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Hi everyone,
Sorry if this is a silly question but I am trying to add a new license to our existing install as part of an upgrade from 9.1 Q4 2016 to 9.1 Q4 2017. This will give my organization the ability to use the CMS in learn.
What I am wondering is if I have to do anything special to migrate our content to use the CMS. Does it get handled by adding the license?
Are there any tips with how to handle this that anyone can provide?
Does this content include course content? Currently we are service our course content from a proxy that sits in front of our Learn application host.
Any help or guidance is greatly appreciated.
Cheers.
Marc,
In short, you don't need to do anything technical with the system. The license update will enable application features and capabilities, but it won't move anything around. The CMS (aka the Content System or Content Collection) is already part of the Learn platform, just a bit hidden with your existing license. (You can see it now if you look in the Course Files area of each course). Note that the license update will also provide you access to other related features like Portfolios.
I highly recommend you do this on a test system first and explore how you want to handle the system settings and configuration of the Content Collection. You really want to be strategic in how you are going to introduce the features to your users and ensure that access to tools and features are configured in alignment with that strategy. Perhaps others in the community can weigh in on the decisions they made and why. There are some existing posts that might help you connect with them.
There is an entire section of the Administrator Help documentation dedicated to the Content Collection (https://help.blackboard.com/Learn/Administrator/Hosting/Tools_Management/Content_Collection)
Best
Jeff