I've been promising (threatening) a new competition for a while now, and with Liz on hols I thought there might be a chance for someone else to win a fabulous prize!...Please don't be put off by the challenge you do not need to know Bb inside out to play. There has been a lot of talk about Project NG (ie the next generation of Bb which incorporates a lot more ajax and dhtml ie is more googley/web2.0), so the competition is:
"If I were designing Bb NG I would......" (please complete this sentence in 15 words or less, ie 15 extra words) .
The scoring is as follows:
- a sensible feature/enhancement suggestion 1 point
- a humourous suggestion (as judged by a panel of experts) 2 points
- a suggestion that incorporates any of our new portantabulary in a way that makes sense in context 3 points.
Plus an overall star prize for the very, very best suggestion....enjoy....
Got to go get ready for session now, but will be on later to share with you the client appreciation party extravaganza and other sessions I've been to.
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If I were designing Bb NG I would.. develop really good* sharable student calendars, with colour co-ordinated module calendar synchronisation, integrated timetabling** and rss calendar feeds.***
* as opposed to really rubbish ones like we have now
** yes I know this is highly unlikely
*** 15 words is impossible to convey it's greatness, I could manage no less than 18..
If I were designing Bb NG I would.. illbeaglley* make integral much of Agilix's Backpack functionality, so whole modules maybe easiloaded* for offline use.
* It is obvious that I never quite grasped shumanteaus
**New Shumanteau to deal with unreasonable word limit (easily + download)
(It's jolly quiet here today..)
well it is looking good for you winning the competition so far - only 1/2 marks though for blatantly disregarding the word limit rules but excellent suggestions! - yes I have assimilated to much used word "excellent" into every sentence as a Bb-tribute.
...allow users to reorganise materials/menus in their online view (Backpack online) how they want.
have a glossary which will create your own lictionary automatically (which is actually a combination of name +ictionary for that user). So for me, brictionary.
allow dragging/dropping of files, menu items, etc. so is faster to change your site.
If I were desiging Bb NG I would...know I'd gone to the wrong office this morning.
..cater for students suffering with 'web2.ocd' by enabling RSS feeds.
...avoid an outbreak of 'shockerved' staff by keeping it simple and easy to use.
...allow 'e-qualion' by enhancing discussion boards and reducing confusion from 'multimenting' by highlighting new comments.
allow possibility that students can self-group
allow random grouping of students automatically
make it easier to create groups and put students in them
Some scores:
H - 1/2, 1 1/2, 3, 3, 3
B - 1, 3, 1, 1, 1
A - 2 +1 for making me laugh.
While I would of course love to take the credit for Helen L's 3 pointers - I'm afraid I can't..
did I get a bit of a point for using illbeagaley (sp)almost (not)in context though?
oops sorry - I'm just so used to HRs ultra-competitiveness, pleeeaasse forgive me.
Bonus point each for the Helens - one as an apology, one for the honesty thing - I'll revise the scores....
illbeagley - got 1 and 1/2 points - would have been 3 but too many words therefore 50% penalty :-)
Bah.
Tell you what if you ok my annual leave request I'll not whinge about it.. :)
A code-speak translator to assist non-developers when attending the developer's conference.
allow easier adding of tags to scholarks.
include a scanalyzer that scans and analyzes if you should be allowed to use Blackboard.
allow tagging of items, assignments, tests, etc to provide a theme-based path for learning.
oooh - Brian's been busy being "developed" - additional points for Brian (2,3,3,1=9)
a special guide for Andrew to stop him asking Mary/Brian/Helen stupid questions.
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(obviously I need a guide that reminds me to check the Bb-support tab, but then this is such a bad idea because I'd need a special special guide to remind me to check the... oh f***)
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