Hi,

 

There is already a  module is available from:

http://projects.oscelot.org/gf/project/welcomemodule/frs/

 

this module replicates the old functionality by just adding the words ‘ Welcome, Whoever’ message (see attached screenshot)

 

The module is a simple single pages jsp, if you have experience with jsp coding and building blocks it wouldn’t be hard to customize it.

The instructions I http://kb.blackboard.com/display/KB/Restoring+the+welcome+message+to+the+My+Institution+tab show you how to download the module, add it to the system as a building block and then how to add it as a header to a tab.

 

You shouldn’t  need to redesign the tab as it just adds the message in the header, unless you are already using a different module as the header, of course,

 

Regards

Garry

 

Useful feedback everyone.

 

It seems that you have to use it as the header on the Tab (I thought it would replace the tab name bit but that’s still there) – we have student and staff welcome headers (HTML modules) already which are designed to be display across the two module columns – so I guess we would need to do a tab redesign to put that content into a skinny module instead - unless I am missing a trick?

 

 

 

Hi All, Malcolm,

 

Just to throw my 2c into the pot.

One thing to note is the welcome message will/did only appear if the tab is tab 1_1 (the default my institution)

As far as I can tell it is not  supposed to be there anymore. It was taken out for a few reasons on being because it only worked on tab 1_1.

There is a bug report in for this AS-119090

 

BER-5606 is an enhancement request to put the functionality back in but to do a better job by detailing the requirements. Personally I think having it as a module that can be added to the header of any tab is probably the best solution anyway.

 

http://kb.blackboard.com/display/KB/Restoring+the+welcome+message+to+the+My+Institution+tab shows how to do this and where to get the building block with the module in it.

 

Regards

Garry

 

 

 

Leo,

 

That’s a standard feature which occurred up to, but not including Release 9 on the “My Institution” tab, but no other.

 

Hope that helps,

 

Malcolm.

 

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Dr Malcolm Murray

Learning Technologies Team Leader
IT Service
Durham University

 

Hi, hoping someone knows about this gizmo (I think it’s a building block rather than a setting anywhere).

 

On some Blackboards, at the top of your tab, you get Welcome, [Name] displayed, instead of just the default thing which is that it displays the name of the tab again, which is already written on the tabby bit.

 

Does thing ring any bells and where could I find it?

 

Thanks!

Leo

 

Leo Havemann
Birkbeck, University of London

 

 

 

 

 

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