Blackboard Building Blocks

With Blackboard Building Blocks, you can add functionality or integrate other products into Blackboard Learn™ or Blackboard Transact™. This open architecture initiative gives you the documentation, tools, and knowledge necessary to innovate around Blackboard technology.

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Online Attendance

This building block is designed to help instructors using Blackboard as a supplement to traditional face-to-face classes, track and mark attendance for a course while also allowing the student to keep...

Document Unpackager

The Document Unpackager allows you to upload a zip file containing folders and files to Blackboard. It is then unpackaged and course content items are created with the files attached. The directory ...

Baylor Podcast Building Block

This is an easy-to-use building block that will allow instructors to create podcasts for their classes. It creates a new content type ("Podcast"). The podcast shows up along with other course "docum...

Blog/Wiki Link Enable

Create Blog or/and Wiki links in the Course Menu. Being used in production.

Who's Online Portal Module (release 6)

Updated for Blackboard Portal System (release 6.0.11) the Seneca Who's Online portal module displays all users who have a current session within Blackboard. This is good tool to monitor user activity...

MERLOT Building Block

MERLOT is MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching) is a FREE, leading edge; user-centered, searchable collection of peer reviewed and selected higher education, online...

Browser Tester

A portal module (i.e. you need to be running the Community System) that runs some JavaScript tests on the user's browser to see if it is correctly configured for Blackboard. Also a pop-up tester and s...

Advanced Group Management

This Course Tool extension appears in the instructor's control panel and provides an alternative to Blackboard's built-in group management tools. It includes the same functions as the built-in too...

Discussion Grader

The Discussion Grader simplifies the process of evaluating a student's participation in Blackboard discussion forums by allowing an instructor to access to a single page with every message that a stud...

RSS module with descriptions

A portal module which takes existing channels (RSS feeds) and allows the user to choose the number of headlines to show, whether to display the descriptions, if so at what size, and whether links shou...

Course Evaluation and Survey System Building Block

This Building Block provides Blackboard users with EvaluationKIT’s powerful and simple to use Course Evaluation and Survey System, integrated into the Blackboard environment. Key Features Include: ...

Online Course Registration and Payment - GoSignMeUp

With GoSignMeUp, course and event registration is online, organized and integrated with Blackboard 7.x,8.x and 9.x Learning Systems. An easy interface delivers a positive registration experience. Th...

Document Unpackager

Starfish EARLY ALERT

Starfish EARLY ALERT offers the latest in early warning and case management capabilities. The system identifies students in real-time that are at-risk of dropping out due to academic, financial or so...

ClassTop

Drag and drop into Blackboard with ClassTop. ClassTop has a rich drag-and-drop interface that dramatically reduces the time instructors spend managing course content, announcements, and communication....

CourseFeed by ClassTop

CourseFeed is a free building block that combines learning content from Blackboard with the Facebook social network. Students go to class to both socialize and learn. By introducing Blackboard learn...

Discussion Grader

SafeAssign Building Block

SafeAssign is a plagiarism prevention service, offered by Blackboard to its Blackboard Learning System™ Enterprise, Vista Enterprise and CE Enterprise clients. This service helps educators prevent pl...

Pronto Basic

Pronto Basic is a free instant messaging and voice chat tool for Blackboard that allows students and instructors to spontaneously meet live online at any time to discuss their coursework! Get Pro...

WebEx Session Collaboration Building Block

The WebEx Collaboration Building Block is designed to provide academic institutions with tight integration between their Blackboard Course Management System and WebEx Training Center, the leader in vi...

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