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Cengage Learning Mindlinks: Delivers new heights of user experience through Blackboard by providing integrated digital content and tools.

Grade Center: Record data, calculate grades, and monitor student progress.

Blogs: Personal online journals intended for general public access, with a commenting system to encourage interaction.

Calendar: Provide students with dates for course related events, and they will appear to all members of the course.

Respondus Lockdown Browser: A custom web browser that prevents users from leaving the Blackboard environment during an assessment.

Course Messages: Private and secure text-based communication that occurs within a course among course members, and is stored on the Blackboard server.

Announcements: Post important messages and timely information critical to course success.

Adobe Connect: A web conferencing solution for online meetings, eLearning, and webinars.

Study Mate Class: Helps students “master the basics” of course material through web-based learning activities, self-assessments, and games.

Discussion Board: Replicate the robust discussions that take place in the traditional classroom.

Email: Send email directly to other people in your course from within Blackboard Learn without launching an external email program.

SlideShare Presentation: Allows youto incorporate slide’s from the world’s largest community forsharing presentations.

Glossary: Similar to glossaries found in textbooks, each customizable entry consists of a term and an accompanying definition.

Groups: Students can collaborate on course work within their own private workspace.

Video Everywhere: Users can record video, upload directly to YouTube, and embed it anywhere.

YouTube Video: Allows content creators to embed YouTube videos directly in a course.

Journals: Communicate privately with students and promote sharing of sensitive or private information which can be integral to learning success in some subject areas. Rubrics: List evaluation criteria for an

assignment and convey expectations for the quality of completed work.

Profiles: Define your personal identity and share within your academic network.

Surveys: Measure student knowledge, gauge progress, and gather information.

Tasks: Organize projects or activities by defining task priority and tracking task status.

Wikis: Students can contribute and modify pages of course-related material, providing a means of sharing and collaboration.

Portfolios: Create and manage portfolios and learning artifacts.

NBC Learn: Offers an easy way to embed NBC News content into your Blackboard Learn course.

Learning Modules: A type of course organization structure that allows you to organize materials around a Table of Contents (compare to Content Folders and Lesson Plans).

Lesson Plans: A type of course organization structure that prepares students for intended outcomes and upcoming content (compare to Content Folders and Learning Modules).

Objective Builder: Write observable, measurable, and clearly defined learning objectives.

Creater Pro: An online syllabus tool to foster students’ understanding of course expectations and policies.

Inline Gradinig: View, comment, and grade student submitted assignment files without leaving the Grade Assignment page.

Adaptive Release: Add various criteria to items throughout Blackboard to release content to users based on a defined set of rules. Student View: View the course

from a student’s perspective.

Achievements: Create opportunities for students to earn recognition for their work.

Course Reports: View information about course usage and activity.

Performance Dashboard: Provides a view into all types of user activity in your course or organization.

Turnitin: Improves the student writing cycle by preventing plagiarism and providing rich feedback to students.

Analytics: Use big data to help drive your decisions.

Proctor U: A live online proctoring service that allows exam takers to complete their assessment at home.

iPeer: Allows instructors to develop and deliver rubric- based peer evaluations.

Turnitin Audio Feedback: Quickly record a detailed message of up to three minutes and attach it to a Turnitin assignment.

Retention Center: See which students in your course are at risk.

Content Folders: A type of course organization structure, where you can add content and additional subfolders if needed. (compare to Learning Modules and Lesson Plans).

CourseSmart: Offers all users access to the course content they need anytime, including reading textbooks offline and on multiple devices.

Mimio: Digitally record notes and markings on a whiteboard to be saved or deployed in a Blackboard course.

Pearson’s MyLab: Delivers engaging, dynamic learning opportunities using direct links to their content, proven to help students understand difficult concepts.

WIley Plus: Offers digital learning resources integrated into Blackboard Learn to seamlessly engage students and support the learning process.

Open Education Resources (OER): Use, create, and share digital educational materials on a global level.

McGraw-Hill: Improves student performance by allowing the instructor to embed content into the Blackboard Learn course content.

Adobe Captivate: Produce interactive instructional content in Flash and mobile-friendly formats.

Audio: Integrate audio directly into Blackboard for lectures and other purposes.

Learning Glass: Perform work traditionally done on a whiteboard with blackboard while facing a camera.

Video Scribe: Create whiteboard animations.

Green Screen: Gives content presenters a wide variety of options when recording videos for their courses.

MediaSite: Seamlessly integrate video recordings and lecture slides.

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