Blackboard presentation about what's new after the upgrade to 9.1 SP5

1. Blackboard Upgrade 2011
What’s New
Ir Ellen Zillig-Straatman, SSC-ICT Education Technology
29-08-2011
Delft
University of
Technology
Challenge the future

2. Overview
• Who Am I?
• Blackboard Upgrade
• Known Issues
• New
• Questions
• This Week
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3. Who Am I?
Ellen Zillig-Straatman
• New ‘FAB’ (Functional Manager) of Blackboard
• Working at Delft University of Technology since November 2008
• Trainee
• Nov 2008: Education and Student Affairs at the Faculty of
Architecture
• Nov 2009: Education and Student Affairs at the Faculty of
Technology, Policy and Management
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4. Blackboard upgrade
• Upgrade to version 9.1 SP5
• New support software
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5. Known issues
• Unenrolltool unavailable
• Multiple file upload not working
• Announcements
• Don’t move the bar to the bottom of the page!
• Guest are not able to see announcements. (even when guests are
allowed)
• Slow performance, when there are large numbers of announcements
• Grade Center
• With multiple group discussion boards, the wrong cells are grayed
out.
• Exported tab-delimited files (.xls) don’t open correct in Excel. Use
comma-delimited files (.csv) instead!
• Detailed overview on blackboard.weblog.tudelft.nl
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6. Known Issues - Browser
• Blackboard is not supported in all browsers
We advise to use Firefox as your Browser
when using Blackboard!
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7. New
• General Enhancement
• My Courses Plus
• Grade Center
• Web Folder
• Peer & Self Assessment
• My Timetable
• Support Software
• Blackboard Collaborate
• OC Focus Tab
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8. General Enhancement
• Portal function – modules are easier to find
• Improved Test module
• Improved Notification Settings
• Enhancement in general – bug fixes
• Sorting on Last Name
• Security
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9. My Courses Plus
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10. Grade Center
• Improved performance
• Several features have been enhanced to improve communication
between the instructor and students and make navigation easier.
• A new ‘Needs Grading’ page were the instructor can view all attempts
ready for grading and sort and filter the items.
Please join my presentation about the Grade Center
next Thursday for more detailed information about
the Grade Center.
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11. Web Folder
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12. Web Folder
Friday there will be a presentation about the ‘Content System’ and
‘Course Files’ by Willem van Valkenburg. Please join this
presentation for more detailed information!
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13. Peer & Self Assessment
• A lot of bug fixes
Please join the presentation next Wednesday about
Assessments by Meta Keijzer-de Ruijter for more
detailed information!
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14. My Timetable
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15. My Timetable
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16. Support Software
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17. Support Software
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18. Blackboard Collaborate
• Update
• Wimba Classroom
• Blackboard Wimba IM (Instant
Messaging)
Please join the presentation about ‘On-
line Collaboration’ by Kees van Kuijen
next Tuesday for more detailed
information!
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19. OC Focus
• An extra tab on the ‘My Staff Info’ tab
• All information, tutorials and modules can be
accessed from one place
Launched approximately mid September
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20. Questions?
E-Learning Support
• els@tudelft.nl
• 89194
Ellen Zillig-Straatman
• E.H.M.Zillig-Straatman@TUDelft.NL
• 89098
• Twitter: @ezillig
Blackboard.weblog.tudelft.nl
BBfaq.weblog.tudelft.nl
Twitter: @TUDelftBb
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21. Start
presentations
at bout 12.45
Just Come
and Walk
in
• Tea and coffee
• With a roll
• Is being served
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22. Questions? Remarks?
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