PRS Blackboard Registration Installation Instructions

The installation described below should be performed by the Blackboard Admin or someone familiar with the Blackboard installation at your site.

1. Open Blackboard and login as the Blackboard System Admin.

2. Click on the System Admin tab.

3. Select the Manage System Extensions option and click on Install Extension.

4. Click on the Browse button next to the Select Installation Package field and navigate to the BbPRS.zip file. By default, the file is located in Program Files/InterWrite PRS.

5. Select the file and click on the Open button.

6. Click on the Submit button.

Wait for the message System extension successfully installed. You will need to enable the system extension.

7. Click on the OK button.

When the list of Installed System Extensions is displayed, PRS Registration should now be on it.

8. Click on the drop-down menu that is labelled Inactive and choose Available.

This will bring you to a screen informing you that the PRS Registration module is asking for certain security settings and is it OK to install.

9. Click on the OK button.

The message The extension has successfully been made available to users will appear.

10. Click on the OK button.

The PRS Plug-In is successfully installed.

Making the PRS Tab

Now that the PRS Blackboard Registration Application has been successfully installed in Blackboard, you can make a PRS Tab. Having a PRS Tab is not necessary to the successful implementation of the PRS Blackboard Registration Application. It is included here to make the whole business of students registering their PRS Transmitters as simple and straightforward as possible. If you are trying to limit the number of Tabs in your Blackboard installation and already have one, perhaps a Student Tab, that would work, ignore these instructions. Go ahead and link the PRS Blackboard Registration Application to the existing Tab.

1. Click on the System Admin tab.

2. Under the Portal System header, select the Manage Tabs option.

3. Click on the + Module Tab link.

4. In the Title field, enter PRS. In the System Availability field, select Yes. In the Available to Specific Portal Roles, select Everyone.

5. Click on the Submit button.

The message The tab has been successfully updated will appear. You can now renumber, or reorder, the tab, if you choose.

6. Click on the OK button.

7. Click on the Modify button on the PRS line.

8. Click on the Default Content link and scroll down until you see My Courses. Click on both the Include checkbox and the Require checkbox.

The checkbox selections ensure that the title My Courses will display in the PRS tab, and that it cannot be removed by Blackboard users.

9. Click on the Submit button.

The message The page has successfully been customized will appear.

10. Click on the OK button until you are back at the Administrative Links page.

This completes the PRS Blackboard Registration Application installation.