Duke Sakai Transition
Update for ITAC 6/21/2012
Communications summary
Mass communications about the transition started May 2011.
All Blackboard Sites
GONE FOREVER
6/30/2012
FACULTY AND STAFF: follow these steps to ensure you have
the content you need from Blackboard before
JUNE 30, 2012 and to get started with Sakai today.
1) Check Sakai for your migrated Blackboard content
Log in at sakai.duke.edu
2) Download any other Blackboard content you want to save
Not all content migrates! Student data (assignments, wikis, blogs, discussion boards,
grades, etc.) MUST be copied or saved manually before 6/30/2012.
support.sakai.duke.edu
3) Move to Sakai today!
Get started at the Sakai support site: support.sakai.duke.edu
Learn more at:
sakai.duke.edu and
support.sakai.duke.edu
®
sakai.duke.edu
Blog posts = 12 Sakai transition updates
• CIT
CIT
Newsletter updates = 10 focused on Sakai and
• Blackboard
shutdown/transition (1500+ subscribers)
Countdown
timers posted in courses.duke.edu and on
• blackboard.duke.edu
info posted in announcements of every
• Transition
Blackboard course Fall 2011 and Spring 2012
to departments, department chairs, etc: 2 - plus
• Letters
follow up emails
to all faculty on sabbatical and leave: 2
• Emails
Message
Provost to Deans in March 2012
• Duke Today,fromWorking@Duke,
= 3 articles
• All Blackboard Users (4500+etcfaculty/instructors/ORG
site
• owners) emailed = 4 times
in faculty mailrooms, department doors, etc
• Posters
Postcards
- 2 mass mailings. Stickers on coffee sleeves,
• digital signage
and anything else we could think of
Training and Support
Between March 2011 - June 2012, CIT offered 18 different types of workshops (97
scheduled workshop sessions) to over 400 participants. CIT also offered 66 Office Hour
help sessions and over 50 personalized office visits.
Transition summary
980 active faculty using Sakai. Since Fall 2011, about 1600 unique course sites created in
Sakai. Over 28,000 Bb sites migrated. Combined users active since Fall 2011: 13,877
Questions? [email protected] or http://sakai.duke.edu
Duke Sakai Transition
Update for ITAC 6/21/2012
School
# Bb faculty
A&S
# Sakai faculty
adop3on rate
753
440
58%
26
9
35%
Engineering
111
75
67%
Medicine
354
144
41%
Nursing
104
84
81%
Law
115
58
50%
Divinity
41
27
66%
Environment
86
53
62%
Business
Sample - A&S departments
Repor3ng Group
# former ac3ve Bb faculty
# Sakai faculty adop3on rate
Thompson Wri3ng Program
22
21
95%
Poli3cal Science
27
18
67%
9
6
67%
Public Policy
76
47
62%
Cultural Anthropology
18
9
50%
History
40
19
47%
Economics
39
13
33%
AAAS
Upcoming changes/developments
Duke Toolkits changes to allow better access to Sakai for support staff as delegates and to set
up batch course creation processes for schools. Minor bug fixes and changes to prepare for an
upgrade to Sakai 2.9 by Summer 2013.
More info
http://sakai.duke.edu
http://support.sakai.duke.edu
Duke presentation at the Jasig Sakai Conference 2012: http://bit.ly/dukesakai2012
Training and support continue to be available through Summer and into the Fall:
http://cit.duke.edu/events/sakai
Questions? [email protected] or http://sakai.duke.edu