On 8/30/09, gengel wrote:
> On 6/12/09, bernoulli wrote:
>> We need something new here!
>>
>> We are upgrading from Bb 7.2 straight to 9.0 next year.
>> Anyone have any current experience with 9.0?
>>
>> I am a heavy user of 7.2. The conversion from WebCT to
>> Blackboard was a lot of work because of things that would
>> not convert. I understand 7.2 courses should convert to 9.0
>> fairly well.
>
> Very heavy user of Blackboard for four years, and I want to
> roll back to 8.0! 9.0 is slow to load and we are having
> issues. A real Vista feel to it, shiny buttons and features
> but it seems to be a real dog to load. Maybe it is the server
> farm but it handled 8.0 flawlessly

I just started using 9 this week. It is going to take some getting
used to because a lot of the commands or functions are not easy to
recognize. We jumped from 7.2 to 9. I haven't used it with
students yet, so hard to say if it will slow down.

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