Photo Rosters

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Mike Weaver

Bucknell

Primary motivation for Photo Rosters:

Helping faculty to learn

names and faces of their students!

( Online Directory )

vs.

“Private” pictures

“Public” pictures

And now …

…to the Photo Rosters in Blackboard …

Photo Rosters have been

wildly popular with faculty!

They use it as a mechanism to

• I’ve heard countless anecdotes about how they used to cut up the printed directory to create their own photo roster.

• Faculty who have never used Blackboard are now getting into Blackboard to access the photo rosters!

Features, Conditions & Caveats

• Photo Rosters are available for all courses and organizations in Blackboard.

• All Bucknell courses are automatically created in Blackboard, and students are automatically enrolled.

Features, Conditions & Caveats, cont.

• The photo roster is only available to the instructor/manager of the Blackboard course/organization.

• If the person generating the roster is faculty or staff, it will include “private” pictures. Otherwise, it will only include public pictures.

• For example, a student who is president of a fraternity can generate a photo roster of his fraternity that will include all public pictures but no private pictures.

Features, Conditions & Caveats, cont.

• Photo Rosters are only available in the campus intranet.

Technical Challenges (for me)

• My first Building Block in Blackboard.

• Pictures (JPEGs) need to be displayed as part of the photo roster, but can’t be independently accessible to the web server.

The End

The EndMike Weaver

Bucknell University

mweaver@bucknell.edu