Blackboard Upgrade Decision

Goal: decide whether to upgrade to Blackboard 5.0 or 5.5, and if so, to the low-rent version or the enterprise version.

Timeline: make decision by end of June
Participants: Henk Meij, Raja Swamy, Dan Schnaidt, Jolee West, Mike Roy, Ravi

Description:
We need to answer a variety of questions

  1. Can we stay with version 4.0 if we decide that would be the right thing to do? What would that cost?
  2. What are the differences between 4.0, 5.0, and 5.5 on the non-enterprise edition? What are the cost differences?
  3. What are the major benefits of the enterprise edition that make it worth spending the extra money?

Relevant Documents

Our existing blackboard installation (version 4.0) is at http://blackboard.wesleyan.edu

A test version of blackboard 5.0 is at http://condor.wesleyan.edu:9910/index.html?bbatt=Y

Orientation to Blackboard 5.5 from Blackboard at http://products.blackboard.com/cp/bb5/orientation/index.cgi

 

 

 

 

 

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