Technology Used

What technologies and/or e-tools were available to you or did you seek to develop?

PebblePad software was used. There was also a requirement for updated Flash Player to be installed on all PCs in order to run the PebblePad software.

Initially, there was not an automated way of creating accounts for users, this had to be done manually by members of the Flourish Team. Later on Flourish purchased a single sign-on solution from VLE Genius with the aim of enabling users to move from their PebblePad account into the Blackboard VLE, and vice versa without being required to login.

The Project Manager made the decision not to install this building block on the live Blackboard server because concerns had been raised about the ease with which any member of staff with admin rights on the Blackboard system could potentially mimic another user's login details and subsequently access their PebblePad account.