At 11:00 AM, the Tri-co shutdown its shared instance of the Blackboard course management system. In a two-step process, Swarthmore Professor Aimee Johnson (Math) and Haverford CIO Joe Spadaro pressed the “enter” keys that shut down the Blackboard services for the final time. On a separate screen, the assembled group of onlookers verified that Blackboard was no longer available.
The shutdown is the conclusion to a period of over 11 years where Bryn Mawr, Haverford, and Swarthmore Colleges shared a single instance of Blackboard for all of their students, faculty and staff. All three schools have already switched to Moodle, an open source course management system. Tri-co students continue to have automatic access to their registered courses across all three schools.
![BbShutdown Onlookers could watch as the Blackboard application and database was shut down.](https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/its/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/BbShutdown-300x258.jpg)
![HaverfordCIO Haverford CIO Joe Spadaro presses the enter key to shut down the Trico Blackboard server for good.](https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/its/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/HaverfordCIO-300x221.jpg)
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