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“I love the Tabs”
Customising the Learning Environment to Enhance Student Success
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“I love the Tabs”
John LangfordLearning Technology Development Systems [email protected]
Carol ChattenLearning Technology Development [email protected]
Megan JussLearning Technology Development [email protected]
Session Structure
1. Jargon Busting2. Edge Hill Customisation 3. Technical Foundations4. Design & User Experience
Jargon Busting – Tabs, Modules, Secondary Roles
ROLES – groups define the content that can be seen TABS – are pages displayed in the Blackboard navigation bar MODULES – are content panels that appear on TAB pages*
*not modules in the educational sense
Edge Hill Customisation – 1st Year
Sept 2013 – Dec 2014 Jan 2014 - Apr 2014 May 2014 - Sept 2014
Custom Resources Pilot
• Faculty & Department Secondary
Roles Automation for Faculty of
Health & Social Care students
• Custom Tabs & Modules Content
for Nursing & ODP Resources
• Delegated Administration for
Academic Librarian Content
Management
Custom Resources Full Launch
• Faculty & Department Secondary
Roles Automation for ALL students
– still manually processed for staff
• Custom Tabs & Modules Content
for ALL Faculty-Department
Resources
Institutional Set-Up
• Installation
• Portal integration
• Generic Tabs & Modules Content
for Library Resources, Communities
& Help
Edge Hill Customisation – 2nd Year
Sept 2014 – Dec 2014 Jan 2015 - Apr 2015 May 2015 - Sept 2015
Library Systems Integration
• Custom My Library Account
Module
• Library Search Tool for all
Custom Homepage Content
• Custom Tabs & Modules Content
for Faculty/Departments on
Homepage – Psychology, Media,
Clinical Education, Health
• Custom Tabs & Modules Content
for new students with
New_Student_m1 role
• UX Study
Future Plans• Staff roles automation• Reading list integration• Employability, TLA & Research Tabs
& Modules
Evaluation & Refinement
• Feedback
• Faculty ownership & management
of staff secondary roles
• Secondary Roles via SIS Framework
VLE UseUser Numbers & Blackboard Logins
Edge Hill Customisation – A Snapshot of Term 1 2014-15
Educa-tion
Health FAS0
5001,0001,5002,0002,5003,0003,5004,0004,5005,000
00:02:35
00:03:33
00:03:11
15,036 Students12,267.38 FTE
15,575 active VLE users each month
4,860 logins each day
1,359 academic staff
00:07:31 time spent on site per visit
Custom Tab UsePage Views & Av. Time Spent
Edge Hill Customisation – Feedback
“Being able to easily access resources from the same place.”
“I love the tabs”
“It is a good 'go to' resource. It is my starting point for most things.”
“The new tabs on the homepage - quick access to library resources. Plus faculty news.”
“The specific subject tabs allow me to access certain content easily without having to search for it all over the website.”
Secondary Roles (Institutional roles)
• The underlying foundations of targeting content [via tabs/modules]• How did we scope the roles?• Incorporating / feed files• Frequency of allocation
Data Sources
• Student Data Feed• How – Flat File• Where – Student Information Database (SID)
• Staff Data Feed• How – Flat File• Where – LDAP Active Directory
• Who was involved:• Business Systems (IT Services) |Academic Registry (AR) | Human Resources (HR)
What was achieved?
• Pilot with April FOHSC Nursing & ODP students• Automated feed file for Student (Faculty/Dept.) Secondary Roles• Targeted information for events & groups of users• Future plans to:
• Automate staff secondary roles• Target student roles based on module department & faculty association
ACTIVITY – Targeting Users
• Using Staff & Students as examples, create spider diagrams listing information those users would find useful. E.g. Faculty Resources, Departmental information, Research, NSS, New starter information etc.• Group together common themes and suggest a role name. E.g.
Faculty, Department, Academic Year, Campus etc.
ACTIVITY – Example
STUDENTS
STAFFFaculty
Resources
Department
Information
Year 1
Year 2 Year 3
Undergraduate Resources
Postgraduate Resources
Research
Support
Faculty Resources
Department
Information
NSS
Revision Resources
Help / Guides
DEPARTMENT SECONDARY ROLE
FACULTY SECONDARY ROLE
Subject Resources
Edge Hill University – Secondary Roles
Department Roles x51DEPT_
Faculty Roles x3FACULTY_
StudentsSTUDENT
StaffSTAFF
Primary Institutional Roles Secondary Institutional Roles
New StudentsNEW_STARTER_M1
New Institutional Role
Academic YearYR_
Wish List
Campus IDORM_
Two roles don’t make a right
Operating Department PracticeHODP
Faculty of Health & Social CareFOHSC
Pre Registration NursingHPRN
StudentsSTUDENT
StaffSTAFF
Primary Institutional Roles Secondary Institutional Roles
• Limitations of a secondary role – can’t ‘add’ together
Front end - User Experience
• What do the students want?• How was it managed?• Who was involved?
Challenges
Everyone wants a piece of the pie…• “I want a tab!”• “I want it to be called…”• “I want to change it to…”• “I want it to be placed here…”• “I want my panel (module) there…”
ACTIVITY – What the users see
• Think of a name for your tab• What content would you have within that tab? • How many modules (panels)?• Where would they be placed?• What would they look like? (content/design)
Design
• Consistent theme• .css on the Blackboard page (applied via ‘Themes and
Branding’)
• Module template in PPT• Training
Thanks and Questions?
Images from http://pixabay.com/
John LangfordLearning Technology Development Systems [email protected]
Carol ChattenLearning Technology Development [email protected]
Megan JussLearning Technology Development [email protected]
