
3. Is there a limit on the number of building blocks I can have
on SaaS?
4. in SaaS, course and roster loading and updating – Banner
integration
Current practice:
·
All courses in Banner added 8 weeks prior to start of the
semester (Fall semester, same time as Summer)
·
Roster for current semester flatfile batch with cURL scripts 5
files, course - course, instructor bio - person, instructor assign – course
membership, student bio – person, student assign – course membership twice a
day 12:30 PM and 6:30 PM
5. CAS integration
6. GUI access
7. What version of
Learn will be run in SaaS?
8. Project plan –
review
9. Creating the url
10. Archiving
courses - Current we keep 5 years worth of course on
the system. For the 6th year,
courses are batch archived and zip files saved to College server
11. From Bb
timeline – details for
- Site Provisioning & Project Kick-Off for SaaS Plus Migration
- Migration Strategy/Planning for SaaS Plus Migration
- Client Side Preparations (Customizations, Auth, SIS, etc.)
- Test Migrations (Data Backups, Verifications, Q/A, etc.
12. Required GUI
course and training materials
13. Testing
(pre-prod environment) in SaaS?
14. What am I
forgetting?
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