Hi to all,
We're running Bb 5.5 on Solaris and we are beginning to run into
housekeeping limitations within Blackboard and I'm seeking some
advice on how other institutions grapple with some of the problems we
experience in managing our rapidly growing Bb databases.
1. We have hundreds of courses in Blackboard but we have no easy way
of determing which ones are active, and how active they are. I would
like to be able to run a report (online or in batch I don't mind)
that reported across a selection of subjects (one, some, many, all)
some of the data that is available in Course Statistics, such as
number of hits between choosen dates, and to produce the report in a
form that could be loaded up into Excel for some further
manipulation. (I don't want pie charts, just numbers)
Does anyone know how this can be done, or even if it can be done?
2. Some of our courses consume enormous amounts of disk space. Our
top 15 courses in space allocation terms total some 10.5Gb. (Hard to
believe, but true.) We want better ways of tracking this useage and
to map it over time so we know where to focus our efforts when trying
to manage the backoffice aspects of Bb.
Is anyone else running into these issues, and how is your institution
dealing with these issues?
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Simon Housego
Lecturer,
Institute for Interactive Media & Learning
University of Technology, Sydney
Ph 61-2-9514-1661
Fx 61-2-9514-1666
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