Photo Rosters

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Photo Rosters

• At

Bucknell
Mike Weaver
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Primary motivation for Photo Rosters

• Helping faculty to learn
• names and faces of their students!

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( Online Directory )
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vs.
Public pictures
Private pictures
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And now to the Photo Rosters
in Blackboard
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• Photo Rosters have been
• wildly popular with faculty!

They use it as a mechanism to
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• Ive heard countless anecdotes about how they
  used to cut up the printed directory to create
  their own photo roster.
• Faculty who have never used Blackboard are now
  getting into Blackboard to access the photo
  rosters!

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Features, Conditions Caveats

• Photo Rosters are available for all courses and
  organizations in Blackboard.
• All Bucknell courses are automatically created in
  Blackboard, and students are automatically
  enrolled.

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Features, Conditions Caveats, cont.

• The photo roster is only available to the
  instructor/manager of the Blackboard
  course/organization.
• If the person generating the roster is faculty or
  staff, it will include private pictures.
  Otherwise, it will only include public pictures.
• For example, a student who is president of a
  fraternity can generate a photo roster of his
  fraternity that will include all public pictures
  but no private pictures.

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Features, Conditions Caveats, cont.

• Photo Rosters are only available in the campus
  intranet.

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Technical Challenges (for me)

• My first Building Block in Blackboard.
• Pictures (JPEGs) need to be displayed as part of
  the photo roster, but cant be independently
  accessible to the web server.

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The End

• The End

Mike Weaver Bucknell University mweaver_at_bucknell.e
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