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Hi Neil,
This was discussed at the ScotBUG meeting in Glasgow on Friday.
I think most ex WebCT clients won't jump yet, as true feature parity
isn't out yet and not planned until at least 9.1 if not 9.2 (depending
if you are on CE or Vista).
Some of the braver Blackboard classic clients were talking of upgrading.
I think Durham will - we are certainly planning to make the move, but
have a few bugs - notably issues with tab groups and errors in the XSS
work-arounds that are causing us concern at present.
We have the released version of 9 running on a test box and are
beginning the discussions with our users.
Malcolm.
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Dr Malcolm Murray
Learning Technologies Team Leader
IT Service
Durham University
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Subject: Re: Upgrading to Blackboard version 9
Our view at St Mary's is that the timescale is now to short to upgrade
during this summer. (I understand that v9 isn't even out yet?). In any
case it appears to be v10 that will bring the big benefits so we are
going to stay with v8 for next academic year and hope that we can go
from 8-10 the year after, but this may be optimistic
Martin Scarrott
Acting Director of Information Services & Systems St Mary's University
College, Twickenham Waldegrave Road
TW1 4SX
020 82402304
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From: Blackboard/Courseinfo userslist on behalf of Neil Penry
Sent: Mon 09/03/2009 14:25
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Subject: Upgrading to Blackboard version 9
Is anyone out there planning on upgrading to version 9 in the near
future? I would be interested in hearing of anyone who has made a
decision not to upgrade this summer (and why) and also if anyone is
planning to upgrade (and any particular issues they had to consider).
Neil
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