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Blackbeard
How to make your Blackboard talk like a pirate
Damian SweeneySenior Learning and Teaching Consultant
University of MelbourneBlackboard Learning and Teaching Conference 2014
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The view from the crow’s nest
• Themes, brands and palettes• Language packs• JS hacks• Their use at UniMelb• Demonstration (this is where I walk the plank)• #piratepuns• #pirateselfie
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Gettin’ our bearin’s
• Blackboard since 2005• Subject presence is mandated• I work in academic support• But with a technical background
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Themes and palettes
• Used for institutional branding• More complicated since course themes• Other uses are available
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Themes @ UniMelb
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Themes @ UniMelb
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Themes @ UniMelb
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Themes @ UniMelb
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Themes @ UniMelb
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Themes @ UniMelb
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Themes @ UniMelb
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Language packs
• We prefer Australian spelling• Use local terms (Subject not Course,
Community not Organization) • Implement policy
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Language packs @ UniMelb
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Language packs @ UniMelb
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Language packs @ UniMelb
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Language packs @ UniMelb
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Language packs @ UniMelb
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Language packs @ UniMelb
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Language packs
• Creating our own language pack is a manual, time-consuming and error-prone task (either offline or through the GUI)
• We have to do it a lot more now that building blocks have their own language variables
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Language packs @ UniMelb
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Language packs @ UniMelb
• We wrote a tool in Python to make us a language pack
• Reduced time to generate language pack files to less than 10 minutes
• Allows better tracking of changes and devolved editing and creation
• Allows us to be frivolous
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Language packs @ UniMelb
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Language packs@ UniMelb
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JS Hacks
• Written by All the Ducks (Shane Argo and Wiley Fuller)
• Allows injection of code in different places in Blackboard based on a series of rules
• Can change the interface to make settings more obvious
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JS Hacks @ UniMelb
• Change defaults you can't set through the GUI• Fix bugs before Blackboard does• Fix building blocks that won’t be updated
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JS Hacks @ UniMelb
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JS Hacks @ UniMelb
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JS Hacks @ UniMelb
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JS Hacks @ UniMelb
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JS Hacks @ UniMelb
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JS Hacks @ UniMelb
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Blackboard to Blackbeard
• Get the palette right first• Ensure your defaults for the brand are part of
the theme and palette properties• Create a new theme each time so you can roll
back if necessary• Avoid editing brands to fix colours (watch out
for brand.css)
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Palette
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Palette
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theme.css
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Language pack creation
• Install and configure all your B2s• Download the en_US language pack• Edit the text files• Run the script• Check for new/changed fields• Modify the text files• Rinse and repeat
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Text files with changes
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Blackboard to Blackbeard
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Blackboard to Blackbeard
Demo time
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Acknowledgements
• Capt’n Travis Cox – who used to do this by hand
• First mate David Edquist – original author of the language pack script
• The rest of the swarthy crew at UniMelb• All o’ the Ducks (JS Hack B2):
http://www.alltheducks.com/