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Request blackboard team to plan for journal entry download facilities. As now their is no such option to download it in bulk, Instructor have to do it manually.
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Gaurav Gulati
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Thank you for posting this Gaurav Gulati - this would be so useful, we regularly have a need to send away journal posts to external verifiers and there's currently no way to do this, without creating a screen shot or print out of every single post, which isn't scalable. Having the ability to create an export would be incredibly useful.
Thanks for your valuable comment.
I request Brad Evans SIR to consider this request, and plan for this also in Bb future releases.
Thank you.
My faculty also want this capability: it could really speed up the grading process too, allowing a quick overview to check for completion.
A bit late to the party on this one, but we'd very much like to see an export facility on blogs, journals and wikis.
There are lots of use cases for this, but it is particularly important where one of these tools is being used for personal and professional development - there is a strong requirement for such personal reflections to be portable. So a print to PDF, or better still an export as html option would meet a need which currently cannot be met.
Our main use case is for our teacher training courses where the journal is used for teaching reflections. The lecturers always ask for exports so that the trainees can take away their reflections, and the comments from their mentors, to keep in their teaching portfolios, and so that they can refer back to them after completing the course.
Agreed - being able to export work from Blackboard is a must, not just for reflection and self-development but, as it's possible to grade items such as blog entries and journals, also for external verification.
Yes - I fully agree. Being able to download/export (to PDF or HTML) student generated content from journals, blogs and wikis as well as discussion boards is a real must. We used to have Campus Pack (quite a few years ago) and that had a very good export option available for its journals, blogs and wikis. I think it's a real problem that students work gets 'trapped' or 'locked' inside Bb's collaborative tools. I guess that the best way to deal with it is to use something like an LTI integrated PebblePad inside Bb, but then Bb becomes increasingly redundant ... but perhaps the big VLE/LMS is becoming increasingly redundant anyway. Maybe it's time for the big VLE/LMS to give way to the PLE.
I completely agree with all your points above - it would make such a difference in all these contexts to have this functionality, without it I find it difficult to recommend some of these tools as they are so limited/limiting.
I'd also like to see the option of setting these tools up to run for an individual over the course of their time in HE - this would enable students to build on work semester after semester and year after year (particularly important for reflective learning or when constructing new knowledge). Not being able to copy them across from one course into another when working with the same cohort is very unhelpful.
I agree, our External Verifiers are finding it difficult and time-consuming to access the information they need via the Grade Centre. It is not sustainable to try to provide all the information they need. It is absolutely necessary to be able to download journals, discussion forums and wikis with the relevant comments, feedback text, rubrics and grades.
totally agree.
We need to have those features downloadable.
Funny (not funny, but funny) that there has been this sudden flurry of comments to this idea.
I'm putting a +1 on this as well.
We had an instructor call this morning requesting this very feature.
Agree... blogs, wikis, and journals should be downloadable
It would be really good to get an official response from someone at Blackboard about this - is this something that could be added to the roadmap? There's clearly very good support for the idea amongst clients. I appreciate that the majority of investment will be going into Ultra at the moment, but we really need to continue some development with Learn 9.1 to avoid it becoming stale and dated; relatively small improvements to existing tools like this can make a very big impact.
I'll just add a +1 for this feature too. I agree with Chris that it would be good to have some indication if this idea is being considered at Blackboard. The lack of download options is really problematic for the blogs, journals, wikis etc especially when other non-Blackboard tools often have the options as standard.
I know I am late on this post, but I would really appreciate this feature, the ability to download Journals will be of great help.
I see that this idea has been around for almost two years now; it clearly has a lot of support amongst clients who use the journal. Could some from Blackboard give us a response, or indicate if this can be added to the roadmap please? Dominic Gore Wade Weichel
I had a really useful call with Oleg Figlin, VP Europe, Dominic Gore and Brent Mundy last week about this, and other enhancements to Learn Original; Dom explained that developing a Journal export is part of a wider project to look at exporting data from a range of tools in Learn, including the journal. He said that when they look at this, they'd like to create an export which follows a standard of some type so that it could later be imported again into Learn or another system. He cited the Portfolio download facility which downloads as a zip file - effectively a mini website - and pointed out that this isn't editable and can't be imported again. I said that a simple export like this would meet our current needs, but equally I do understand the desire to include maximum benefits if putting resources into an export tool.
He also said that this is linked to making Learn available off-line, although I said that our use case would be for a copy of the journal to be available for users without a Learn account, e.g. departing students or external verifiers.
They also mentioned Blackboard Data, which will start to be available for SaaS clients from the end of the year; although it's too early to explore exact details at the moment, there may be some capabilities within here that could provide some type of Journal export.
Dom and Brent have also kindly agreed to talk about this to explore whether there are any other opportunities or potential quick fixes.
So, although they're not able to quickly provide us with a solution right now, the need to export Journals, and potential ways to achieve this in the future were discussed.
With thanks to Oleg for making this call happen, and Dom and Brent's input on this.
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Thanks for posting this Gaurav! I would love to see this feature, and also for it be extended to download blog entries en masse by student or by blog, and also for wikis - (course or group wikis) for the instructor to be able to download an HTML based version that can be loaded outside of Blackboard - e.g. for passing onto external examiners.