Maricopa County Community College District -
Course Management Systems
Friday, May 25, 2007
Fall 2007 Courses Created
The Fall 2007 courses will be created over the Memorial Day weekend. The process will start on Saturday morning (05/26/2007). This initial course creation for Fall 2007 will create just over 5,600 courses in Blackboard.
Note: For Complete Building Block Schedules, see below.
2007 July - 12th - Grade Export Building Block; 16th - Learning Objects & ClearTxt
2007 Aug - Aug 9 - 11:00pm - 2pm: File Server Maintenance, Minor Infrastructure Maintenance
2007 Dec - No upgrade planned
2008 May - Upgrade to 7.3 & Content System, Replace SQL Server/Hardware Environment
2008 Aug - No upgrade planned
2008 Dec - No upgrade planned
2009 May - Upgrade to New Version, 8.0?
2009 Aug - No upgrade planned
2009 Dec - No upgrade planned
Academic Calendar
Summer 2007
- Summer I (5 wk): 5/29 - 6/28
- Summer I (8 wk): 5/29 - 7/19
- Summer II (5 wk): 7/2 - 8/2
Fall 2007
- Faculty Accountability Wk: 8/13 - 8/17
- Classes: 8/18 - 12/9
- Finals Wk: 12/10 - 12/13
- Grades Due: 12/18
Winter Break: 12/24 - 01/01/2008
Spring 2008
- Faculty Accountability Wk: 1/7 - 1/11
- Classes: 1/12 - 5/4
- Spring Break: 3/10 - 3/16
- Finals Wk: 5/5 - 5/8
- Graduation: 5/9
- Grades Due: 5/13
Building Blocks Install / Upgrade Schedule
Final Grade Export - July 12, 2007 - Development and Testing of this Building Block should be completed soon. Installation would occur shortly afterwards. Monitoring/Testing would continue throughout Fall to ensure that it is ready for Fall final grades.
Learning Objects - July 16, 2007 - "Early Adopter" program in Production SummerII & Fall 2007, Full Production Spring 2008
ClearTXT - July 16, 2007 - "Early Adopter Program" in Production SummerII & Fall 2007, Full Production Spring 2008
Wimba Voice Tools - July 2007 - May 2008, continue ASP. May 2008 Move to locally hosted server. Actual dates, TBD.
Upgrade History
2007 - May: Upgrade to 7.1, Replace File Server, Increase File Storage, Split web/app across network switches, Veritas file system
2006 - Dec: Applied Bb7 SP 1 HotFix 4
2006 - June: Installed Bb7 in New Hardware Environment. Bb63 Environment available for archive purposes.
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