{"id":352,"date":"2008-05-22T22:03:21","date_gmt":"2008-05-23T03:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/2008\/05\/22\/bb-europe-some-new-features\/"},"modified":"2008-05-22T22:03:21","modified_gmt":"2008-05-23T03:03:21","slug":"bb-europe-some-new-features","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/2008\/05\/22\/bb-europe-some-new-features\/","title":{"rendered":"Bb Europe: some new features"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While the B in Blackboard might just as well stand for Behemoth, right now it&#8217;s the only game in town for us. Meanwhile, BbWorld Europe continues apace and the bloggers are buzzing. Niall Sclater of Open University has a longish post that highlights some of the features promised in a future version of Bb, aptly name Bb NG (Next Generation).<br \/>\nHere are a few bits&#8211;the rest is available at: <a href=\"http:\/\/sclater.com\/blog\/?p=95\">http:\/\/sclater.com\/blog\/?p=95<\/a><br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<br \/>\nMichael L Chasen, Blackboard\u2019s CEO, described the three principles of Project NG (Next Generation) which is bringing WebCT and Blackboard together into one platform: Student achievement, Openness and Web 2.0. So what does that actually mean?<br \/>\nThere is an excellent instructor dashboard. . . It informs tutors about what\u2019s new, what needs attention, which students have handed in work late, which haven\u2019t logged in for a week etc.<br \/>\nThe authoring facilities are also getting increasingly sophisticated. A course management block allows you to drag and drop blocks of content around the page, building new items and adding assessments, communication tools etc from drop-down menus. One of these menus is for mashups allowing you to integrate Google Earth maps, Flickr, YouTube and other resources easily into courses.<br \/>\n\u201cCommunities\u201d can be set up by students to create their own social learning spaces if the institution wants to make this possible.<br \/>\nThe student profile has been redesigned and looks good \u2013 something you could imagine would give a greater sense of ownership to the student.<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<br \/>\nWe&#8217;ll see&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the B in Blackboard might just as well stand for Behemoth, right now it&#8217;s the only game in town for us. Meanwhile, BbWorld Europe continues apace and the bloggers are buzzing. Niall Sclater of Open University has a longish &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/2008\/05\/22\/bb-europe-some-new-features\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/hag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}