WASHINGTON, May 16, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Blackboard Inc.
(Nasdaq: BBBB) today announced several new integrations for its
Blackboard Collaborate™ solutions, Elluminate and Wimba,
that bring new capabilities to institutions leveraging the leading
education-focused collaboration solutions with course management
systems including Sakai and
Moodle.
The new integrations continue Blackboard's approach of providing
greater choice and flexibility with the use of Blackboard
Collaborate solutions. The company maintains a set of integrations
built on open architecture and open APIs that enable the seamless
use of Elluminate and Wimba solutions with Blackboard's leading
teaching and learning platform, Blackboard Learn™ as well as
ANGEL®, WebCT®, Sakai®, Moodle™, Desire2Learn™, Pearson
LearningStudio and Fronter.
Two of the new integrations support the use of Elluminate Live,
giving Moodle users new capabilities including backup, recovery and
improved work flow, and offering Sakai users an improved user interface, the
ability to obtain external recording links and an option to add
unregistered guest users to a session.
The third new integration supports use of Wimba Classroom 6.1
with Moodle and offers granular security and video setting controls
within the system interface.
"The Elluminate Sakai integration has been a tremendously
effective and easy to use piece of our LMS that draws new users in
each semester," said Ryan Allen,
Assistant Director of E-Learning Systems and Support at the
University of Dayton. "With these new
integrations, our students have access to improved usability for
launching sessions and recordings, a tool that integrates
seamlessly and opens doors for collaboration."
As part of the Blackboard Collaborate solutions, Elluminate and
Wimba solutions are continually being developed to deliver choice
and flexibility in technology and learning. Integrating with
multiple LMS, CMS or VLE applications, Blackboard Collaborate
reduces support costs for institutions and enables extensibility at
low risk.
"These new integrations reflect our focus and commitment to our
clients, and our goal of supporting learning wherever it is taking
place," said Maurice Heiblum,
President of Blackboard Collaborate. "The integrations are also
evidence of our intent to support institutions with an open
approach and continued investment in improved technologies."
To learn more about Blackboard Collaborate, please visit
http://www.blackboard.com/collaborate.
About Blackboard Inc.
Blackboard Inc. (Nasdaq: BBBB) is a global leader in enterprise
technology and innovative solutions that improve the experience of
millions of students and learners around the world every day.
Blackboard's solutions allow thousands of higher education, K-12,
professional, corporate, and government organizations to extend
teaching and learning online, facilitate campus commerce and
security, and communicate more effectively with their communities.
Founded in 1997, Blackboard is headquartered in Washington, D.C., with offices in North America, Europe, Asia
and Australia.
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SOURCE Blackboard Inc.