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Blackboard Collaborate™ 11 At a Glance

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Blackboard Collaborate: Customer-driven Development

All-new Blackboard Collaborate™ 11 provides features and functionality that support individual needs and learning styles to maximize student engagement and learning.

Now you can expand your learning spaces, enhance dialogue, enable learning without constraint, and improve outcomes, all while reducing costs and increasing revenue.

New solutions that provide a wide spectrum of collaboration

  • Accommodate different learning styles or instructional needs with a single-click launch of web conferencing from instant messaging.
  • Save time with dynamic whiteboard content that is reusable across the learning and collaboration platform.
  • Increase ease of use and provide a higher-quality experience with consistent live video (follow the speaker and multipoint) and tabbed chat in web conferencing.
  • Facilitate richer interaction and contextual learning with shared content improvements, like embedded HTML content in the chat area and with web tour

Customer-driven development that improves the user experience

  • Speed ramp-up time, promote greater adoption, and realize a rapid return on investment with an easy-to-use, redesigned user interface.
  • Streamline workflow, provide one-click access to common functions, and offer a greater choice of collaboration modes with simplified console windows for web conferencing and enterprise instant messaging.
  • Increase access for users with disabilities and meet accessibility guidelines with improved keyboard navigation and screen-reader support for instant messaging.
  • Provide an effective teacher/student feedback mechanism that personalizes the learning experience and saves time via voice authoring and recording capabilities.

An educational platform built for the academic enterprise

  • Go beyond the classroom with student and library services, help desk, office hours, ad-hoc meetings, professional development, and more with our multiple-use platform.
  • Realize low administrative overhead, hassle-free upgrades, and limited downtime with a convenient SaaS-hosted architecture.
  • Leverage investment in existing academic infrastructure and aid in planning for future integrations with available integrations for major educational learning and content management systems.
  • Enjoy greater in-session moderator control with more granular permissioning.
  • Expand reach worldwide with language translations in Arabic, Chinese, French, Polish, Brazilian Portuguese, and Spanish.