BLACKBORD

Blackboard LLC was founded in 1997 by two education advisors, Matthew Pittinsky and Michael Chasen, as a consulting firm to provide technical standards for online learning applications. This platform integrates data and applications for e-learning.

Benefits of the Blackboard Learning System

Students and faculty may benefit from course management systems such as the Blackboard Learning System. Potential benefits include: (1) increased availability, (2) quick feedback, (3) improved communication, (4) tracking, and (5) skill building.

1)  Blackboard can be accessed from the internet at anytime and anywhere. Students can retrieve all of their course materials including assignments, lecture notes, slides, internet hyperlinks, and audio/visual aides. They can submit their assignments as soon as they are complete. It is this accessibility that most appeals to students

2)  , students can take their tests and have all objective-based questions graded and scores available immediately after they submit their responses

3)  There are several features of Blackboard that allow for communications with students. Four of the more distinctive options are announcements, discussions, virtual classroom, and email.

4)  Tracking. Blackboard tracks student usage of courses and posts these results in the course statistics area. Instructors can obtain statistics on all students or individual students within the course. Individual assignments can also be tracked

5)  Skill building. There are several additional skills that are promoted with the use of Blackboard. These skills include organization and time management, which go hand-in-hand in helping students carry out their assignments efficiently. Blackboard provides the ability to include a calendar for each course in which a student is enrolled, thus optimizing students’ efforts to match course expectations. 

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