What happened to Blackboard?

For over two years, SF State has been investigating alternatives to Blackboard (Bb) based on faculty focus group recommendations. During this time period, SF State has offered two different Learning Management Systems (LMS): Blackboard and iLearn. Blackboard is a commercial product that SF State licensed and hosted off-campus for a fee. iLearn is based on freely available open source code, called Moodle, which we modify, customize and maintain to meet the needs of our institution and host on-campus.

Last December, the Educational Technology Advisory Committee (ETAC) recommended that SF State move exclusively to iLearn. This report is posted on the ETAC website at http://www.sfsu.edu/~etac/ETAC_Report-iLearn-Bb-final.pdf PDF file icon.

calendar image with June 30 circled in redOn June 30, 2007, SF State's contract with Blackboard ended. Below are some important facts and links for faculty and students:
Faculty
Convert your Blackboard course/s to iLearn, SFSU's new Learning Management System. Learn how to save your Blackboard content and convert your courses to iLearn. The last day faculty have access to Blackboard is June 30th, 2007. After this time, you may contact the iLearn support team for help: ilearn@sfsu.edu
Students

Learn how to use iLearn
The Academic Technology team is creating QuickGuides for tasks that instructors commonly ask students to perform in iLearn. You can find the QuickGuides and more at the iLearn Help page: https://ilearn.sfsu.edu/student