1. My Blackboard has Changed, Please Help? Tip:Go to the Blackboard Support Jukebox for Bb Learners On-the-Go With gratitude to Blackboard (EMEA) for sponsoring the collaborative content creation activities by supplying us with an “out of the box” installation of Bb 9.1.
8. Avans UniversityFacts and Figures 3 cities Breda, Tilburg and ‘s-Hertogenbosch (19 educational units) 3 Xplora Learning centers 25000 current VLE Blackboard users 10 year Blackboard history Currently using Bb Learn 9.1 (with CMS Course Delivery, Community Engagement, Content Management) > 8000 Bb basic-portfolio’s Active member of Dutch speaking Bb User Group (NLBbUG ) Bert FrissenTeam coordinator Virtual-Learning Support Rick DijsVLE Bb-Admin 3/25
15. What is NLBbUG? NLBbUG Dutch speaking Bb user group The origin of the content In the Dutch-speaking countries every institute was creating their own Support-material, all in different data-formats… 5/25
16. Where is NLBbUG located? 6/25 Well, see that little red circle?
33. When Bert is not @ work, he often plays in a jazzband….While drumming, his mind starts buzzing around….. Music…. Jukebox…. Singles….Support…. Items….Support-Singles in SupportJukebox the EUREKA moment 13/25
34. What makes it a Jukebox? Input for the Jukebox are the Support-singles It is a virtual device that contains all Bb Support-materials It allows you to search and find the a specific Support-item/single A supportsingle obtains one specific support-item Updating support-items is simply a matter of replacing one single, without shutting down the jukebox Custom made support is easily addable by creating and inserting a new single NLBbUG Support-singles Output are the Avans-converted Support-singles.Presented in our Wordpress-environment Avans Support-singles 14/25
35. How can a Bb-user reach the Jukebox? There are several entrances available: The help link in Blackboard Through the direct Jukebox-URL Module within Blackboard Facebook Widget 15/25
44. It’s easy to export the Support-items database to an XML-file;XML-files can easily be imported into another Wordpress environment or exchanged into another playerplatform
45. The only thing to do besides that, is to make sure the files, pictures and movies are also migrated (FTP)17/25
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47. If I want a hardcopy I can simply print the Support-single
48. I can give feedback on the support-singles through comments
82. Thank You Bert Frissen Avans University of applied sciences hma.frissen@avans.nl @friszb Rick Dijs Avans University of applied sciences mp.dijs@avans.nl @AvansSupport Special thanks to JiskaMemelink for assisting Avans. Graphics by Rick Dijs