1 capability set - bullet. 2 common community problems too much information –institutions have to...
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Capability Set - Bullet
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Common Community Problems
Too Much Information– Institutions have to SPAM their faculty and students – Too many online sources of information – most with unique
passwords Too Little Communication
– Services offered only in-person during normal business hours– Distance and commuter students disconnected from the community– Under-utilized mentors, advisors, and students communities
Learning without Personalization– Online learning communities lack unique look and feel – Disciplines are unique but online learning is the same
Commerce Mayhem– Many departments have no online purchasing of required academic
products and services– Departments have dozens of distinct insecure, complex and costly
solutions
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CONNECTIONS PERSONALIZATION E-COMMERCE ADMINISTRATION
Community Building Tools
Portal Web Services
Channels / Modules
Role-based Info Delivery
Multi-Institution Mgmt
Wireless / PDA
e-Commerce
e-Marketplace
Enterprise Scalability
Multi-Language Support
System Integration
Standards
Building Blocks
Bb Community System Capability Set by : Category
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ANYTIME ANYWHERE ACCESS
INSTRUCTOR EFFICIENCY
ACCESS TO HIGH QUALITY CONTENT
STUDENT CENTERED LEARNING
Portal Web Services
Multi-Institution Mgmt
Wireless / PDA
e-Commerce
e-Marketplace
Enterprise Scalability
Multi-Language Support
Standards
Building Blocks
System Integration Channels / Modules
Role-based Info Delivery
Community Building Tools
Bb Community System Capability Set by : Benefit
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Connections
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Community Building Tools
Campus organizations Student or faculty
associations Community website
creation Community
communications Development and
management can be assigned to individual users or groups.
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Portal Web Services
Self-contained portal and/or service provider to multiple institutional portals
Central point of access for academic and administrative activities
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Channels / Modules
Deliver regularly updated headlines and content to users
Individual users can customize their personal web pages
Availability of modules is role-based
Deliver over 100 modules and channels
Build an unlimited number of additional ones
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Personalization
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Role-based Information Delivery
An undergraduate student,
a faculty member,
or faculty on another campus.
a Biology undergraduate student,
Targeted delivery of information and content based on institution role including:
– Portal tabs – Modules – Channels – Tools – Courses– Organizations
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Multi-Institution Branding and Management
Each schools can be given their own domain and look-and-feel
Each department can be given their own domain and look-and-feel
Each group can be given their own domain and look-and-feel.
Delegated Administration allows System Admins to assign administrative tasks to various individuals or groups
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Wireless / PDA
Access course and portal information through a wireless device or a PDA
Offline viewing of – Announcements– Calendar items– Tasks– Grades– Content– other information
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e-Commerce
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e-Commerce
Charge for items via a student’s campus card or credit card including
– Services– Events – Merchandise – Courses – Organization
membership – Other items
View their one-card account balance, transaction history, and deposit funds (when using Bb Transaction System)
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e-Marketplace
Online storefront Accepts Visa /
MasterCard / Discover / AMEX and campus one-card
Create unified online campus shopping environment
Delegate to multiple vendors
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Administration
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Enterprise Scalability
Proven ability to scale to hundreds of thousands of active users
Supports additional application servers to allow the implementation to grow with adoption
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Multi-Language Support
Enables institutions to run multiple languages on the same system
Supports foreign language courses and students
Supports most European Languages as well as multi-byte character sets such as Japanese and Chinese
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System Integration
Integrates with:– Student information
systems– Authentication
systems– Back-office systems
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Standards
System interoperability (IMS, SIF, OKI, etc.)
Content specifications (IMS, SCORM, NLN, etc.)
Privacy (FERPA) Accessibility (Section
508) Metadata (IMS, Dublin
Core, etc.)
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Building Blocks (Open APIs)
Free software development kit (SDK)
Documented application programming interfaces (APIs).
Create new functionality or integrate external systems with Blackboard products.