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Enterprise Scalability ~ The Blackboard system has a
proven ability to scale to hundreds of thousands of active users using
out-of-the-box load balancing and multiple database fail-over support. |
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Multi-Language Support ~ Enables institutions to run
multiple languages on the same system. Standards Compliance and
interoperability with industry standards is a fundamental capability of
Blackboard's software products. |
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Blackboard Building Blocks ~ Clients and independent
software vendors use Blackboard Building Blocks technology to create new
Blackboard platform functionality or to integrate external systems |
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System Integration ~ Blackboard's data and system
integration capabilities allow institutions to integrate campus back-office
systems with the Blackboard Academic Suite. |
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Course Management ~ Course Management capabilities focus
on the effective creation, migration, and archiving of courses. |
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Content Authoring ~ The Visual Text Box Editor provides a
rich text editing interface to create effective learning content. Instructors
can also import e-Learning content created in external authoring tools. |
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Adaptive Content Release ~ Provides the ability for an
instructor to create custom learning paths through course content and
activities. |
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Syllabus Builder ~ Enables instructors to easily create,
design, and develop their own course syllabus and lesson plans. |
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Learning Units ~ Allows instructors to create sequenced
lessons and control how students progress through this content. |
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Online Textbook ~ Content (Course Cartridges) Pre-packaged
content and course materials in the Blackboard format, created by all major
education publishers to supplement their course textbooks. |
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Teaching and Learning Tools ~ A wide range of tools that
support of specific teaching or learning activities. These tools include the
Glossary, the Electric Blackboard and Staff Information. |
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Personal Information Management ~The Calendar allows a
user to manage and view course-specific events as well as personal and
institutional events. The Tasks tool allows instructors to assign tasks with
Priority and Due Dates and track students' progress. Blackboard Messages
facilitates email-like communication within a course. |
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Discussion Board ~ The Discussion Board enables threaded,
asynchronous discussions. Instructors can create multiple forums about
different topics and embed these into appropriate course content areas. |
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Virtual Classroom / Collaboration Tool ~ Enables live,
synchronous interaction by supporting a text-based Chat environment and a full
Virtual Classroom. |
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Group Projects ~ Instructors can use the Groups tool to
support peer collaboration among multiple groups of students. |
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Assessments and Surveys ~ Instructors can deliver online,
automatically-scored assessments and surveys. |
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Assignments ~ Allows instructors to create assignment
items through which students can submit their responses. |
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Gradebook ~ Instructors can store student performance
results in the course Gradebook, which supports custom grading scales, grade
weighting, item analysis and multiple gradebook views. |
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.Reporting and Performance Dashboard ~ The Performance
Dashboard provides a view of student progress and indicates whether students
have reviewed specific content items. It also enables usage data to be viewed
for an entire course. |
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