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Comment on Meeting with Joe Doak, Real Estate and Planning by Anne Marie Cunningham

Anne Marie Cunningham — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 17:39:45 +0000

Hello,

Can I check what has happened with the tagging and recommender widgets? Are they available anywhere?

Thanks!

Comment on Legal Skills workshops — first impressions by patparslow

patparslow — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 11:01:58 +0000

Alongside this we have been observing students left to their own devices trying to struggle to complete the instruction “You need to create a portfolio in Blackboard with ten pages in it, and share it with the instructors”. The students are studying computing related subjects and have previously (last year) created a portfolio, so are typically confident that they know what to do. The observations (which I am not mentioning for now) show a marked difference in student experience and efficacy of portfolio creation to those I believe have been seen in the pilots run by Guy

Comment on The Design of the Portfolio Feedback Widget by Guy

Guy — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 14:58:32 +0000

Thanks! Coincidentally, I’m actually putting together a similar post now, based on feedback I’ve received concerning the Portfolio Templates widget. Should be up soon.

Comment on The Design of the Portfolio Feedback Widget by Nadja Guggi

Nadja Guggi — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 14:44:50 +0000

Great to see some of the thinking and figuring out that’s going on behind the scenes rather than just the finished, polished results! I like your method of entering into a dialogue with yourself – literally. More please

Comment on TagAll, IE and Houston We Have A Problem! by karlund

karlund — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 13:49:36 +0000

The name “Tag All” comes from the days when each tag was individually tagged using a button, and it was general consensus that a tag-all at once feature was needed.

It has a strange unbehaviour in a less-modern browser which unfortunately tend to be used a lot! I’ve tried using ajax libraries and hand coding it with no luck! It is simple code, so it really ought to work, at it probably is something really stupid missing somewhere.

Comment on TagAll, IE and Houston We Have A Problem! by patparslow

patparslow — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 13:37:30 +0000

The ‘Tag All’ button confused me immensely, I must admit – I was left wondering why I should have to tag everything on my screen at the same time. That could just be that I would expect it to be “Add tags” or something – “Tag All” left me worrying that the tag I had typed in for item A would be applied to item B.

However, the bigger problem at the moment appears to be that despite the upgrade on the server, as things stand, it still doesn’t work. I will investigate further, as the functionality is great on proper browsers (!)

Comment on Introducing… Pat by Anne Marie Cunningham

Anne Marie Cunningham — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 09:45:00 +0000

Ha! Glad I ‘know’ someone on this project ad it seems VERY interesting!
AM

Comment on Introducing… Pat by Guy Pursey

Guy Pursey — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 08:50:04 +0000

Thought I ought to give you a public welcome, Pat — Welcome! Looking forward to further discussion and to the upcoming blog posts.

Comment on Progress (of a sort) with the e-Portfolio Templates widget by karlund

karlund — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 14:44:38 +0000

I thought of a solution to the insertion problem:

There is an B2 class called blackboard.platform.plugin.PluginUtil which has a (undocumented) method getInsertToVtbePostUrl() which I use (and unfortunately have to use) to get information from a B2 into the Vtbe.

If you had that Url you could post directly to the Vtbe. We could set up a simple B2 that returns that URL to your javascript.

This solution has the obvious drawback that it will rely on said B2 being in the system in a consistent manner. I.e. each course using your code must install the B2 and change the URL to point to their “local” B2.

Not sure if this solution is much better than yours actually…

Comment on TagAll, IE and Houston We Have A Problem! by karlund

karlund — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 09:16:54 +0000

I was actually considering this option myself. I don’t think support of it would become too difficult. We can always remove the feature once BB updates to SP6.