Registration is now open for NERCOMP's upcoming workshop "Blackboard WebCT User Group."

Come learn about how your peers in the Northeast area are using Blackboard and WebCT for innovation in teaching, learning and community building and to learn more about the Blackboard vision and strategic direction as well as the latest products and services.

We've received this news from Chapel Hill --

The popular bFree application has been revised to extract far more material from a Blackboard course archive, and to make your exploration and use of that material easier.

The program 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. Tests, Gradebook, Surveys, Assignments, and Pools are among the content items not yet supported...