The focus of most of our testing over the last month has been making sure that our local settings in Blackboard work correctly. We\u2019ve spent a lot of time working on the Welsh language translation. Our translation files are quite old and need updating, so we\u2019ll be spending time getting the Welsh interface working correctly.<\/p>\n
We\u2019re also checking all the main Blackboard tools to make sure that they work as we expect \u2013 and for that to work properly we will need your help. We plan to invite staff to test the new SaaS environment to get more feedback \u2013 look out for an email inviting you to join the testing group.<\/p>\n
In the last blog post we mentioned we are planning downtime for the final data transfer. It has been quite hard to find a suitable time that isn\u2019t either too early or disruptive during the supplementary exam period. We believe that we\u2019ve now found a suitable date. Our plan is to take Blackboard out of service on 29th<\/sup> August. It should take a couple of hours to transfer the data and when we bring Blackboard back into service it will be read-only until 2nd<\/sup> September. If staff need access to update anything between 29th<\/sup> August and 2nd<\/sup> September, please email elearning@aber.ac.uk<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The focus of most of our testing over the last month has been making sure that our local settings in Blackboard work correctly. We\u2019ve spent a lot of time working on the Welsh language translation. Our translation files are quite old and need updating, so we\u2019ll be spending time getting the Welsh interface working correctly. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8053,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[94],"tags":[108],"class_list":["post-594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blackboard","tag-saas"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9XLJV-9A","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/e-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/e-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/e-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/e-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8053"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/e-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=594"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/e-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2842,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/e-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions\/2842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/e-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/e-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/e-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}