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Building with Blocks

Getting Started, Open Source and Collaboration. Building with Blocks. Building with Blocks: Dartmouth College. Dartmouth College Blackboard user since 1998, Blackboard Academic Suite (nee Enterprise) user since 2002 Extensions we have developed

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Building with Blocks

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  1. Getting Started, Open Source and Collaboration Building with Blocks

  2. Building with Blocks: Dartmouth College Dartmouth College Blackboard user since 1998, Blackboard Academic Suite (nee Enterprise) user since 2002 Extensions we have developed Photo Roster, My Courses Module, User Management Tools, and currently developing Blackboard Administrator Tools Why develop extensions? We feel that extensions meet two essential needs: Enhance the User's Blackboard experience Provide added functionality

  3. Photo Roster The Photo Roster provides instructors with photos of enrolled students. Previously hand built by Assistants Additionally provides an email list for creating groups in email client of choice and a version formatted for optimal printing

  4. My Courses Module The My Courses Module was written to provide informative and flexible display of a User's Course memberships. Courses are separated into current term and other term groupings. Disabled courses are visible to students.

  5. Building with Blocks: The Getting Started Guide What is the Getting Started Guide? The Getting Started Guide is an entry level guide to developing Blackboard Academic Suite extensions with Building Blocks Inside you will find instructions for setting up your IDE simple to follow examples of extensions which show how to access the datastore and display information on Users, Courses, and Course memberships, and use the Tag libraries for a Blackboard look and feel complete photo roster application for development purposes

  6. Building with Blocks: Open Source Why Open Source? “When programmers can read, redistribute, and modify the source code for a piece of software, the software evolves.” -http://www.opensource.org Economy of effort What about licensing? There are many flavors of Open Source Licenses (see http://www.opensource.org/), consult your legal office to determine which is best for your campus

  7. Building with Blocks: Open Source What about Support? as-is or no support limited support "community" support What are my long term obligations? they are what you want them to be pass the project on

  8. Building with Blocks: Collaboration Why Collaborate? Collaboration offers many of the same key benefits of Open Source Collaboration produces an extension which meets the needs of more institutions Collaboration develops a support network We learn from each other

  9. Building with Blocks: Finding Help Finding help is easy Use the Blackboard Bbdevnet forum Use Behind Blackboard knowledge bases Use the Bb Open Source email list We've all been there and in most cases you will get a response on the same day! Use Playing in Building Blocks http://www.dur.ac.uk/malcolm.murray/blog Think Community!

  10. Mark O'Neil, Dartmouth College Mark.A.ONeil@Dartmouth.EDU Thank You! Useful Resources Getting Started Guide http://www.blackboard.com/docs/r7/71/en_us/admin/ bbas_building_blocks_getting_started_SDK.zip or http://tinyurl.com/hnbjq Bb Open Source Blackboard Developer Network http://www.bb-opensource.org/http://www.blackboard.com/extend/dev/BbDN Behind the Blackboard support site http://www.blackboard.com/support

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