Blackboard Bautista, Kristine Meren, Aubrey Morales, Deck
What is Blackboard? Blackboard is a course management tool for instructors who want to create web pages for their courses without the fuss of writing HTML code. Allows on-line quizzes, discussion boards and collaborative group work
Why was it created? Vision “Transforming the Internet into a powerful environment for the education experience” “Transforming the Internet into a powerful environment for the education experience”
Blackboard Timeline 1997 – Matthew Pittinsky and Michael Chasen (Blackboard LLC) merged with a student-faculty team at Cornell University to form Blackboard Inc – Blackboard CourseInfo launched 1999 – grows more than 500 clients 2001 – grows more than 1,500 clients
Usage Statistics 7,000 students 496 instructors 902 users with other roles -2004, ,
System Requirements: Recommended OS and browsers: Mac OS 10.3 or above Windows XP Professional or 2000 Internet Explorer 6.x Service Pack 1 (PC) Safari 1.x (Mac) Internet Explorer (Mac OS X)
Minimum hardware requirements: 64 MB RAM 1 GB disk space 56K modem Helper applications: Adobe Acrobat Reader Adobe Acrobat Reader RealPlayer RealPlayer QuickTime QuickTime FlashPlayer FlashPlayer