Hi Mark,
I'm curious about this as I've connected my SP10 test system to 'the cloud' and am currently evaluating the new My Blackboard features; does this imply that 'the cloud' is hosted outside the EU? It appears to technically work (other than a few issues with our particular authentication), but clearly if it is hosted outside the EU this does make things rather complicated for us...
Thanks for sharing this.
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From: Blackboard/Courseinfo userslist [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Mark Gamble
Sent: 25 November 2012 09:05
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Subject: SP10 and My Blackboard
Hi All
If you, like me, were enthusiastic to see that Blackboard had at last embraced the notions of social constructivism, independent learning, learning sets, communities of practice and learning (having seen and been excited by the possibilities of My Blackboard at Antwerp....) well, folks, not in the UK.
We have SP10 on a Test environment and, having struggled to discover it by my usual means of poking about, I succumbed to opening the manual. Ah, it requires Cloud Services to be activated. But, oh dear, talking to our hosting team....
Hi Mark,
Due to data protection laws we are not able to provide the new cloud services to European clients at this point.
Page 13 of the SP10 release notes provides an overview of what should be available, I have included it below as well for your convenience.
See attached. Well, I won't be making any changes to our system until next summer so Blackboard, please sort this out. By next May would be nice.
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Regards
Mark
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