New Release of Blackboard Academic Suite(TM) Boosts Teacher Productivity and Promotes 21st Century Skills in the Classroom
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Blackboard Inc. (NASDAQ: BBBB) has announced the general
availability of Release 8.0 of the Blackboard Academic Suite�, a
standards-based product suite that engages learners and drives
student achievement. The new release includes a number of important
enhancements that empower global Higher Education and K-12
institutions to cultivate 21st Century Learning skills. Drawing
upon one of the industry�s largest communities of practice,
Blackboard has collaborated with its innovative user community to
enhance the Blackboard Academic Suite, making it a more powerful
instructional tool for teachers and learners at all levels. One of
the premier enhancements is the Blackboard Grade Center�, a
completely redesigned smart grading tool with an easy-to-use
interface that simplifies the grading process while providing
powerful analytic capabilities for teachers. Additionally, teachers
can now email students and parents directly from the Blackboard
Grade Center and create and share printable progress reports for
better school-to-home communication. �We are constantly seeking
feedback on how our products can enhance K-12 teaching and
learning,� said Jessie-Woolley Wilson, President of Blackboard
K-12. �By partnering with our valued user community to develop
Release 8.0, Blackboard was able to design a solution that meets
the needs of every classroom. The Blackboard Academic Suite
empowers teachers to foster the 21st century skills that today�s
students need to succeed.� �I am thrilled to introduce the new
Blackboard Grade Center to the teachers. Not only does it save
teachers time, it also serves as an instructional tool enabling
teachers to easily monitor student progress and communicate
directly with parents,� said�Mike Smith, Functional Analyst,
Baltimore City Public Schools. Using the new Self and Peer
Assessment tool, students can better cultivate important 21st
century skills such as critical thinking. Created by a Blackboard
user, the tool enables students to review and grade their own work,
based on teacher-set criteria, so they can easily monitor their own
progress. Students can also anonymously review and grade work
submitted by their classmates, encouraging them to learn from their
peers and build important critical thinking skills while monitoring
their own progress. The Blackboard Academic Suite makes it possible
for school districts to build learning communities among teachers,
parents, and students, by collaboratively creating, managing and
distributing digital content in a district-wide curriculum
management system. Teachers can share, discover and reuse class
materials and lesson plans across their districts. Administrators
can monitor how content is being used with the new 360� view that
provides statistics, tracking, permissions and other information
about specific content. Additionally, the enhanced suite integrates
SafeAssign� by Blackboard, a plagiarism prevention service that not
only helps students learn crucial citation and plagiarism rules,
but also helps teachers ensure originality without time-consuming
investigations. To learn more about specific features and view
purchasing information for the Blackboard Academic Suite, please
visit www.blackboard.com. About Blackboard, Inc. Blackboard Inc.
(NASDAQ: BBBB) is a leading provider of enterprise software
applications and related services to the education industry.
Founded in 1997, Blackboard enables educational innovations
everywhere by connecting people and technology. Millions of people
use Blackboard everyday at academic institutions around the globe,
including colleges, universities, K-12 schools and other education
providers, as well as textbook publishers and student-focused
merchants that serve education providers and their students.
Blackboard is headquartered in Washington, D.C., with offices in
North America, Europe, Australia and Asia. Blackboard Educate.
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discussed in the "Risk Factors" section of our Form 10-Q filed on
November 8, 2007 with the SEC. In addition, the forward-looking
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January 23, 2008.
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