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

2. (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.

3. (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.

4. (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

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

6. (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

7. (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

8. (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

9. (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

10. (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

11. (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

12. (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

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

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

15. (Teaching Research And Collaboration System) A story as big as Texas15 TRACS Facts site: http://tracsfacts.its.txstate.edu/http://tracsfacts.its.txstate.edu/

16. (Teaching Research And Collaboration System) A story as big as Texas16 TRACS Facts site: http://tracsfacts.its.txstate.edu/http://tracsfacts.its.txstate.edu/

17. (Teaching Research And Collaboration System) A story as big as Texas17 TRACS Facts site: http://tracsfacts.its.txstate.edu/http://tracsfacts.its.txstate.edu/

18. (Teaching Research And Collaboration System) A story as big as Texas18 TRACS Facts site: http://tracsfacts.its.txstate.edu/http://tracsfacts.its.txstate.edu/ Faculty to Faculty Help

19. (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

20. (Teaching Research And Collaboration System) Q&A

21. (Teaching Research And Collaboration System) A story as big as Texas21 Contact information Michael Farris – Project lead mf03@txstate.edu Zach Thomas – Software Engineerzt10@txstate.edu Amy Boyd – IT Developer/Programmerab46@txstate.edu Salwa Khan – Media Developmentsk16@txstate.edu Jeff Snider – Network/server infrastructurejs38@txstate.edu Fazia Rizvi – User Environmentfr06@txstate.edu James Buratti – Web Supportjb63@txstate.edu Jimmy Rico – User Support and Documentationsr03@txstate.edu Whitten Smart – User Support and Documentationws15@txstate.edu Sean McMains – Software Architect and Advisorseanmctex@txstate.edu Rori Sheffield – Project Assistantrp41@txstate.edu