(Teaching Research And Collaboration System) A Story As Big As Texas Texas State’s Migration from Blackboard to Sakai

(Teaching Research And Collaboration System) A story as big as Texas2 Introduction Our goal is to build our own system: One that we can shape and customize without restrictions. A system that puts control in the hands of the people that use it, namely the faculty.

(Teaching Research And Collaboration System) A story as big as Texas3 The Project To deactivate the current customized version of Blackboard by facilitating a voluntary migration of users to a Sakai- based environment.

(Teaching Research And Collaboration System) A story as big as Texas4 Migration Process Blackboard Sakai ConceptStudyPilot Open FinalOperations and Maintenance Discontinuance End of Life Migration Control Gates Sakai enhancement releases (1) Early Deployment and Transition Planning (2) Initial deployment to users (3) Detailed Discontinuance Planning

(Teaching Research And Collaboration System) A story as big as Texas5 Project Paths

(Teaching Research And Collaboration System) A story as big as Texas6 Pilot Program Fall 2005 –Membership 10 faculty, +/- 900 students Spring 2006/Summer –Membership 25 faculty, +/-2,000 Students –Criteria for faculty selection Sites in Blackboard, extensiveness of Blackboard site, computer use –Support Hand holding –Survey Results and Lessons learned

(Teaching Research And Collaboration System) A story as big as Texas7 Four servers –Load Balancer –App Server 1 –App Server 2 –Database Server/File Server Server Infrastructure

(Teaching Research And Collaboration System) A story as big as Texas8 Load Balancer 3Ghz Dual Core Xeon 1Gb RAM Apache 2.0 uses mod_jk as load balancer –connects to app servers via AJP protocol SMTP load balancing Server Infrastructure Load Balancing

(Teaching Research And Collaboration System) A story as big as Texas9 Server Infrastructure Application Servers (2) App Servers two 3.7Ghz Xeons 4Gb RAM each server runs two copies of Sakai, using different network ports mounts NFS for file storage

(Teaching Research And Collaboration System) A story as big as Texas10 Server Infrastructure Database/File Server Database/File Server two 3.7Ghz Xeons 4Gb RAM MySQL 4.1 NFS Server 500Gb is allocated from disk arrays for file storage

(Teaching Research And Collaboration System) A story as big as Texas11 Q.A. and Testing Selenium testing – To create automated tests Faculty interviews To determine likes/dislikes about legacy system To introduce to Sakai User testing Testing plan Testing station

(Teaching Research And Collaboration System) A story as big as Texas12 Support Workshops 90 Workshops Thirty for 1 st two weeks Six per month thereafter Duration Two hours Attendance 424 participants

(Teaching Research And Collaboration System) A story as big as Texas13 Support Topics covered –Beginning –Advanced –Gradebook and Assessments Signing up –TRACSFacts

(Teaching Research And Collaboration System) A story as big as Texas14 Liaisons –Role –Criteria –Support –Expectations Phone and based support –OTRS –Volume (3,000 resolved tickets) Support

(Teaching Research And Collaboration System) A story as big as Texas15 TRACS Facts site:

(Teaching Research And Collaboration System) A story as big as Texas16 TRACS Facts site:

(Teaching Research And Collaboration System) A story as big as Texas17 TRACS Facts site:

(Teaching Research And Collaboration System) A story as big as Texas18 TRACS Facts site: Faculty to Faculty Help

(Teaching Research And Collaboration System) A story as big as Texas19 Future Complete migration Integrate TRACS (Sakai) into the institutional culture Facilitate system-wide adoption

(Teaching Research And Collaboration System) Q&A

(Teaching Research And Collaboration System) A story as big as Texas21 Contact information Michael Farris – Project lead Zach Thomas – Software Amy Boyd – IT Salwa Khan – Media Jeff Snider – Network/server Fazia Rizvi – User James Buratti – Web Jimmy Rico – User Support and Whitten Smart – User Support and Sean McMains – Software Architect and Rori Sheffield – Project