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Partner Schools Access e-Textbooks Directly in LMS NASHVILLE, Tenn. and WASHINGTON, May 20, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Blackboard Inc. and Vital Source Technologies, Inc., an Ingram Content Group company, have launched pilot programs with a number of colleges and universities to test-drive an integrated offering that makes the VitalSource Bookshelf(®) platform and its hundreds of thousands of e-Textbooks available directly within Blackboard Learn((TM)), the company's flagship learning...
Retention Center Helps Instructors Identify & Engage At-Risk Students WASHINGTON, April 24, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Blackboard Inc. has unveiled a new release of its flagship learning management system (LMS) that includes a tool to help instructors identify and engage at-risk students based on course activity patterns that correlate with student success. The feature makes it easier for instructors with limited time to find effective ways to improve student retention and outcomes. The...
Wide Range of Products Named Among Best in Class by Instructors, Administrators and IT Leaders WASHINGTON, March 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Blackboard Inc. was honored as a finalist in ten different categories in the 2013 SIIA CODiE Awards, the company announced today. The CODiEs are the premier award for the software and information industries, and have been recognizing product excellence for 27 years. Blackboard has previously won a number of CODiE awards, including Best...
Strategic Partnership Offers Colleges, Universities and K-12 Institutions Flexible, Scalable Browser-Based Access Control Systems FRAMINGHAM, Mass., March 4, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- S2 Security today announced a strategic technology partnership that will make S2's browser-based security management systems (SMS) available to Blackboard Transact((TM))'s education customers, including college, university and K-12 institutions. Under the agreement, Blackboard will be incorporating the S2...
Partnership with S2 Security Provides Robust Physical Security and Situational Awareness Capabilities WASHINGTON, March 4, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Blackboard Transact((TM)), a leader in integrated campus commerce and security solutions, has expanded its campus security offerings through a strategic partnership with S2 Security, the company announced today. The alliance allows Blackboard Transact to offer schools and universities even more physical security capabilities to create a...
New Integrations Make it Easier to Use Web Conferencing Platform with Any LMS WASHINGTON, Feb. 27, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Blackboard Collaborate((TM)), the leading online collaboration platform built for education, now supports IMS LTI (Learning Tools Interoperability) specifications, making the platform available to institutions using any learning management system (LMS) compliant with LTI industry standards, the company announced today. This latest software update enables...
RALEIGH, N.C. and FAIRFAX, Va., Feb. 27, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- TransLoc Inc., provider of real-time transit information to the world's leading educational institutions, municipalities, airports and corporations, today announced that students, faculty, and staff can access instant, real-time information about their campus transit systems easily via the TransLoc integration with Blackboard Mobile(TM) Central. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130227/CL67556LOGO-a )(Logo:...
Ambitious Effort Spans All Undergraduate, Graduate Programs WASHINGTON, Feb. 25, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Ottawa University has partnered with Blackboard Inc. to support a major expansion of its blended and online degree programs, the company announced today. Under the multi-year deal, Kansas-based Ottawa, which currently operates six different campus locations nationwide, will grow and scale existing and future residential, hybrid and online undergraduate and graduate degree programs....
WASHINGTON, Feb. 21, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Blackboard Inc. today announced an agreement with the Connecticut Board of Regents for Higher Education, which governs the Connecticut State Colleges & Universities system (ConnSCU), for a new, statewide platform for online and mobile learning to support ConnSCU's 17 institutions and 96,000 students. With the deal, each of the campuses will gain access to Blackboard Learn((TM)) and Blackboard Mobile Learn((TM)) for the next three...
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- BlackboardPay(TM), a student-centric prepaid card program, has received a 2013 Paybefore Award in the Best Consumer Value category, the company announced today. The award is the most prestigious recognition of excellence in the worldwide prepaid and emerging payments industry. BlackboardPay previously won a Paybefore Award in 2011 in the Best Government Funded Prepaid Program category. This year's winners were selected from a record number...
