We have completed Blackboard 7 upgrade. So far, we have not found any major issues - yes, minor issues. I am letting the users in today. Wish me luck tomorrow!
Oh, one thing that I did was to change the web site structures using the DNS cname trick. The IDs (Instructional Designers) and myself have wanted to be able to do something in the Blackboard front page before entering the ASP site. With our single sign on - CAS, I can not let users get to the Bb portal (gateway page) and not much can be done with the one page Bb front page. So, here we go:
Two sites were created:
blackboard-fs.csufresno.edu and blackboard-asp.csufresno.edu
The public known URL for our Blackboard:
blackboard.csufresno.edu
The cname trick:
blackboard.csufresno.edu cname blackboard-fs.csufresno.edu; so, users are sent to blackboard-fs.csufresno.edu for Bb information and updates. To make my management feel more comfortable since we are actually adding an additional point of possible failure, we can easily fail back DNS to blackboard.csufresno.edu cname blackboard-asp.csufresno.edu; so, people will be sent the ASP hosted site.
This is simple, but seems to work for everyone. SO FAR...
My goal is to create a LMS portal in front of Blackboard, i.e. uPortal. This is just the step one!
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