1. Blackboard Bautista, Kristine Meren, Aubrey Morales, Deck

2. 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

3. 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”

4. Blackboard Timeline 1997 – Matthew Pittinsky and Michael Chasen (Blackboard LLC) merged with a student-faculty team at Cornell University to form Blackboard Inc. 1998 – Blackboard CourseInfo launched 1999 – grows more than 500 clients 2001 – grows more than 1,500 clients

5. Usage Statistics 7,000 students 496 instructors 902 users with other roles -2004, http://blackboard.duke.edu/about/usage.do -2004, http://blackboard.duke.edu/about/usage.dohttp://blackboard.duke.edu/about/usage.do

7. 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 5.2.3 (Mac OS X)

8. 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