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Let's Talk About about managing change.Release 9.1: Ready to Upgrade?

Over the last several months and even years, you have been providing us with invaluable feedback about how we can improve ourselves and our products to better serve the real issues you face today. Some of the main challenges you experience are around upgrades. How to plan for them? Why do them? How to manage the change? How to make change easier.

With this in mind, we’ve developed tools to help answer these questions and spark a conversation with other Blackboard clients or your Blackboard account manager about the upgrade process.

Want to keep the conversation going? Schedule time to speake with a representative.upgradecenter@blackboard.com
Explore Blackboard Learn Release 9.1

Next Steps:

Schedule some time with a Blackboard Representative to discuss your upgrade plan. Follow the Upgrade Readiness Tool's three easy steps to get a Release 9.1 upgrade time estimate, activities checklist and recommended resources. Attend a "Life in Blackboard Learn Release 9.1" Webinar. Enhance the overall academic experience with Blackboard Connect™ integration. Read about all the benefits and resources available with Release 9.1.


Blackboard Learn , Release 9.1 features exciting new social learning and teaching tools that foster more logical, visually impactful and active learning opportunities for students. You’ll transform your closed-door classrooms into communities where students remain connected to their educational experience 24 hours a day.

Our new instructional productivity tools give your faculty the freedom to focus on teaching and learning techniques. By continually improving the course workflow, you’ll enable educators to spend less time on administrative details and more time on student success, achievement, and retention. Experience the powerful new capabilities in Release 9.1 – from both a student and an educator perspective – on a hosted evaluation server for thirty days. Invite others at your institution to evaluate the new and improved capabilities and help inform the decision to upgrade.
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Screenshot of Release 9.1

Screenshot of Release 9.1.
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Leadership Perspective

Beta clients relate their experiences with Blackboard Learn, Release 9.1.
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Release 9.1:
The Higher Ed Conversation

Read the first in a series of posts drawn from a conversation with higher ed administrators that took part in the Beta program for Blackboard Learn, Release 9.1. Download the Success Stories:
A personalized upgrade experience

Next Steps:

Schedule some time with a Blackboard Representative to discuss your upgrade plan. Follow the Upgrade Readiness Tool's three easy steps to get a Release 9.1 upgrade time estimate, activities checklist and recommended resources. Attend a "Life in Blackboard Learn Release 9.1" Webinar. Read about all the benefits and resources available with Release 9.1.


Not just software – an entirely different upgrade experience
Over the past months and years, we've heard from clients about the real challenges faced when upgrading your LMS and how we should help. So, with Blackboard Learn™, Release 9.1, we built a comprehensive combination of tools and resources to ease the change management process and facilitate adoption. You’ll find an upgrade experience that is more personal, supportive and guided.
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The Blackboard Upgrade Center.
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February 18, 2010
We are constantly receiving inquiries from clients looking for resources and planning information as they consider upgrading to Release 9...
Preparing & Training faculty

Next Steps:

Schedule some time with a Blackboard Representative to discuss your upgrade plan. Follow the Upgrade Readiness Tool's three easy steps to get a Release 9.1 upgrade time estimate, activities checklist and recommended resources. Attend a "Life in Blackboard Learn Release 9.1" Webinar. Read about all the benefits and resources available with Release 9.1.


One of the biggest upgrade challenges that you have communicated to us is the need to better prepare and train faculty for the changes. To help address this challenge, we’ve created the free On-Demand Learning Center for your faculty. The Learning Center is home to dozens of video tutorials, getting started guides and other Dr. C resources to help faculty get acclimated to the new features of Release 9.1. Put these tools to work for you to drive faster, more cost-effective adoption and more support for your campus-wide learning management initiative.
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An On-Demand Learning Center Video Tutorial on Adding Content Areas in Blackboard Learn.
Commitment to quality & reliability

Next Steps:

Schedule some time with a Blackboard Representative to discuss your upgrade plan. Attend a "Life in Blackboard Learn Release 9.1" Webinar.


Our Commitment to Global Quality & Reliability
As more and more educational providers realize strategic goals with the support of online programs, the highest levels of uptime and availability to meet round-the-clock access are a necessity. Developed in partnership with educational institutions seeking industry-leading quality of service and reliability for their online programs, Blackboard Managed HostingSM is pleased to announce the introduction of a 99.9% Uptime Service Level Agreement (SLA). The 99.9% SLA is available for institutions upgrading to Blackboard Learn™, Release 9.1, who currently have, or plan to move to, the Platinum Level Service, or higher, subject to meeting Best Practice Requirements*. Learn more >
99.9% Uptime SLA

*Restrictions Apply. All qualifications must be met.
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Blackboard Perspective

Ray Henderson, President of Blackboard Learn, discusses quality and enabling success.


 
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