Resources

Developer's Network

Join a growing group of developers getting under the hood of the Learn platform and contributing to the community by creating new Building Blocks, sharing helpful code and leveraging open source technology to extend Blackboard platforms. With an active development community, open APIs, forums and sample code Blackboard has provided Learn developers with the resources to take advantage of its open platform. Developers are also supported by Blackboard’s dedicated, world-class technical staff.

Support for Academic Developers Includes:

• Communications and collaborations via Listservs, OSCELOT and open source contributions
• Edugarage - a Blackboard supported, community driven forum for developers providing consultation and the sharing of best practices
• Sample code and complete projects to the Blackboard developer open source community
• Through Blackboard events, like DevCon and DevDays, academic developers have opportunities to co-develop and network with fellow Blackboard developers (both academic and commercial)