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Palomar trends toward online courses

As professors and students delve deeper into the technological advances of the 21st century, the question of whether online classes are just as effective as…

Canvas to replace Blackboard at Palomar

Palomar is changing the learning software students use for classes with an online component. Blackboard, the former software, will become obsolete as students will now…

Palomar logs online

With the advent of the Internet and smart phones, we’ve seen our lives change as they become more closely connected with this new technology. As…

Blackboard could be replaced

Blackboard could be removed in the coming semesters, and its replacement is a bit of a big-shot, well lets just say it has the backing…

BbWorld 2014 Debrief

Okay, wow, the BbWorld conference was, as always, intense and packed with knowledge. And in case one doesn’t get their fill of knowledge within the many sessions, there was even a knowledge bar set up, where the Blackboard MVPs would answer specific questions.

Bound for Blackboard World!

In just a few days, I’ll be making the trek out to the BbWorld conference, meeting this year in Las Vegas. Every year thatI’ve attended BbWorld there is always something good I bring back home, but this year I’m… well, I’m more excited than usual.

End of an era of Blackboard at Palomar

I’ve had a long history with Blackboard’s course management software at Palomar College. My second act when given the responsibility for Palomar’s Blackboard system was to upgrade from Courseinfo version 2 to 3, back in the twentieth century.

Road to Managed Hosting – Part Three

Turns out that most of the building block configuration worries were actually non-issues.

Road to Bb Managed Hosting – Part 2

I’ve had access to my new Managed Hosting Blackboard environment for almost two weeks now; it’s a bit amazing how many niggling details needed to be dealt with, before the system is ready to unleash.

Road to Bb Managed Hosting – Part 1

Last month, February 11, 2014, the Palomar Governing Board approved our moving the Palomar Blackboard environment from a self-hosted model (which we had been doing since 1998) to the Blackboard Managed Hosting service. The contract was actually signed on February 28, 2014, and I’m now awaiting the delivery of our new off-site-hosted system.