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Blackboard Congratulates NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Mars Perseverance Landing

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Thursday, February 18, 2021

RESTON, Va., Feb. 18, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --On Thursday, Blackboard Inc., a leading global EdTech software and solutions company, saluted the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) on the successful landing of the Perseverance rover on Mars.

Key Points: 
  • RESTON, Va., Feb. 18, 2021 /PRNewswire/ --On Thursday, Blackboard Inc., a leading global EdTech software and solutions company, saluted the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) on the successful landing of the Perseverance rover on Mars.
  • The JPL Mars team uses Blackboard Learn SaaS to create and deliver training activities for multi-disciplinary teams.
  • The partnership began in 2017 when JPL implemented Blackboard's leading learning management system (LMS), Blackboard Learn, to deliver learning activities.
  • "Blackboard is humbled to support these amazing achievements by NASA," said Bryna Dash, Vice President of North America Government at Blackboard.

K16 Solutions Announces Breakthrough With Scaffold Migration: Blackboard Customers Can Now Migrate To Ultra More Quickly, Affordably, And Accurately

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Tuesday, December 8, 2020

With its one-of-a-kind and revolutionary Scaffold technology, K16 Solutions becomes the only real viable option on the market for Blackboard customers who remain stuck in the older version of the LMS, Blackboard Original, to migrate with extreme precision to the newer version, Blackboard Ultra.

Key Points: 
  • With its one-of-a-kind and revolutionary Scaffold technology, K16 Solutions becomes the only real viable option on the market for Blackboard customers who remain stuck in the older version of the LMS, Blackboard Original, to migrate with extreme precision to the newer version, Blackboard Ultra.
  • Until now, Blackboard customers who needed to move their course content to Ultra were forced to use Blackboard's migration tool that simply left the content fragmented and incomplete.
  • K16 Solutions has successfully migrated over 125,000 courses with Scaffold Migration and has integrations with LMS platforms Coursera, Sakai, Blackboard, D2L, and Canvas.
  • Scaffold technology, powered by K16 Solutions, allows schools to easily and seamlessly migrate LMS platforms, build better courses, and archive outdated online courses.

Open LMS Expands Global Moodle Offering with Acquisition of eThink Education

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Monday, December 7, 2020

As part of the acquisition, eThink will be integrated into Open LMS.

Key Points: 
  • As part of the acquisition, eThink will be integrated into Open LMS.
  • Open LMS has a vision to consolidate and innovate the commercial Moodle offering for education institutions and corporations worldwide.
  • With the integration of eThink, Open LMS is bringing together the two premiere Moodle organizations in the world to provide world-class service and scale to our clients.
  • The acquisition comes on the back of a successful year for Open LMS, which separated from Blackboard in March 2020.

Alabama Community College System Expands its Partnership with Blackboard to Improve Student Outcomes

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Tuesday, November 10, 2020

The company's EdTech ecosystem includes Blackboard Learn, a responsive and advanced cloud LMS; Blackboard Collaborate, a simple and reliable virtual classroom solution; Blackboard Ally, a revolutionary accessibility solution; and Blackboard Data, an innovative analytics platform.

Key Points: 
  • The company's EdTech ecosystem includes Blackboard Learn, a responsive and advanced cloud LMS; Blackboard Collaborate, a simple and reliable virtual classroom solution; Blackboard Ally, a revolutionary accessibility solution; and Blackboard Data, an innovative analytics platform.
  • "At Blackboard our mission is to advance learning and we are proud to expand our partnership with the Alabama Community College System to move its 24 colleges to Blackboard Learn Ultra and our holistic EdTech ecosystem," said Kathleen Vieira, Chief Strategy, Portfolio and Marketing Officer at Blackboard.
  • "At the Alabama Community College System, student success comes first and implementing a system-wide learning management system will help us ensure the student experience is consistent across the state," said Jimmy H. Baker, Chancellor at the Alabama Community College System.
  • "Integrating Blackboard's services at our 24 colleges will raise the bar on the student experience and provide additional tools for our faculty to improve student outcomes."

Blackboard Releases New LMS Feature Aimed at Helping Students Succeed in College

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Monday, November 9, 2020

The feature directly connects students in one click to support services from their institution and curated third-party help services.

Key Points: 
  • The feature directly connects students in one click to support services from their institution and curated third-party help services.
  • Blackboard Assist provides students easy access to their institution's support services such as academic, career, health and wellness, student lifeand social services in one centralized location within the LMS.
  • Blackboard Assist includes the following resources for students:
    Institutional Services pages Institutions globally that are on the SaaS deployment of Blackboard Learn can post their campus resources for students.
  • Blackboard is exploring additional partners in the United States and internationally to add to Blackboard Assist in the future.

