SVSU has created a new portal page for students, staff, and faculty. This new portal is powered by Novell's Express Portal. This is all fine and dandy, except that the university already has a license for Blackboard.
Granted, our Blackboard license doesn't include portal features but we can upgrade our license to include portal software.
Advantages of using Blackboard over Express Portal:
- the SVSU population is already familiar with the Blackboard interface
- Blackboard and WebAdvisor/Colleague from Datatel integrate nicely.
The only benefit that Express Portal has, that I see, is that it integrates with our Mail and Network storage systems (both powered by Novell technology). It has one huge drawback: currently, mySVSU does not provide support for working with Blackboard!
It seems to me that upgrading Blackboard would be a better way to go.
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