Blackboard for K-12

Let’s Build a Better Educational Experience

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Many District Initiatives

How can technology play a role?

What is the best approach?

Professional Development

Blended Learning

Virtual School Initiatives

Parent & Community

Outreach

Credit Recovery

Student Data Management

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Web Based Teaching & Learning

Campus Commerce &

Security

Multi-Modal Alerts &

Notifications

Mobile Access &

Connectivity

Reall Time Classrooms & Collaboration

Education Analytics & Reporting

Strategic Consulting Student Services & Support Managed Hosting

Our Platform

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Blackboard Learn

• Allows institutions to put their courses online to supplement traditional classes as well as offer fully online programs

• Add-on modules include: • Course Delivery• Content Module• Community Module

• Over 3,300 clients and 15 million users

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Blackboard Collaborate

• Enables teachers to hold real time courses online including chat, whiteboard, audio and video

• Add-on modules include: • Instant Messaging for

Education• Voice Module

• Over 950 clients and 6 million users.

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Blackboard Mobile

• Delivers campus services and content to mobile devices including Apple iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, BlackBerry, and Android

• Products include: • Bb Mobile Central• Bb Mobile Learn

• Over 220 clients and hundreds of thousands of users

Bb’s Managed Hosting Service:• Offering Services since 1999• Servicing around 25% of Customers from All Market Sectors

– Almost 200 clients from our K12 community • Bb Hosting Team Members located in 4 Continents• 5 Tier-4 Datacenters - 12,000+ SqFt of Global Datacenter Space• 99.7% or Better Uptime Availability Guarantee (SLA)• 99.98% - Actual network uptime across all clients in the last 24+ months

Our Community

BLACKBOARD SERVES MORE THAN

4,500 K-12 INSTITUTIONS AND CLOSE TO 75% OF ALL HE INSTITUTIONS IN NORTH

AMERICA

Content Partnerships That You Desire

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Integrated content that teachers can easily incorporate directly into their course environment.

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What is the Blackboard Suite of products comprised of?

• Course Delivery• Community Engagement• Content Management• Mobile Learn

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What is Course Delivery?• Course Delivery is the ability to deliver fully online and/or blended/hybrid

learning courses• This provides teachers with the ability to post content online and create teacher

web pages• Functionality includes but is not limited to:

– Ability to post any type of content, such as documents, videos, images, etc– Assessments/Assignments– Plagarism Detection with Safe Assign– Collaborative Tools, such as Discussion Boards, Wikis, Blogs, Journals, etc– A fully robust Gradebook– A multitude of Monitoring Tools to quickly identify Student trends such as Students that

are performing poorly– Ability to communicate with Students and Parents via Email or an Internal Blackboard

Messaging Tool– Standards Alignment Tools to align ALL course content to State and Common Core

Standards– Lesson Planning Tools to not only build but to also Plan from within the Blackboard

platform

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What is Community Engagement?• Community Engagement provides clients with the ability to

create Blackboard as their teaching and learning portal.• A portal that is role based and dictates access to users based on

role in the system (ie. ONLY Teachers would have access to a Professional Development section)

• Functionality includes but is not limited to:– Multiple branding to cater to multiple needs (ie. Different brands for

the High School and Middle School)– Domain Management to create multiple entry pages and define

multiple levels of administrative rights– Ability to create Blackboard as your district’s community web presence– Customized Module and Tab creation to truly customize the

Blackboard experience (think of your Blackboard Homepage as an iGoogle page with information displayed dictated by the User)

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What is Content Management?• Content Management is a “true” content management solution

that provides the district with a centralized content repository to store institutional documents

• Functionality includes but is not limited to:– Central management of institutional content that tracks usage,

modifications and access to all Users across the district– Role based content management to dictate Read, Write, Manage and

Remove privileges to any object stored in the CMS– The ability to create a Learning Object Repository for Teachers to

search, share and reference objects tied to State and Common Core Standards

– Digital Lockers for every User with size dictated by the District– A fully integrated ePortfolio Tool– A collaborative area for Teachers to create/edit/publish Lesson Plans

and activities that can then be shared throughout the district

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What is Mobile Learn?• Mobile Learn provides every User in the district with the

ability to access Blackboard from a native app built for any iOS (iPhone, iPad and iTouch), Android or Blackberry device

• Functionality includes but is not limited to:– 24x7x365 access to your Blackboard courses from a Smartphone– The ability to not only read but also engage in content within your

Blackboard Courses (ie. The ability to take a picture from your Smartphone and upload it to your Classroom Discussion Board)

– A great way to combat issues affiliated with the “Digital Divide” due to the ubiquity of Smartphones today

– Connectivity with your Students through the devices they know and love