Blackboard Users,
Thank you for reviewing your course content. We are now confident that our test server reflects a reasonable reproduction of our Blackboard data (as it looked on May 14th). We are, therefore, ready to perform our “dress rehearsal” upgrade on the test server.
The test server will be shut down this evening around 7pm so that the folks at Blackboard can spend the next several days upgrading it to system 7.2.
When the test upgrade finishes next week, we will ask you to review your course content again to make sure that the upgrade process didn’t compromise anything. A few things may look a little bit different, but your course content should remain intact.
Thank you for your help and patience with the upgrade process.
Until next week,
Jennifer
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JENNIFER CLISTER
Blackboard & Technology Integration Analyst
305-284-3949
From: Clister, Jennifer R
Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 2:59 PM
To: '
Subject: Please review your course site (Upgrade Prep)
Blackboard Users,
We need you to quickly review your course content on our test server.
In preparation for the upgrade to Blackboard system 7.2 this summer we are going to do a “dress rehearsal” upgrade on a test server to ensure that the “real” upgrade process will run smoothly. The real upgrade is scheduled to occur between June 26th and July 5th.
We need your help:
- To be sure that the folks at Blackboard copied our data correctly, could you please look at the test server and verify that your course looks OK based on the content it had as of Monday, May 14th when it was copied. No updates made after May 14th will be reflected here: https://umiamitemp.blackboard.com (login info is the same as it is for the “real” UM Blackboard)
§ Make sure your courses were copied.
§ Course documents and assignments should be accessible (check at least a few)
§ Buttons and settings should be the same.
§ Etc…
- If you see anything wrong, please let us know right away. If it all looks good, you don’t need to do anything.
After we complete the “dress rehearsal” upgrade to system 7.2 (May 31st), we will ask you to check the test server again to be sure that the upgrade hasn’t affected your course content (the same course content you are verifying now). This will also give you a sneak peak at the new Blackboard system 7.2.
Thank you.
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JENNIFER CLISTER
Blackboard & Technology Integration Analyst
305-284-3949
