After a series of emails posted below for your convienence, TLC has accepted the responsibilty to move the “Content Collection” for each faculty member in the SOM. The caveat is that you must ask for this service. It will not help with relinking material in courses to the “Content Collection” but it is one less step you will have to deal with during this process. I have written below a request that you may copy and paste into an email for your convienence:

Dear Bb Admin:

Please move the content found in the “Content Collection” for my account from the Bb 7.1 server to the newer Bb 7.3 server. I understand that courses that link to the “Content Collection” will have to be relinked. Thak you for your expedience in this matter.

Sincerely,

YOUR NAME HERE
YOUREMAIL@uncg.edu

Send it to the following email: reowens@uncg.edu

Here are the emails for your review in reverse chronological order:

>To: Brian Thacker BRTHACKE/facultystaff/uncg@uncg
>From: Rob Owens REOWENS/facultystaff/uncg
>Date: 10/29/2007 08:45AM
>Subject: Re: Fw: Content Collection
>
>
>Brian:
>
>I see your point and I will propose a 300MB course size limitation.
>
>Gerardo’s original intent on placing the content in the Content
>Collection system was
>to help streamline the course archive process. As you know courses
>that are too large will not archive.
>
>Yes, UNCG is not like other schools because we don’t have policies
>and procedures and that has brought due harm to the Blackboard system
>where we have maxed out on the total number of courses we can have on
>the system (as well as a plethora of other problems created by
>”faculty convenience”).
>
>Music school faculty can contact myself or Amanda and we will move
>the content system content for them.
>
>Rob
>
>Rob Owens
>
>Blackboard Application Administrator
>University Teaching and Learning Center
>UNC Greensboro
>132 McIver Building
>336.334.5036
>reowens@uncg.edu
>
>
>
>—–Brian Thacker BRTHACKE/facultystaff/uncg wrote: —–
>
>
>To: Rob Owens REOWENS/facultystaff/uncg@uncg
>From: Brian Thacker BRTHACKE/facultystaff/uncg
>Date: 10/28/2007 07:58PM
>Subject: Re: Fw: Content Collection
>
>
>Rob,
>
>My only complaint at the moment is that if there is no limitation on
>course size (as per your new document) my faculty should have been
>placing their content in the course. They only placed in in the
>Content Collection per your request because of the issues you were
>having with backups and archiving. Now they are being punished for
>their work to solve one of your earlier issues. UNCG is also not
>other schools, so the reference to them is moot. Thanks.
>
>Dr. Brian R. Thacker
>Instructional Technology Consultant
>School of Music, UNC Greensboro
>brthacke@uncg.edu
>(336) 256-0164
>http://musictech.uncg.edu

>To: Amanda Schipman AKSCHIPM/facultystaff/uncg@uncg
>From: Rob Owens REOWENS/facultystaff/uncg
>Date: 10/28/2007 05:55PM
>cc: Brian Thacker BRTHACKE/facultystaff/uncg@uncg, Ray Purdom
>RCPURDOM/facultystaff/uncg@uncg
>Subject: Re: Fw: Content Collection
>
>
>Brian:
>
>As you know whenever we move to a new server faculty are going to
>have to re-link content system content.
>
>The inconveniences that are faculty experience are nothing compared
>to how the majority of other schools handle Blackboard. Most do not
>have technical professionals that will assist them in moving content.
>
>
>Rob
>
>
>Rob Owens
>
>Blackboard Application Administrator
>University Teaching and Learning Center
>UNC Greensboro
>132 McIver Building
>336.334.5036
>reowens@uncg.edu
>
>
>
>—–Amanda Schipman AKSCHIPM/facultystaff/uncg wrote: —–
>
>
>To: Brian Thacker BRTHACKE/facultystaff/uncg@uncg
>From: Amanda Schipman AKSCHIPM/facultystaff/uncg
>Date: 10/26/2007 01:27PM
>cc: Ray Purdom RCPURDOM/facultystaff/uncg@uncg, Rob Owens
>REOWENS/facultystaff/uncg@uncg
>Subject: Fw: Content Collection
>
>Brian,
>
>This does mean that any part of a course which links to the content
>collection will have to have that link re-established. It is my
>understanding that even if we could migrate the files in the content
>collection, those links would still be broken because the content
>collection in Blackboard 7.3 has changed it’s directory structure.
>The only way we could have avoided this situation is if we would have
>been able to upgrade our current version of Blackboard to 7.3, but
>since Blackboard, Inc. said that it was not a possibility for us, we
>are having to establish a new server with a “fresh” installation of
>Blackboard 7.3. Unfortunately, there is no way around it.
>
>
>
>Amanda K. Schipman
>*********************************************
>Instructional Technology Specialist &
>Faculty Development Coordinator
>University Teaching and Learning Center
>131 McIver
>336-334-5128
>amanda.schipman@uncg.edu
>
>
>—– Forwarded by Amanda Schipman AKSCHIPM/facultystaff/uncg on
>10/26/2007 01:16 PM —–
>
>Brian Thacker BRTHACKE/facultystaff/uncg
>10/26/2007 12:11 PM
>
>To
>Amanda Schipman AKSCHIPM/facultystaff/uncg@uncg
>
>
>cc
>
>
>
>Subject
>Re: Content Collection Link
>
>
>
>Amanda,
>
>If you move courses over to the new server that rely heavily on
>content from the Content Collection, will is completely foobar the
>course so that the fauclty member will have to recreate it from
>scratch? Doe that mean all of the links will now be invalid, and
>we’ll see tons of error messages on the screan? Does that mean most
>of my faculty will now have to start at ground zero, for some of them
>the 4th or more time since we started using Bb at this school?
>
>Thanks!
>Dr. Brian R. Thacker
>Instructional Technology Consultant
>School of Music, UNC Greensboro
>brthacke@uncg.edu
>(336) 256-0164
>http://musictech.uncg.edu