Now that we have secured our instance, we can now focus on learning more about what is going on within our Blackboard Learn environment. The information we will review in this section can be compared to traffic cameras and sensors in large communities to understand and support traffic as it moves around. Understanding what is going on within our instance will help us create a traffic plan for our virtual community to make sure that things run smoothly.
The first thing we should discuss is the configuration of our system. At the beginning of our Blackboard Learn discussions, we talked about making sure our hardware and software would be able to support the number of users that we would need. We then built our Blackboard Learn instance to support those users, however the needs and expectations for applications like Blackboard Learn can change. Many times we find that the tools within our instance can meet needs that we didn't plan...