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October 09, 2007, 10:27 AM ET
Improved Blackboard Course Extractor Debuts
Course instructors often need to extract announcements, attachments, and discussion-board entries from Blackboard course archives. The new revision of bFree, a Blackboard application designed at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, could make this job easier.
According to the Academic Commons blog, bFree “now extracts Announcements, Discussion Board entries, archives, and attachments, as well as Digital Drop Box and group File Exchange uploads. It continues to extract wiki entries and attachments, staff information and attachments, and content area pages, including folders, descriptions, links, and attached files of all kinds.” It won’t, however, pull out tests, surveys, and assignments.
bFree creates an independent Web site that mimics the original Blackboard course structure. The site can be placed on a Web server for easy access. The bFree software is free and available under a Creative Commons license. —Josh Fischman,
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