Blackboard

Creating a Blackboard Plugin to mimic the behavior of the Moodle "bridge1" plugin was begun in 2008 at the University of Rochester. The connection between the CMS and WeBWorK is minimal.

• Single sign in
  • Students sign in to the CMS. To do their homework they click on a WeBWorK link which automatically signs them in to WeBWorK, creates a homework set instance for them.
• Common grade book
  • When they have completed their homework their homework grades are transferred back to the gradebook in BB. (At first this was triggered by a cron job.)
• Configuration of homework sets is done using WeBWorK tools, not from BlackBoard or Moodle.

History:

Creating a Blackboard Plugin to mimic the behavior of the Moodle "bridge1" plugin was begun in at the University of Rochester. The connection between the CMS and WeBWorK is minimal. Students sign in to the CMS. To do their homework they click on a WeBWorK link which automatically signs them in to WeBWorK, creates a homework set instance for them. When they have completed their homework their homework grades are transferred back to the gradebook in BB. (At first this was triggered by a cron job.)

• Summer, 2008 -- Dan Arnold, supervised by Michael Gage. This was part of the UR summer intern program sponsored by the IT department of the University of Rochester.
• Summer, 2009 -- Martin Georgiev , supervised by Michael Gage and Paula Yandow-Reilley(and others from the UR IT department)
• November,2010 -- code base resurrected and cleaned up -- Paula Yandow-Reilley

• February, 2011 -- Blackboard plugin code base shared with University of Missouri
• Spring, Summer 2011 -- Further development by Srinivasan Devanathan, a student at University of Missouri in conjunction with (MU IT department) and supervised by Jason Aubrey. University of Oregon and University of Calgary are also beta testing and following results.