Upgrade Bb9 Ku Leuven 0 Introductie

TOLEDO: van 7.2. naar 9.0

in 2 dagen na 20 weken

voorbereiding

Blackboard BENE Usergroup Bijeenkomst 24 maart 2010 - Leuven

TOLEDO: Context

• Learning Portal for the KULeuven Association • Toledo (since 2001)

– ‘Toetsen en leren doeltreffend ondersteunen– Blackboard / Questionmark Perception /

Building blocks & integrations

• Bridge between– Staff & Student, Applications & Institutions:

1 University & 12 University colleges

Toledo - K.U.Leuven Associaton

Challenge 1: Scale & Use

• 1 University & 12 University colleges with a customized portal & specific branding

• More than 95.000 active users• About 32000 different users online per day• More than 17000 active courses• About 2300 active communities

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Challenge 2: Heavily Customized

Challenge 3: Integrations & Extensions

• Custom authentication & Shibboleth federation• Data management: Automatic provisioning with

students, courses & staff – Overnight synchronisation with administrative systems, – Webservice: real time synchronisation with ISP

• Links to learning tools trough Building Blocks– Group, Peer & Self assessment tool– Wiki & Blog service– Question Mark Perception (assessments)

• Links to other ICT-tools– Exchange webmail – ISP – Tolinto

• Links to repositories– Turnitin: plagiarism detection– Library (links to queries & articles)– Videolab (streaming video AVNet)

ADMINISTRATIVE DATA

Bb Idiomatic

AUTHENTICATION

Library

Community tool

Enrollment tool

Blogservice

LEARNING TOOLS

ICT TOOLS

REPOSITORIES

Parser

BB API’s Hib API’s

Wiki farm

QM Perception

Webmail

USolv-IT

Tolinto

Peer Assessm.

Mail Storage Intranet

VideoLAB

Shibboleth

IMS xml

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Building block Shibboleth

Shibboleth

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DatabaseWebservices

Single sign-on building block

Course Status tool

External users

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QMWise

Webservices

Information

RSS

Challenge 3: Integrations & Extensions

Turnitin

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The Assets

• 3 system engineers

• 7 (Blackboard) developers

• 3 software e-learning consultants

Macroplanning for the Upgrade

• Important Dates: – May 2009: Specification of the Functionality (Advisory Board)– October 1st 2009: Start of the final Preparations (Main Project)– December 21-22th 2009: Upgrade 1 eloV– February 13-14th 2010: Upgrade 2 TOLEDO

• Planning: categories week by week: (spreadsheet)– System engineers: Upgrade of the systems– Developers: - Upgrade of the building blocks

- Bugfixing for BB 9- (Stress)testing

– Consultants: - Specification of the functionality - Customization of the interface- Functional Testing- Manuals / Documentation- Promotion, communication & info

sessions- Training (support staff, users, helpdesk)

Presentations

• Upgrade your Blackboard 7.2 servers to 9.0 14h15–14h45 Jo Vanvoorden

• Upgrade your Blackboard building blocks to 9.0. 14h45-15h15 Wim Machiels

• Upgrade your Blackboard users(interface) to 9.0 15h15-16h Bert Coenen & Kenny Verbeke