Miami University

Open forums announced for Blackboard replacement

10/18/2010

All faculty, students and staff are invited to attend open forums designed to inform the Miami community about the Sakai implementation project. These sessions will give attendees the opportunity to ask questions of the project team and view demos of potential system functionality. Sessions are scheduled for the following dates and locations:

• Tuesday, Oct. 19, 9 – 11 a.m., Middletown, 136 Johnston
• Wednesday, Oct. 20, 8:30 – 10:30 a.m., Oxford, 320 King
• Wednesday, Oct. 27, 3 – 5 p.m., Oxford, 320 King
• Thursday, Oct. 28, 9 – 11 a.m., Hamilton, Wilks Conference Center, Seminar Room

Sakai is a “Collaboration & Learning Environment” (CLE) that will be replacing the Blackboard Learning Management System that has been in use at Miami since the late 1990s. For more information about the Sakai implementation project, please visit www.muohio.edu/sip.

Niihka (pronounced 'neeka'), Miami University’s new name for the Collaboration & Learning Environment, will replace Blackboard next fall. Niihka won in a landslide after 1,134 people voted for one of four finalists. The winner of the contest is Kathleen Pickens-French, public services librarian at Rentschler Library on the Hamilton campus.