In spring 1999 a web-based communication tool named Blackboard made its debut at Northwestern in four classes with a total of 200 students. Five years later about 1,000 faculty and instructors ...

Blackboard Ultra is William & Mary’s learning management system (LMS), used to deliver digital course content, assignments, tests, and communication tools. While the platform itself supports ...

Richard Appiah Akoto, a teacher from Ghana, garnered international praise for instructing his students on how to use Microsoft Word in a very unusual way—without utilizing a computer. Two years ago, ...

Blackboard, a leading education technology company, has acquired Requestec, a WebRTC technology provider. Blackboard is best known in the educational community for supporting a range of collaboration ...

William & Mary is entering the final phase of its transition from Blackboard Original Courses to Ultra Courses. Academic courses are currently taking full advantage of Ultra, and now non-academic ...

Blackboard today released a study on how instructors and students in 70,000 courses across 927 institutions used Blackboard Learn, the company's learning management system. The research found five ...

If you have reached the 2GB course storage limit, schedule an instructional design consultation to have your course reviewed by an instructional designer. During the consultation, the instructional ...

A teacher in Ghana went viral after pictures of him were taken showing his class how to use Microsoft Word on a blackboard. In the pictures, students can be seen taking notes about how to use the word ...

Today Blackboard has announced a new iPad app that lets users interact with the learning management system. (On the one hand, this isn’t going to make anyone feel any better about the iPad’s ...

The Georgetown University Student Association Senate unanimously passed a bill on March 17 urging the university to encourage more professors to use Blackboard’s Gradebook feature, which allows ...

In an age when software firms come and go like the seasons, one company has survived and even prospered, and it isn't Google, Yahoo or Ebay. Blackboard Inc., based in Washington D.C., is the leader in ...