Hi,
Problems with Personal Portfolios are:
- the navigation menu has a fixed width,
- it does not extend the full length of the page,
- the buttons option does not work (and they are not buttons as we
would know them),
- if the template 3 navigation layout option is desired the tables in
webpages and artifacts must be no more than
approximately 75% in width (which can be a pain if you are building
a page with artifacts that have tables wider than
75%),
- when using the template 4 option the header is set above the
navigation menu .
It is also not particularly intuitive to use, ie the structure of pages
(which are really web pages) containing artifacts (which are files and
or other web pages) can get quite confusing for those not used to
building web pages (ie most staff and students).
Transferring existing "Items" from Basic Portfolios to artifacts is as
slick as superglue, ie you have to cut and paste the HTML code from the
basic portfolio item into the artifact or page.
I have only been investigating Personal Portfolios for as few hours and
am quite happy to take guidance for those on the list who have managed
to develop their use more fully. I would be delighted if those who have
developed Personal Portfolios could share them with the list to help us
all understand the potential. I have also asked Blackboard to provide
the same.
Oh and by the way (as we say in Glasgow), when you download a Basic
Portfolio which contains templates which contain links to multiple
files, the zip file contains only the first linked file in the template
and the html code for all the other links is changed to link to the
first file in the template. Now that is some trick. A ticket is in on
this one. In fact a ticket is in on all of these things.
regards,
Arthur Loughran
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Senior Lecturer
Centre for Academic and Professional Development (CAPD)
University of Paisley
Paisley PA1 2BE
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>>> Guy Ian Scott Pursey <[log in to unmask]> 08/05/2007
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Hi Paul,
We've been testing Blackboard's Application Pack 2. The main advantage
seems to be that it has "Personal Portfolios" in addition to what are
now called your "Basic Portfolios".
With "Personal Portfolios" you can create a layout/structure, with
labelled items already in place, which students can then access as a
template and use. From what I can see, you cannot provide page
templates
as with the "Basic Portfolios" but, last week, someone from Blackboard
told me that I was wrong on this but I'm waiting for them to get back
to
me on how it can be done. For the most part however, "Personal
Portfolios" do seem to be an improvement and, for us, they are the
main
driver for adopting 7.2.
I saw a demonstration of other 7.2 features last week, among them:
improved content management and manageable building blocks. To be
honest, I've yet to do any testing on these myself so wouldn't want to
say too much for now.
If you want any more information on the new portfolios feature though,
feel free to get in touch.
Hope this helps,
Guy
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