BlueJeans to Sunset at Georgia Tech May 30

Georgia Tech will sunset the BlueJeans videoconferencing resolution on Monday, Could 30. Campus users are inspired to migrate saved recordings ahead of then.  

The BlueJeans decommission is a end result of a evaluate by the Movie Collaboration Overview (VCR) Committee. The group was recognized to assess new videoconferencing options for educational system supply and collaboration against present solutions. Pushed by Georgia Tech Skilled Training (GTPE) and the Business office of Facts Technological know-how (OIT), the committee brought in scholar, school, and workers voices from across the Institute to establish online video collaboration provider offerings. In the end, strategies to sunset BlueJeans and WebEx (other than for the Georgia Tech Research Institute*) were being formalized. 

The VCR Committee also announced a delicate start of the Zoom video collaboration system.

“Not only did Zoom, to a massive extent, fulfill our committee’s conditions, but it is also a single of the most widely utilized online video collaboration instruments,” Yakut Gazi, Ph.D., associate dean for Learning Systems at GTPE, mentioned earlier this year. “Many of our learners, college, and team have participated in Zoom conferences for the duration of and even just before the pandemic, which we anticipate will aid adoption at Ga Tech.” Because the gentle launch, the platform has facilitated above 2,700 meetings and webinars by Tech people. 
 
In preparing for the changeover from BlueJeans, pupils, school, and team are encouraged to migrate stored lecture, assembly, and party recordings to Kaltura MediaSpace via the BlueJeans Video clip Exporter instrument. The exporter will shift a utmost of 5 videos concurrently, with every video clip commonly using a couple minutes to add. Archived movies can consider up to five hrs, based on the video’s length.  

OIT has revealed an 11-step illustrated knowledge short article to guideline campus people for the duration of the recording transfer procedure. Campus customers who want additional help can also submit a help request by way of the Services and Help web page at gatech.service-now.com/property.  

In addition to Zoom, Ga Tech will continue to offer you and help Microsoft Teams, which presents videoconferencing, safe file storage, chat, assembly, calling, and file-sharing capabilities. 

OIT will do the job with the Ga Tech local community throughout the relaxation of the spring semester to put together for the transition from BlueJeans. Impending communications will share extra information.  

The BlueJeans Movie Exporter software can be accessed at mover.bluejeans.gatech.edu.

*The Ga Tech Investigation Institute will carry on to use its version of WebEx (gtri.webex.com).