The final presentation of Seminar IM team Fruity.

1. Blackboard 11 A conceptual design

2. The Goal Write a concept for a replacement and/or upgrade of Blackboard

3. The Plan 1. Interview lecturers, coordinators, students & technical people 2. Review Internal UvT documentation on Blackboard 3. Analyze Student responses / requests on Blackboard Portal 4. Collect Scientific articles & 5. A lot of brainstorm-sessions

4. The Scope In the end, most of the Blackboard issues are not a matter of adding more features But of changing basic design

5. Four main issues User is effectively isolated There is no integration among features Flexibility is limited Blackboard is always years behind on reality

6. Problem 1: Isolatedusers Education and communication have changed a lot over time. Blackboard has not...

7. Blackboard as itisnow

8. Blackboard as itshouldbe

9. Solution 1: Groups & Profiles A lot more happens at a university than just courses Interactions are between People Groups of people

10. Proposed Structure

11. Pervasive communication Announcements (group / profile) Wall (group / profile) (quick) Message (profile) (group) Chat (group / profile) Video-conference (group)

12. Dashboard (example)

13. Problem 2: lack of integration Many different features That do many different things Or almost the same But no linking / integration

14. Solution 2: Integratecore components Communication File-sharing / collaboration Agenda / rostering

15. Example: File sharing

16. Problem 3: Inflexible system Key requirement for Blackboard:Stable, dependable system But many users want:FlexibilityCustomization

17. Solution 3: Modular design

18. Problem 4: Keeping up with reality Developments in society (internet) lead demand. Blackboard can only follow You cannot both maintain a stable, reliable system and be at the frontier of development

19. Bottom up development Blackboard has a lot of users, withsimilar needs and goalsA large creative community! Encourage users to create and implement solutions for their problems Share these solutions

20. Solution 4:The Blackboardmarketplace Make user-generated modules available on a marketplace Modular system; add modules or replace one component with another Modules as a source of income and/or prestige for universities, lecturers or even students

21. The Blackboardmarketplace Blackboard focus: providing core features and maintaining a stable core system

22. “You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.” Steve Jobs