Monday, October 22, 2007

bFree

Converting your course to a standalone web site

Have you ever wanted to convert your Blackboard course into a stand alone website? The University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill has created a free software tool that will do just that.

You simply download and install the software onto your computer. Then archive or export your course from Blackboard and download it to your computer. Run your archive/export through bFree and it'll give you a standalone website of your course.

It will extract course content, text, announcements, forums and group/course uploaded documents that are directly in your course. (It does not currently pull files linked from the content collection.)

For more information or to download the software, visit their website at http://its.unc.edu/tl/tli/bFree/index.php.