I (Gary Roberts) recently wrote an article in Computers In Libraries (See reference
below) magazine about combining the testing and registration features
of TILT with the interactive IL content of TILT (Texas Information
Literacy Tutorial). In the article, I discussed the process of
importing TILT into the Blackboard course management system. One of the
greatest challenges of our TILT/Blackboard integration was the fact
that Blackboard 5.5 does not provide for durable hyperlinks, meaning
that it is impossible to directly-link end-users from the TILT content
to the Blackboard assessment. In the article, I discuss how I fashioned
a work-around to the problem of getting an end-user from the tutorial
to the actual Blackboard assessment. Unfortunately, this solution is
somewhat convoluted and requires some Web trickery. Paul Pival at the
University Of Calgary pointed out that durable links do, in fact, work
in BB 6.0. As a result, librarians who are working on importing TILT
into Blackboard 6.0 can direct-link end-users to the assessment
(without convoluted Web trickery). A big thank you goes to Paul for
spotting this new Blackboard feature.
Roberts, Gary. The Yin and Yang of Integrating TILT with Blackboard. Computers in Libraries, Sept. 2003, v.23, no. 8, page 10. (link goes to Academic Search Premier) (originally posted October 19, 2003)