Blackboard

Can you inform your community when you need to? Whether it’s an urgent situation or just day-to-day events? Either way, safety, reliability, efficiency and speed are universal needs.

Blackboard Connect™ provides millions nationwide with time-sensitive information – via voice, text, email, and more. It’s the proven way to alert your stakeholders and enhance their safety by keeping them informed, involved and prepared.
  

Reliable communication is the cornerstone of preparedness. You need the ability to reach all your stakeholders– quickly and reliably.

Blackboard Connect™ is the proven way to reach people with important, time-sensitive information. You can reach tens of thousands in minutes via voice, e-mail, SMS text messaging and networked digital signage.

These robust and scalable solutions are protected by redundant hardware and systems that assure your message gets through – whatever the circumstances.



- Informing constituents in Barrington, IL
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When important information needs to be communicated, you can’t afford downtime of any kind.

Blackboard Connect™ is protected by redundant hardware and systems, and backed by multiple telco providers. Our technology employs sophisticated algorithms to analyze congestion at all levels to assure rapid and reliable delivery of every message.

The result: 99.99% uptime. And you can also rest easy in the knowledge that we serve higher education institutions nationwide– and that the families of one in every five students enrolled in the nation’s K-12 public schools utilize our platform.



- Staying in touch during Hurricane Katrina
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Blackboard Connect™ is a fully managed Software as a Service (SaaS) solution. There is no need to invest in, or maintain, any additional hardware, software or phone lines.

One low, fixed annual fee affords unlimited use. That means you can use the service as often as you wish, with no extra charges– not even long distance. With regular use, you’ll strengthen community relationships, enhance preparedness and reach your stakeholders like never before. Unlimited use means unlimited uses.  



- Emergency planning at the University of North Texas
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With a combined set of alert, community outreach, and survey notification tools, Blackboard Connect™ offers unlimited possibilities for improving communication. Whether you are looking to improve emergency preparedness or advance student achievement, you can quickly and reliably reach your community with personalized messages.

That’s why government agencies nationwide rely on us for everything from emergency communications to routine announcements. Whatever your needs, Blackboard Connect puts the power to send time-sensitive communications to your community at your fingertips.



- Disseminating urgent information in St. James, NC
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