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Early in 2006 Blackboard purchased WebCT.
Many of the WebCT developers and others were offered positions at Blackboard and
it was promised that the WebCT Campus Edition 6 and Vista 4
learning systems would be combined with the Blackbaord Academic Suite over time.
The products continue to converge, although we do not have information on when a
complete convergence will be completed. Administrative, development, and
support operations have combined. Blackboard NG version 9 will be the first
version to combine the features of Blackboard Academic Suite, WebCT version 4.1
and WebCT CE 6. Versions of all products were migrated to version 8, so
that the next offering for all products would be the combined version 9. Our current version is CE 8.0.3,
which has been renamed Blackboard
Learning System CE Enterprise.
To ease the migration to version 9 UTMB will continue
to run CE 8 along side of version 9, i.e. Co-Production mode. This will
allow both CE8 and version 9 courses to be offered (using the same
authentication) and during the 2009-2010 school year we will begin
migration to version 9. It is expected that all new courses offered for
the 2010-2011 academic year will be hosted with version 9. The name for
the newest version is Blackboard Learn+ version 9.
The SAHS CLS program Blackboard 8
Academic course have migrated to Learn version 9 for the 2009-2010 academic
year. In addition Learn version 9 will also begin hosting the UTMB
Compliance Training courses during the current academic year.
Legacy WebCT CE4.1 System
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