Blackboard: Content Collection

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Blackboard Content Collection

• Improvements

Kerry Fitzsimmons Bryan Valentine Tom
Borynski Ben Jackson Nick Sroka
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Overview

• What is Content Collection?
• Problems with Content Collection
• Workflows
• Interface
• Unnecessary Information
• Fixing the Problems
• Improvement outcomes

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What is Content Collection?

• The Blackboard Content Collection is a solution
  for collaborating on, controlling, editing, and
  storing reusable content items across course
  sites, the University and among colleagues at
  other institutions.

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What is Content Collection?

• Content Collection is a very useful tool for the
  facilitation on learning here at FSU. Here are
  some attributes of Content collection
• Versioning
• Global Permissions
• Workflows
• Data Store
• Public_html
• Communication
• Desktop Interface

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Problems

• Although Content Collection is a useful tool, it
  does come with a few problems.
• The workflow feature on Content Collection is
  complicated to use.
• In Institutional Content the user is provided
  with excess information.
• Because these and other problems exist with the
  Content Collection, student usage is down.

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Workflows

• While making workflows is not very complicated
  accessing an existing workflow can be counter
  intuitive.
• Steps
• 1) Click tools,
• 2) Find Workflow activities,
• 3) Choose either sent or received workflows,
• 4) Select desired workflow,
• 5) Finally, click content items of the work flow.
• It takes a total of 5 navigation click to access
  the data!

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Fixing Workflows

• Add new menu navigation button.
• My Workflows menu will show all work flows,
  sent and received, with all creation information.
• Once a workflow is selected, the content items in
  a user interface.

Insert a new navigation button called My
Workflows.
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Fixing Workflows

• Making the suggested changes will
• allow the user to access data in the accordance
  with the 3-Click-Rule.
• present the user with a intuitive interface that
  will guide him/her to what they what.
• promote usage through easy of use practices.
• lead the facilitation of learning.
• Kendall, Kenneth, and Julie Kendall. Systems
  Analysis And Design Sixth Edition. New Jersey
  Pearson Prentice Hall, 1992

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Unnecessary Information

• Content Collection contains superfluous and
  unnecessary information.
• An example of this unnecessary content is the
  information provided in institution content.
• This extra information slows down the process of
  loading and retrieving information from the
  Content Collection System by causing information
  overload to its users.

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Limiting Information

• Changing the Content Collection with our
  suggestions will
• allow more storage space to be used by the user.
• make browsing for college related information
  much easier.
• increase security of important information.
• create more student usage by decreasing the
  possibility of information overload.

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Limiting Information

• We can limit information by
• making the information provided be defaulted to
  the information provided by the users college.
  Such information can be placed in workflows.
• removing the Institutional Content button.
• making public workflows searchable and
  subscribe-able like groups are on social
  networking websites. This would allow
  unconventional consumers of the information to
  obtain required information without having to
  overload other users with unnecessary
  information.

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Summary

• Content Collection can be a beneficial tool for
  the facilitation of learning.
• Workflows can be altered cosmetically and
  navigationally to promote usage.
• Sometimes too much information can have a
  negative effect on users.
• If the changes are made to Content Collection,
  the survey shown here will generate different
  figures.

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Questions?

• Questions, comments, concerns, criticisms?