Educational management wants to comprehend the uses of ICT in Education to get a grip on its effects due to the multiple annual investments in the Virtual Learning Environment. In the search to define educational parameters a vast amount of datasets is examined from 289 institutes using Blackboard. The focus is on the three dimensions growth, diffusion and uses. For such huge amounts of data the pre-processing approach is essential to choose the right subsections of the original abound rough data. This paper describes the approach of the pre-processing, of the data collection activities, and of the ongoing data analysis. (Contains 1 table and 8 figures.)