We are still in the early days of using Bb - our most active 'users' use up
about between 6 and 10 Megs of space in the courses folder - these are sites
that have quite a large number of images - but not that many documents and I
imagine virtually no use of the digital drop box. This is an area where there is
potential I think for sites to grow rapidly if a large number of students start
storing or submitting work.
ben
"Curson Nigel Mr (PRS) k332" wrote:
> Hi all. Here at UEA we have just licensed Blackboard Level 1 and we are
> currently finalising our server specification.
>
> We've been looking at the recommended specs in the Blackboard 5.5 white
> paper but one of the things we've been wondering about is how much storage
> we need to allow for. We note that many institutions have experienced more
> rapid uptake than they were expecting, so we can take account of this, but I
> was wondering if people had a feel for what the average storage requirements
> of a course are. Is that a ridiculous question? I realize in some senses
> there's no such thing as a *typical* course but if you have any good ways of
> estimating course storage requirements, we'd like to hear about it. For info
> we're going for a unix implementation.
>
> Thanks in advance, Nigel
>
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