Institutions
A list of institutions planning Sakai migrations, along with links to more information.
institution | current system(s) | user population | migration timeframe | tools used to migrate | problems/tips | contact |
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Blackboard 5.5 | ~30,000 | 3,600 users in Sakai for the Spring of 2006. 10,000 users for Fall 2006. By Fall, 2007, 80% of faculty in Blackboard were migrated to Sakai instance. Final stage of migration scheduled for Fall 2008. Shutdown of Blackboard scheduled for early Spring 2009. | Â | Â | ||
Blackboard 5.5 | ~5,000 | 500 users in Sakai for the Fall of 2005, running Blackboard and Sakai in parallel for AY 06-07, turning Blackboard off as soon as Sakai is "ready" (hopefully May '07) | Â | Â | Â | |
Blackboard 6 Basic | ~1,400 | 20% of courses in Sakai Fall 2005, 40% of courses in Sakai Spring 2006, full production in Fall 2006 | Â | Â | Â | |
Blackboard 5.5 and WebCT 3.8 | ~35,000 | ~4500 users in Sakai for Fall 2005, ~15,500 in Sakai in Spring 2006, retire WebCT in Fall 2006, retire Blackboard in Fall 2007 | Â | Â | Â | |
Oncourse original (IIS, VB Script, SQLServer) | ~100,000 | 39% migrated Spring 2006, retire original Oncourse by Summer 2007 | Â | Â | ||
Blackboard 6.2.3 | ~25,000 | Pilot Fall 2006, begin migrating Spring 2007, full migration by Fall 2008 | Â | Â | ||
WebCT 4.1 | ~25,000 | Pilot Spring 2005, begin migrating Fall 2005, full migration by Spring 2008 | Â | Â | ||
WebCT CE 4.1 | ~18,000 | Small scale rollout early 2008, full migration TBD | Â | |||
University of Witwatersrand | WebCT CE 6 | ~32000 | Pilot Late 2011, ~16000 users in Sakai in Mid 2012, running Sakai and Blackboard in parallel till December 2012. Turning Blackboard off December 2012 | Respondus for assessments and WedDav for Resources | Â | Nguni Phakela |