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Blackboard Learn Administration

By : Terry Patterson
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Blackboard Learn Administration

By: Terry Patterson

Overview of this book

Blackboard Learn is web application software that allows users around the world to participate in training and educational opportunities. This software is utilized in high schools, college campuses, corporations, and government entities."Blackboard Learn Administration" navigates both novice and experienced administrators through the simple and complex parts of the E-Learning portal.Readers go step-by-step with the author from planning and installing a Blackboard Learn instance to supporting and administrating a system with courses and users.The book starts with how to plan, install, and brand a Blackboard Learn instance. Readers then learn about the creation and management of courses and users. You then learn about the tools and controls that administrator's possess within Blackboard Learn. Readers also review how to improve security and performance within their system. You then dip into complex topics such as integrating Blackboard Learn with other information systems and publisher websites.Administrating Blackboard Learn educates the reader on the fundamental tools and tasks for basic administration, while explaining complex options that expert administrators want to tackle.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Blackboard Learn Administration
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
6
Creating Users in Blackboard Learn
Appendix
Index

Operating systems


As mentioned earlier, Blackboard Learn runs on three different operating systems: Microsoft Windows, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and Solaris. The operating system used will often decide what other software items you will require during the installation process. We will have two examples in this chapter; one will be for those users who plan to use Microsoft Windows, and the other covers Red Hat and Solaris. Why would we put Red Hat and Solaris together? Well, both are different flavors of the Linux operating system, but the installation of Blackboard Learn requires the same steps.

The first thing we must do is familiarize ourselves with the resources available to Blackboard Learn system administrators. We can find many of these resources within Blackboard Inc.'s support website, called Behind the Blackboard (http://behind.blackboard.com). This website contains documentation, support bulletins, Knowledge Base Articles (KBAs), information about known issues, and a location from...