By Greg Rienzi, The Gazette
This summer, four of the university’s academic divisions will switch to the popular course management software, now in use at a majority of U.S. colleges. Three others will be upgrading to the latest version in the near future. Blackboard will replace WebCT, the virtual learning system at Johns Hopkins since 2000. No courses will be offered in WebCT after summer 2010. The Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Whiting School of Engineering, SAIS and Peabody will migrate existing course sites to Blackboard starting July 6 and begin use in the fall. (Part-time programs in the Krieger and Whiting schools will continue with Sakai, a customizable community source system used by more than 200 colleges and universities worldwide.) The Carey Business School, School of Medicine and the School of Nursing currently use an earlier version of Blackboard, and a specific migration schedule to 9.1 is being finalized.
http://gazette.jhu.edu/2010/05/17/planning-for-the-demise-of-webct/
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