Andy Mitkos, learning management systems coordinator, was a presenter at the recent Blackboard World ’17 in New Orleans. This was Blackboard’s annual conference for system administrators and power users. His presentation was titled, “From self-hosted to SaaS: How and why we made the switch.”

Andy, a Blackboard MVP, discussed the process of working with Blackboard Cloud Services to migrate a self-hosted system into a SaaS (software as a service) environment. LLCC moved from an outdated server system housed on campus to a completely updated and large server system housed through Blackboard (in the cloud). The SaaS portion of the system ensures LLCC will be running the most current and up-to-date version of Blackboard.