The Nine One Chronicles
BbWorld was a good week. Lots of good input on 9.1. I attended a full-day workshop on GUI Administration, and am now taking a GUI Admin Certification course. I want to know all I can about the Admin GUI before we launch in production.
We were also given an idea of the next 12-18 months of the Blackboard roadmap. (As always, "Subject to change without notice.") Good news there. Several of the 9.1 features that are still non-starters will be built out over the next months. I’m liking this.
After a series of meetings at BbWorld, we have our proposal from Blackboard for how to deliver Vista courses in a Courses module, after retiring the Learning Environment Connector (LEC), and it looks good. I hate to have such a positive post, but that’s just how I feel.
Today, I invited our 9.1 pilot Faculty to blog over the next months, sharing their experiences — good and bad — with course development and delivery in Bb. I hope I’ll get some takers.