enterprise blackboard @ havering college of further and higher education ashley garner vle manager

EnterpriseEnterpriseBlackboard @ Blackboard @ Havering CollegeHavering College of Further and Higher Educationof Further and Higher Education

Ashley GarnerVLE Manager

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College BackgroundCollege Background

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VLE System InformationVLE System Information

Enterprise, currently v6.2.3Blackboard launched in February 2005All VLE courses created automatically from UNIT-e (MIS System) using overnight snapshotAll students automatically enrolled

Tutors must make course available

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The HistoryThe History

HCFHE Struggling with LearnWise (LW)LW was purchased because it integrated well with UNIT-e (eventually)LW also ran most NLN materials wellDecided to switch platformsI had chosen Bb @ Lambeth College but they could not justify the cost for Enterprise

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The CriteriaThe Criteria

1. It had to work2. We had to be able to migrate content3. It had to connect to UNIT-e4. It had to run SCORM materials5. It had to be easy to use6. It had to be supported by a reliable

company7. “Mission critical” for Inspection – cost

not a large consideration

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Why Blackboard Why Blackboard Enterprise?Enterprise?

Basic would not give us:UNIT-e ConnectionSCORM Playing

We have installed Building Blocks:Document Unpackager (used to copy courses from LW)Seneca Who's Online

We have a Java developer

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The Custom Enrolment The Custom Enrolment ModuleModule

We paid Bb Services for our installation and snapshot integration We didn’t want bulk creation of all students in BbAt a student’s first login attempt their details will be authenticated against LDAP and then BbenrolmentsBbenrolments is a view on the UNIT-e database

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The Custom Enrolment The Custom Enrolment ModuleModule

Bbenrolments has details of all of the student’s college course codesThe tool then enrols the students on the correct Bb coursesThe student sees the right course(s) if the tutors have made them available

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Thames Gateway CollegeThames Gateway College

Partnership with Barking CollegeCentre of Excellence for Manufacturing and Engineering (CEME)All 3 College preciously used LWBarking went to Moodle

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The ChoicesThe Choices

Bb Enterprise, Moodle or Microsoft Learning Gateway?Developed two comparison grids:

Pros and ConsCosts

Assign rank and weight for each grid

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The ChoicesThe Choices

Using EduTools VLE Comparison Tool (http://www.edutools.info/) to compare features:

Bb gets 7.43Moodle gets 6.93

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The ChoicesThe Choices

Other Issues:CostIntegration with college systemsAuthenticationEnrolment of Staff and StudentsProduct Support (version variation/customisation)Product Development and Testing