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Blackboard, Inc. was founded in 1997 with a vision to enable educational innovations by connecting people and technology. This innovation and leadership has rewarded the Washington D.C. based company with sales of over $180 million dollars in 2006. Today, Blackboard’s online learning application is the most widely adopted course management system among U.S. postsecondary institutions.
It was a chance meeting at the EDUCAUSE 2006 annual conference between Blackboard’s Aaron Goldstein, head of International Business Development at Blackboard, and members of the SAP Public Sector group, where the seeds for the Blackboard/SAP partnership were planted.
Online classrooms for today’s distance learning applications must include real-time services – a tough challenge for most educational institutions. Academic applications such as the Blackboard Academic Suite can readily handle the e-learning revolution with features such as Syllabus Builder, a tool that enables instructors to design and develop lesson plans. Performance Dashboards give a view of student progress, indicating if a student has reviewed specific content items. And Gradebooks provides central storage for student performance, including grade weighting, item analysis and custom grading scales
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