Blackboard – special project to show what can be done with Blackboard – all done with Building Blocks – so could be done by any existing Bb users
All done – Bb Learn 9.1 – 2 months of coding with 3 p/t devs – now over 10,000 users system
Result: http://www.coursesites.com – free site, anyone can setup a course
Publish to open web as well
Login via OpenID – i.e. use ‘login with twitter/google/yahoo/etc.’)
Ability to pull in blog content via RSS
Ability to blog directly into Bb (using Pebble – http://pebble.sourceforge.net/)
Custom themes
Pull in Social media – embed OpenGraph data into ‘splash page’ – capture social sharing information
Not everything can be ‘shared’ yet due to privacy concerns
Custom workflow for creating a course