Barbara Watson wrote:
> It was agreed that it would be helpful to continue these
> discussions so a meeting has been arranged in Washington following the
> Blackboard conference. This meeting will include some other European
> users. The aim of the meeting is to discuss how we would like Blackboard
> to be developed and supported in the future and not specific technical
> queries. I would like to take the opportunity to try to represent a
> broad UK perspective so if you have ideas/issues that you would like to
> be discussed then please could you email them to me by Fri 7 Feb.
Barbara
Sending this to the list in case it illicits comments.
There is, I think, a wish list thread on the Bb Bb at swansea. This may be a
useful starting point for discussions. See:
http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind0203&L=blackboard-usergroup&P=R1053&I=-3
for another point for Bb about database queries and details of the swansea
bug.
The only specfic thing I would mentioned is the possibility of incorporating
some of the key building blocks into the standard software release (so you
don't have to pay extra for what should really be included by default).
The main Building Block function that I have in mind is the new content flag
(an indicator that there is new content or messages in a discussion). I
haven't seen this in action but have herd reports that it works OK. We are
thinking of installing the demo so if anyone on the list has used it I would
be interested to hear - particularly if you had problems! This should for my
mind be a standard function of such a system - having to post an
announcement when you add new content is very time consuming and the
alternative is that the students have to check all sections to see if
anything new has been added.
ben
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