Designing Blackboard De-constructured: How USC is customising Blackboard | Tim Jensen, USC | TLCANZ17

An in-depth look at how the University of the Sunshine Coast is delivering its technical customisations to Blackboard. We will reveal and explain our enhanced theme, the new Dashboard homepage view launched this year and our Content Layout Tool used to build HTML artefacts directly into the content editor. This presentation will be particularly relevant to technical staff in your team who are designing and implementing customised system enhancements.

1. Designing Blackboard De-constructed : How USC is customising Blackboard

2. DESIGNING BLACKBOARD FOR YOUR UNIVERSITY

3. Sunshine Coast Health Institute (SCHI)

4. USC Moreton Campus

5. USC Caboolture Campus

6. 2016 11,602 2017 13,492 students

7. Other USC Campus locations: Sippy Downs Gympie Fraser Coast South Bank ATMC Sydney and Melbourne 2040

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9. Interface Design Visual Language Structure for Learning Content

10. How can you design a better learning experience for your students?

11. How can you make sure your Universities’ workflows, systems and visual language support, enhance and ‘ get out of the way’ so the learning can happen?

12. COURSE LIST

13. CONTENT LAYOUT TOOL

14. Get in on GITHUB: https:// github.com / timjensen-usc / bbContentLayoutTool

15. Live Demo

16. MY WORKFLOW ACTIVE THEME EDIT CSS IN THEME UPLOAD THEME (CSS COMPILED) DURING DEV THEME.css @import DEV.CSS DOWNLOAD THEME (UNCOMPILED CSS)

17. THANKS FOR LISTENING … ANY QUESTIONS?