The Blackboard Learning Management System (LMS)

Todays corporates recognize the necessity to develope their employees in order to improve competitiveness. Many leading corporates are building their own internal learning programmes around Blackboard Learning System™ to manage not only content and courses, but also employee learning programmes and advancement.

The Blackboard Learning System™ is a Web-based server software platform that offers industry-leading course management, an open architecture for customization and interoperability, and a scalable design that allows for integration with student information systems and authentication protocols.

The industry's most popular teaching and learning environment, Blackboard Learning System™ features a robust setting for content management and sharing, online assessments, student tracking, assignment and portfolio management, and virtual collaboration. The Blackboard Learning System is well recognized for its ease of use and scalability, allowing clients to achieve widespread adoption in a supported environment. And like all of Blackboard's systems, the Blackboard Learning System is designed to integrate with existing administrative and authentication systems with colleagues, partners and customers.

Blackboard Learning System Feature Overview

The Blackboard Learning System is an industry leading course management system based on a third-generation enterprise technology platform featuring:

• Curriculum-driven content management and content sharing provides instructors with flexibility and control

• Re-architected assessment management system is designed to improve assessment creation workflow and provide flexibility in deploying tests and surveys

• Design based on client feedback and usability testing, i.e. the Gradebook improves instructor productivity

• New functionality allows instructors to electronically manage the collection and organization of assignments via the integrated Gradebook interface

• Discussion boards and new Virtual Classroom tool enable dynamic collaboration and communication in the learning environment

• Robust enterprise system administration enables institutions to successfully manage system growth by reducing administrative overhead

• Data management for integration with student information, identity management and authentication systems

• Virtual Installations provide ability to create multiple distinct Blackboard environments on the same system hardware and software

• Built on the Blackboard Building Blocks architecture which enables customization, extension and integration of the platform

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