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Hi Mark,

Text such as the name of the tool and the content type are declared in
the bb-manifest file that comes with the building block. Meddling with
this would invalidate your agreement with the vendor.

I think your best bet is to ask them to change it for you. If a lot of
people agree then you might have a chance...

Malcolm :-)

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Dr Malcolm Murray

Learning Technologies Team Leader
IT Service
Durham University 

-----Original Message-----
From: Blackboard/Courseinfo userslist
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Patricia B
Murray
Sent: Wed 21 June 2006 10:01
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Campus Pack

Hiy Mark,

We have the Campus Pack Building Block and I am trying to encourage
staff to use it at the moment.

I would agree that blogs and wikis are more apt terminology. Don't know
how you could change it when staff select as a content entry. For the
students though could refer to it however you like in the name or
descriptive.

The second bit is just a case of getting the settings right. So for
instance: 

Individual blogs for the students, invisible to other students and noone
can comment:
Group members (All Students)
Do u want to allow students to view posts by other members > N Do u want
to allow students to comment on Journal Entries > N

Individual blogs for the students, invisible to other students and
Instructors can comment:
Group members (All Students)
Do u want to allow students to view posts by other members > N Do u want
to allow students to comment on Journal Entries > Y


Hope this helps, Trish


-----Original Message-----
From: Blackboard/Courseinfo userslist
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Mark Gamble
Sent: 20 June 2006 08:22
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Campus Pack

Anybody using Campus Pack? We've just installed it and while it does
excellent things, I'd really like it if 

(1) I could easily identify Journals as Blogs and Teams as Wikis (terms
students are now VERY familiar with)

and

(2) I could allow students and groups to create their own blogs and
wikis independently and privately, working on them until they're ready
to publish. After all, it seems to me, they're not blogs and wikis in
the public, publishing sense - personally I wouldn't want my
work-in-progress to be visible to everyone on the site.

If I'm alone in this, fine. If you share my view, might we share it with
Learning Objects as a group?

--
Regards
Mark

Mark Gamble
Head of Learning Technology
University of Luton
Tel (+44)1582 489260 Fax (+44)1582 489259 Mob 077 200 686 05 Mobex 6360
Int ext 2260

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