Standards and NLN Content Playing Capabilities within

Blackboard

Guildford College of Further and Higher Education

Jerry Dowds,Customer Solutions Manager

Tuesday, December 02, 2003

Agenda

Blackboard Building Blocks Architecture, standards and NLN Content

Blackboard Course/Class and Standards Standards Groups:

Groups we are involved in Data intrinsic to those groups Transportation formats used

Future architecture: Data to support Transportation layers to support Groups to support

Blackboard Content Player and NLN Material Enabling the Content Player ( Building Block ) NLN Material in Blackboard

Blackboard Building Blocks Architecture

Blackboard and Standards

KEY:

Course Cartridge:IMS C&P 1.1.3:Export of Bb LS Course:Import of Bb LS Course:

SCORM 1.2 Complaint:

Import of SCORM:

Blackb

oard

Learn

ing

System

Co

urse

Blackboard created content

Course Settings-button style-button color

-etc

MS LRN 3.0

Building Blocks

Threaded DiscussionBoard Postings

Synchronous ToolArchives

Assessment(s)

AnnouncementsCalendar Events

URLLinks

Text Areas

NLN ContentCOURSE

COURSECOU

RSE

NLN Content and Blackboard

NLN Content and Blackboard

NLN Content Options

Navigation Control TypeSequential or User Choice

Do you want to make the content visible?

Do you want to track number of views?

Course statistics reports

Do you want to add scores to the Online Grade book?

NLN Content and Blackboard

NLN Content and Blackboard

NLN Content and Blackboard

NLN Content and Blackboard

NLN Content and Blackboard

Summary

Continue to work closely with Standards bodies

Final stages of development of Content Player

NLN Content type to be available from Drop Down Menu

Questions/ Comments?

Jerry Dowds Customer Solutions Manager

Europe , Middle East and Africajdowds@blackboard.com+44 777 0605497