Welcome!
This website documents a variety of open source software developed by Stephen P Vickers:for use with learning systems from Blackboard Inc:
Copies of all the applications are releasd under a Creative Commons GNU General Public Licence and can be downloaded from the projects website operated by OSCELOT (the Open Source Community for Educational Learning Objects and Tools). Documentation is available on ths site.
Stephen has been developing educational applications for over 25 years. He received a Blackboard Innovators Award in 2008 and a Blackboard Catalyst Award for Innovative Development in 2009. Most recently, he has been working on implementing the IMS Basic LTI specification for Blackboard Learning Systems and developing SpACE (Spatial Activities in Course Environments) as an independent tool supporting the early implementations of both Basic and Full LTI.
If you require any advice or assistance with extending your Blackboard/WebCT platform, please feel free to get in touch at stephen@spvsoftwareproducts.com.
A Building Block has been released to allow Learn 9 installations to connect to external tools which support Basic LTI; a subset of the IMS Learning Tools Interoperability v2.0 specification.
A PowerLink has been released to allow WebCT installations to connect to external tools which support Basic LTI; a subset of the IMS Learning Tools Interoperability v2.0 specification.
A new version of this PowerLink has been released to support cross-listed sections and extract pages of member records which may optionally match a specified criterion.
A new version of this PowerLink has been released to support MAC2 calculations. This version also fixes a bug when using the PowerLink with assisted configuration.
A new version of this PowerLink has been released to support the variable substitutions options provided by WebCTDAO 2.3 when configuring the formats of space keys, space names and user names. It also supports a more secure method for logging into Confluence.
This package provides a simple interface to enable PowerLinks persist data for instances of proxy tools, thereby allowing them to retain user data between accesses to a tool.
Are you a PowerLink developer? Do you need to insepct system and WebCT objects, or test Velocity templates? Then this you may find this PowerLink a useful addition to your development server.
A demonstration of work-in-progress on this PowerLink was given at BbWorld'08 last month. It is designed to allow students to combine spatial data with related resources. The draft documentation has been added to this site, together with an example of how the editor might look and a sample viewer illustrating an alternative visual presentation. It is expeected that a beta version of this PowerLink will be available for download from OSCELOT next month.
Release 2 of this PowerLink is now available. It adds functionality which allows data to be passed back from QuestionMark Perception to WebCT on completion of an assessment.
Do you have lots of small tools which do not justify being released as a separate proxy tool? Then the proxyToolbox is for you! It allows multiple tools to be made available to users through a single proxy tool.
A Windows application to automate the reloading of deployable components on a WebCT 8 development server is now available to improve the efficiency of PowerLinks developers.