K16 Solutions Partners with Loyola University New Orleans Once Again for Its LMS Needs - Archiving Student Data

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Monday, November 9, 2020

In August 2020, Loyola University New Orleans migrated its LMS platform from Blackboard to Canvas using K16 Solutions' state-of-the-art technology, Scaffold Migration.

Key Points: 
  • In August 2020, Loyola University New Orleans migrated its LMS platform from Blackboard to Canvas using K16 Solutions' state-of-the-art technology, Scaffold Migration.
  • The university will now use Scaffold once againthis time, to archive its old course content and student data.
  • With few archiving options on the market, archiving student data on legacy LMS platforms is both a common and costly option for most institutions.
  • Scaffold's technologically advanced design archives student data much more efficiently and affordably, thereby passing the savings on to institutions.

Blackboard Releases New K-12 Classroom-to-Home Communications Solution

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Tuesday, October 27, 2020

Blackboard Reach empowers parents or guardians and teachers to have meaningful, real-time conversations that fuel student success.

Key Points: 
  • Blackboard Reach empowers parents or guardians and teachers to have meaningful, real-time conversations that fuel student success.
  • The solution consolidates all communications in a one-stop tool helping to protect the privacy and safety of messages between teachers and families.
  • It works within a district's Blackboard Mobile Communications App or responsive web interface and integrates with a district's student information system (SIS) reducing setup time.
  • "Our Blackboard Reach solution provides a more secure, flexible, interactive, and authentic way to facilitate two-way communications.

Unizin and Blackboard Partnership Enables More Inclusive Learning Experiences in Higher Education

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Thursday, October 22, 2020

RESTON, Va., Oct. 22, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Blackboard Inc. , a leading EdTech software and solutions company, and Unizin, a consortium of leading higher education institutions, today announced a partnership to create a more inclusive and data-informed learning environment for Unizin member institutions.

Key Points: 
  • RESTON, Va., Oct. 22, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Blackboard Inc. , a leading EdTech software and solutions company, and Unizin, a consortium of leading higher education institutions, today announced a partnership to create a more inclusive and data-informed learning environment for Unizin member institutions.
  • Blackboard will also implement learning data interoperability standards in Ally to integrate learning data to the Unizin Data Platform (UDP), enabling institutions to build effective data-driven practices at scale.
  • "Through data informed insights into accessibility barriers, we are excited to help Unizin members make a scalable impact on inclusive education."
  • The Unizin Data Platform is a flagship technology solution developed by Unizin to enable higher ed institutions to integrate, aggregate, and normalize teaching & learning data.

ClassEDU Launches to Bring "Class for Zoom" Product to Market to Help Millions of Teachers and Students Learning Online Due To COVID

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Wednesday, September 23, 2020

"Due to COVID, millions of students are learning online, and education is changed forever," said Michael Chasen, ClassEDU co-founder and CEO and former Blackboard co-founder and CEO.

Key Points: 
  • "Due to COVID, millions of students are learning online, and education is changed forever," said Michael Chasen, ClassEDU co-founder and CEO and former Blackboard co-founder and CEO.
  • That's why we designed Class for Zoom to feel and work like an in-person classroom, and to bring back the happiness of school to teachers and students."
  • Due to COVID, education has drastically changed as students and teachers shift to online learning models.
  • By making the virtual classroom feel like a real classroom, we bring happiness to teachers and students.

K16 Solutions Reaches Unprecedented Milestone in LMS Course Transfer: 100,000 Courses Migrated

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Tuesday, August 25, 2020

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Aug. 25, 2020 /PRNewswire/ --K16 Solutions, the industry leader in ed-tech for LMS migration and instructional design, announced another milestone today in the number of total online courses it has successfully migrated between LMS systems.

Key Points: 
  • SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Aug. 25, 2020 /PRNewswire/ --K16 Solutions, the industry leader in ed-tech for LMS migration and instructional design, announced another milestone today in the number of total online courses it has successfully migrated between LMS systems.
  • The 100,000 figure includes completed course migrations through multiple LMS platformsincluding Blackboard, Canvas, Moodle, Sakai, D2L, and more.
  • K16 Solutions has been averaging a migration rate of about 7,000 courses per week, and the number is increasing weekly.
  • K16 Solutions has over 100,000 more courses contracted for migration through the remainder of the year and into 2021.