studentcentral moves to Blackboard Managed Hosting

Over the Easter Weekend studentcentral moved from being hosted on site by Information Services staff to Blackboard Managed Hosting.

This move brings many benefits:

• 24 hours a day, seven days a week support from Blackboard’s International network
• Hourly backups and restoration ability
• The ability to patch and upgrade the system much more responsively
• Expert support and configuration for the service

We are currently planning for a major upgrade in July 2014, but the changes this weekend have allowed us to take advantage immediately of some patches, providing:

• The introduction of negative marking.
• A quick navigation to recently accessed courses (details to follow)
• Improved online test resilience

For more information please also see the original post announcing the move to hosting.

About Katie Piatt

Katie is the eLearning Services Manager at the University of Brighton.