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Blackboard for K-12 Let’s Build a Better Educational Experience 1
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Many District Initiatives How can technology play a role? What is the best approach? 2 Professional Development Blended Learning Virtual School Initiatives Parent & Community Outreach Credit Recovery Student Data Management
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Web Based Teaching & Learning Campus Commerce & Security Multi-Modal Alerts & Notifications Mobile Access & Connectivity Reall Time Classrooms & Collaboration Education Analytics & Reporting Strategic Consulting Student Services & Support Managed Hosting Our Platform 3
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Blackboard Learn Allows institutions to put their courses online to supplement traditional classes as well as offer fully online programs Add-on modules include: Course Delivery Content Module Community Module Over 3,300 clients and 15 million users 4
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Blackboard Collaborate Enables teachers to hold real time courses online including chat, whiteboard, audio and video Add-on modules include: Instant Messaging for Education Voice Module Over 950 clients and 6 million users. 5
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Blackboard Mobile Delivers campus services and content to mobile devices including Apple iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, BlackBerry, and Android Products include: Bb Mobile Central Bb Mobile Learn Over 220 clients and hundreds of thousands of users 6
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Bb’s Managed Hosting Service: Offering Services since 1999 Servicing around 25% of Customers from All Market Sectors – Almost 200 clients from our K12 community Bb Hosting Team Members located in 4 Continents 5 Tier-4 Datacenters - 12,000+ SqFt of Global Datacenter Space 99.7% or Better Uptime Availability Guarantee (SLA) 99.98% - Actual network uptime across all clients in the last 24+ months
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Our Community BLACKBOARD SERVES MORE THAN 4,500 K-12 INSTITUTIONS AND CLOSE TO 75% OF ALL HE INSTITUTIONS IN NORTH AMERICA
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Content Partnerships That You Desire 9 Integrated content that teachers can easily incorporate directly into their course environment.
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What is the Blackboard Suite of products comprised of? Course Delivery Community Engagement Content Management Mobile Learn 10
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What is Course Delivery? Course Delivery is the ability to deliver fully online and/or blended/hybrid learning courses This provides teachers with the ability to post content online and create teacher web pages Functionality includes but is not limited to: – Ability to post any type of content, such as documents, videos, images, etc – Assessments/Assignments – Plagarism Detection with Safe Assign – Collaborative Tools, such as Discussion Boards, Wikis, Blogs, Journals, etc – A fully robust Gradebook – A multitude of Monitoring Tools to quickly identify Student trends such as Students that are performing poorly – Ability to communicate with Students and Parents via Email or an Internal Blackboard Messaging Tool – Standards Alignment Tools to align ALL course content to State and Common Core Standards – Lesson Planning Tools to not only build but to also Plan from within the Blackboard platform 11
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What is Community Engagement? Community Engagement provides clients with the ability to create Blackboard as their teaching and learning portal. A portal that is role based and dictates access to users based on role in the system (ie. ONLY Teachers would have access to a Professional Development section) Functionality includes but is not limited to: – Multiple branding to cater to multiple needs (ie. Different brands for the High School and Middle School) – Domain Management to create multiple entry pages and define multiple levels of administrative rights – Ability to create Blackboard as your district’s community web presence – Customized Module and Tab creation to truly customize the Blackboard experience (think of your Blackboard Homepage as an iGoogle page with information displayed dictated by the User) 12
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What is Content Management? Content Management is a “true” content management solution that provides the district with a centralized content repository to store institutional documents Functionality includes but is not limited to: – Central management of institutional content that tracks usage, modifications and access to all Users across the district – Role based content management to dictate Read, Write, Manage and Remove privileges to any object stored in the CMS – The ability to create a Learning Object Repository for Teachers to search, share and reference objects tied to State and Common Core Standards – Digital Lockers for every User with size dictated by the District – A fully integrated ePortfolio Tool – A collaborative area for Teachers to create/edit/publish Lesson Plans and activities that can then be shared throughout the district 13
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What is Mobile Learn? Mobile Learn provides every User in the district with the ability to access Blackboard from a native app built for any iOS (iPhone, iPad and iTouch), Android or Blackberry device Functionality includes but is not limited to: – 24x7x365 access to your Blackboard courses from a Smartphone – The ability to not only read but also engage in content within your Blackboard Courses (ie. The ability to take a picture from your Smartphone and upload it to your Classroom Discussion Board) – A great way to combat issues affiliated with the “Digital Divide” due to the ubiquity of Smartphones today – Connectivity with your Students through the devices they know and love 14
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