Content with the Blackboard Content System: One Year Later

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Content with the Blackboard Content System? One
Year Later

• Presented By
• Anne Judd (CSU, East Bay)
• Dennis Hood (Princeton University)
• David Middleton (Seton Hall University)

March 1, 2006
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Content System Storage in Use per Area
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Content System Storage in Use per Area
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Content System Area Tool Availability
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Content System Menu Display Options
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Content System Storage Quotas
actually unlimited, but additional space must be
requested
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Content System Future Direction (2006)

• Develop specific training/documentation
• Develop Portfolio templates to fit National and
  State requirements
• Raise campus awareness of CS
• Waiting for added functionality
• Continued integration with SAN

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Content System Future Direction (2006)

• Incorporate CS storage with existing NAS system
• Make CS means for faculty to share large files
  with colleagues outside PU
• Make CS available to students
• Make Portfolio available to students
• Building block for displaying ereserve metadata

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Content System Future Direction 2006

• Extend Standards Block to Nursing
• Support/Extend Portfolio development needs
• Continued use of CS to support Core Curriculum

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Content System Enhancement Requests 2006

• Ability to email or send passes to entire folders
• Functionality to clean-up content of removed
  users
• Functionality to mass populate course w/ CS
  content
• Ability to unify established NAS / SAN systems
• Make Share feature more collaborative so
  outsiders can add content

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Content System Enhancement Requests (contd)

• Make it easy for recipient to remove portfolios
• Ability to import portfolios into different
  systems
• More flexibility on how portfolio is exported
• Ability to restrict templates to specific roles
  or groups
• Make it easier to search for a particular file in
  an instructors Content Area 

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Content System Enhancement Requests (contd)

• Learning Object interface with MERLOT and other
  repositories
• Create a CS Bookmark module for the Portal
• Ability to display e-reserve metadata
• Better functionality for opening in the LS
  compressed web sites stored in the CS
• Allow text box editor to be used just in CS

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Content System Enhancement Requests (contd)

• Functionality to link editable CS areas courses
  for student use
• Better bridges to learning system
• Change default location when connecting from a
  course
• More flexible Portfolio system
• Expanded Portfolio development tools

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Portfolio/CS Standards Building Block

• Assessment System tied to Educational Objectives
• Automatically Generated Portfolio
• Report Generator
• e-Portfolios for Assessment and Accreditation
• Seton Hall University
• The George Washington University
• Wednesday March 1 430 PM

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Seneca Content System My Website

• CS building block demo -- create/maintain
  personal, organizational, institutional website
  with short URLs
• Session Title - Faculty and Student File Storage
  with the Blackboard Content System Two Case
  Studies
• Wednesday, 130pm

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Content with the Blackboard Content System?

• Follow up Contact(s)
• Dennis Hood hood_at_princeton.edu
• Anne Judd ajudd_at_csueastbay.edu
• David Middleton middleda_at_shu.edu
• IF YOU ONLY REMEMBER 1 THING (05)
• Though it must to evolve to serve our needs more
  fully, the Blackboard Content System is the right
  model for course and student content management.