Access to the conference is controlled by the Blackboard system. All students in a class will have automatic access as soon as they are enrolled. Thread , Lesley's current conferencing system. Thread system will eventually be retired , to be replaced by the functionality available in Blackboard. Listservs will remain a separate service, unrelated to Blackboard, and will continue to be supported.
Current plans call for the net.
Thread system to be retired in January, 2002. You can continue to create new net. Thread conferences if you will not need the conference beyond January, 2002. Until the net. Thread system is retired , it will continue to serve its current set of conferences unless faculty request specific net.