Blackboard
Blackboard offers an enterprise suite of education technology focused on helping teaching and learning effectiveness, while helping administrators communicate, connect and build community. With over 3,000 higher education clients globally, Blackboard brings to clients deep experience and proven solutions that solve major business problems on- and off-campus.
Blackboard Learn is an open and extensible, standards-based, learning and course management platform with outcomes/assessment, community and collaboration tools fully integrated. Used by millions of faculty and students daily, Blackboard Learn is a mission-critical application to our higher education clients every day. Being an open platform, Blackboard Learn offers clients an open API – or building blocks – with which our clients integrate to 3rd party systems, and can evolve the platform capabilities as needed on campus. In addition, Blackboard Learn supports a robust developer ecosystem of thousands, with ready-made plug-ins to augment the experience and further solve the core learning management needs of our clients.
Fully integrated into Blackboard Learn is Blackboard Connect – a multi-modal, mass communication platform that allows higher education clients to communicate effectively, and immediately, with students, faculty, administrators and the supporting community of education. Blackboard Connect is used by 1 in 6 students in higher education across North America today. With the ability to send email, SMS, recorded voice, speech-to-text and social media messages – all without the involvement of an IT administrator – Blackboard Connect enables faculty to effectively reach underperforming students, alumni relations to effectively engage alumns, enrollment to drive retention, athletics to mobilize the fan base and security officers to keep the campus safe.
Blackboard Mobile offers higher education clients the ability to bring campus services right to the hip pocket of its community, and also allow students always-on, anywhere access to grades, course material, assignments and collaboration tools. With robust support for BlackBerry OS, Apple iPhone OS and WAP browser capability, Blackboard Mobile allows campuses to put services – like course catalogs, library resources, campus tours and campus directories - right at the figertips of their campus community. And, with Blackboard’s acclaimed Mobile Learn, with full integration into the Blackboard Learn learning and course management platform, campuses can now enable students to directly access their courses from anywhere they have a cellular or WiFi signal.
