This Chrome browser plugin aims at removing some unnecessary content from Blackboard. It is currently optimised for the Blackboard of the TU Delft, but it can potentially be extended to support many more different Blackboard systems, and versions.
- Moves the TU Delft (or other) logo next to the menu: reduces header by 42 pixels.
- Removes customisation header bar, as this is now drag and drop by default anyway, and who does really apply colours to his Blackboard? No one right?
- Moves ugly (!) vtbegenerated messages (the ones that look like they are from the 1992 internetz) to the right of the menu, so they are still visible but without the ugly style and less obtrusive.
- Cache all module content in LocalStorage, and delay real loading 5 sec.
Feedback and extensions are welcome!
Until we publish the plugin to the Chrome Web Store the installation process is as follows:
- Download the zip file containing the sources
- Extract the zip somewhere
- Go to the Chrome menu (three bars, right top) > More tools > Extensions (chrome://extensions/)
- Check the 'developer mode' checkbox
- Click the Load unpacked extension... button
- Select the folder (that is the extracted zip)
- Surf to Blackboard and enjoy!
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Please note that not all Blackboard features are tested with this plugin. It might break some fancy little hidden feature somewhere in the beast called Blackboard.
I'm not affiliated with Blackboard, nor do I intend to infringe any copyright of Blackboard or the companies that own it. Using this plugin we solely display a Blackboard experience that we would like to be the official Blackboard experience. We do encourage Blackboard engineers to use our (visual) suggestions and incorporate them in their product. We wont sue you for improving Blackboard using these suggestions.