Jake Gannon and his colleague, Duncan Brown, at the University of Liverpool, England have developed a site where they publish a number of scripts for Blackboard users to access and add to in the spirit of Communities of Practice …
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Most of this article will be linux and oracle oriented, but it shouldn't be hard to translate it to a solaris or even a windows environment…
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Blackboard’s LMS platform has many excellent features, controlled by a simple, user-friendly interface. The ease by which Blackboard Administrators can configure their system without specialist knowledge is advantageous, but it does have a few small drawbacks…
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An abridged version of this article by Chye Seng LEE, Daniel Tiong Hok TAN, and Wee Sen GOH of the Centre for Educational Development at Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Singapore …
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eUreka , NTU’s very own online project work management system was made available for use by staff and students on 21 September 2004. This project work management system is an extension and a service of edveNTUre, Nanyang Technological University’s learning management system for online teaching and learning …
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In December ‘BLACKBOARD-DEVELOPERS@JISCMAIL.AC.UK’ - a new JISC mailing list for UK Building Block Developers - was launched at the Fifth Durham Blackboard Users Conference. This list aims to blend discussions of technology and pedagogy and …
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Spread throughout the greater Toronto area, Seneca College has five major campuses and several smaller ones. With a combined student body that now ...
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Since 2000, eLearning has taken off in a dramatic fashion in the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore. It has reached saturation levels in the adoption rates by the professors and students...
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Rollover is the transition between academic sessions - the creation of new courses, the copying of old courses, the enrolling of students into next year's modules... In essence, it should be a relatively straightforward process, and for those of us with the integration features of Enterprise it ought to be a breeze...
To briefly revisit the technical specifications to our particular implementation of Blackboard, we installed the Enterprise Edition of the Blackboard Learning System 5.6 running under the Microsoft Advanced Server Operating System, with an SQL Server 2000 back-end database. We fully integrated and automated our data imports using the Blackboard snapshot process...
One of the ‘unwritten duties’ of the Bb Administrator is keeping an eye on course sites and ensuring that there are no slip-ups, rogue sites, unwanted duplicate sites, abandoned sites etc.etc. On Bb installations with many hundreds of courses, instances of these anomalies can appear on even the most rigourously administered systems...
To get the Technical Matters section started, I have written the first of a series of articles which reflect some of the issues that I expect most Blackboard users have had to, or will have to, address. These have had a significant impact on our learners and staff during the implementation and rollout of Blackboard. The first is about a...
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