This release of Blackboard adds several exciting new features and a completely redesigned, modern Web 2.0 user interface. You'll get a "sneak peak" at some of the many reasons you might just like Bb 9.1, including:
The new user interface - more customization options and fewer "clicks" to get something done!
Drag 'n Drop functionality for both students and instructors
Blogs, Journals, and Wikis -- Oh No (Oh Yes)!
Updated (i.e. more manageable) Group tools
Useful (and needed) enhancements to the existing Assignments tool and the Grade Center
And many more
Emory released a suite of mobile applications last Monday that allows students, faculty, staff and visitors on the Oxford and Atlanta campuses to access information about the University via smartphones. The application was made available for the iPhone immediately, with models for Blackberry devices and browser-based mobile websites set to follow on its heels.
Contains history of Bb mobile
I love CUNY and I love public education. Blackboard is a parasite on both. Writing free software is the best way I know to disrupt the awful relationship between companies like Blackboard and vulnerable populations like CUNY undergraduates.
Good list of why Bb is bad, including It forces, and reinforces, an entirely teacher-centric pedagogical model.
Following an evaluation process that encompassed almost two years, Michigan Tech
selected the Canvas Learning Management System,from Instructure, Inc. It was the clear
choice of faculty and student testers, and is very intuitive and easy to use.
A pilot of the Canvas Learning Platform involving Western faculty, students and support staff, provided
strong support for a recommendation that Western transition from Blackboard to Canvas. A summary of
the results of the pilot study as well as options and timelines for the transition are presented in this
report. ATUS will continue to evaluate transition options and present those recommendations by March
30, 2013