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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

Managing Blackboard Learn services


Now we have completed the installation or upgrade of our Blackboard Learn instance. Blackboard has on-board ability to manage its services. These allow you to control when Bb-Tomcat, Bb-Collab, and the web service (either Apache or IIS) are available to users. These three services start the different components we mentioned in Chapter 1, Planning a Blackboard Learn Instance. For clarification, Bb-Tomcat is the service that oversees the starting and stopping of the Tomcat server and Bb-Collab controls the collaboration server. The utilities that we will discuss should be run by the user that we created during the installation of our instance. The two biggest options we need to discuss would be ServiceController and PushConfigUpdates.

The ServiceController utility available to administrators resides in the tools\admin subfolder of the Blackboard home folder. If you are working on an application server, such as making changes or fixing a bug, this will stop...