Specifically it was 7.1 Service Pack 1 (7.1.391) that introduced the
option to specify default availability of a building block in courses.
But nobody should be upgrading to 7.0 or 7.1.324 anymore at this time
anyway...not even as an intermediate step.
--Volker
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 9:01 AM, MURRAY M.R.
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Hi Phil,
>
> What version of Bb are you running? The solution might not be as much a
> script as an upgrade :-)
>
> This feature was introduced in v7 after requests at a UK Users conference.
> That's why there are two availability column in the Building Blocks table in
> v7 - the second one allows you to do exactly this.
>
> Malcolm.
>
>
> ---
> Dr Malcolm Murray
>
> Learning Technologies Team Leader
> IT Service
> Durham University
>
>
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> From: Blackboard/Courseinfo userslist
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Smith, Philip
> Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 2:48 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Building Block Availability within a Course
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>
>
> Hi
>
>
>
> We have recently installed a building block (Image Board) on our Blackboard
> test server. The building block appears in the Communication area on all
> existing courses and also with newly created ones.
>
>
>
> What we would like to do is make the building block unavailable across all
> courses so that an instructor can go into the Control Panel and click the
> checkbox to make it available for that course.
>
>
>
> So far I have found that you can either turn it on (at Sys Admin level) so
> that it appears in the Communication area for all to access, or you turn if
> off so that it doesn't appear at all and not even in the course Control
> Panel for it to be switched on by an instructor.
>
>
>
> Maybe an sql script could sort out the existing courses?
>
> For new courses I was wondering if there is a config file or a course
> template id you can specify in a snapshot file.
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> Any ideas would be much appreciated!
>
> Many thanks in advance.
>
>
>
> Phil
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