LEARNING APPLICATION PARTNERS
Blackboard's PowerLinks Learning Application Partners offer compatible e-learning systems or tools that extend or enhance the capabilities of Blackboard's products. The products are being used in conjunction with Blackboard's e-learning systems on customer campuses today.
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Anystream Anystream is the world's leading supplier of digital media workflow automation software. Their newest product, Apreso Classroom, is an easy and affordable solution for automatically recording lectures and publishing them online for on-demand review by students. Apreso Classroom starts and stops automatically based on course schedules. It then assembles the instructor's remarks, video, and any projected visuals into a rich media presentation, and instantly publishes it to any Web location. Apreso Classroom automates the entire process, from capture, through distribution, to making the content available in an instructor's Blackboard course. This hands-off automation makes it the first system practical and affordable enough to make on-demand availability of lectures commonplace. |
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Brownstone Brownstone provides a suite of easy-to-use products for self-grading, algorithmic assessment and homework problems. Our online product, EDU Campus, is specifically designed to handle the complex content and free-response answer requirements of disciplines like math, chemistry, biology, physics, statistics, finance and accounting. EDU Campus includes powerful mathematics and graphics engines, including the world-class Maple mathematical software. Additionally, EDU Campus provides flexible assignment management options that match the instructor's teaching style.
Brownstone's popular desktop product, Diploma, integrates test-generation software with a grade book program and seamlessly exports to EDU, and course management systems. Diploma's authoring environment and algorithm editor let instructors write a wide variety of questions. Add metadata, feedback, hints, tables, OLE objects - its all there. Leading publishers use Brownstone products for their computerized question banks and homework management services. |
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Concord For over 15 years, Concord has specialized in the development and integration of library and content management systems for education. Its proven Masterfile Digital Content Server provides a powerful and highly scalable digital repository which can be interfaced to a suite of available solutions, including Digital Library, ePortfolio and Course Content Management. Any electronic file and associated metadata, including compound objects, can be stored and managed via a web browser and then retrieved in native format or using dynamic HTML conversion. Item usage can be reported for copyright tracking purposes. Items need only be contributed and stored once and may be shared with multiple courses and published to a variety of web-based applications. |
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Design Science WebEQ by Design Science is an equation editor based on MathML, the powerful language for Web-based math. Blackboard has embedded this editor in both Blackboard Learning System - CE Enterprise License and Blackboard Learning System - Vista Enterprise License so that Blackboard users can type, manipulate, and edit mathematical notations in many Blackboard tools and areas, including: content pages, quiz questions and answers, discussion topics and messages, mail, and notes. |
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eInstruction With over 200 universities using CPS worldwide, eInstruction is the leading supplier of handheld response pads into the education market. eInstruction has partnered with educators around the world to pioneer the use of response pad technology in classrooms and lecture halls. The Classroom Performance System (CPS) can be used for taking attendance, sparking class discussion, generating class participation grades, administering exams, and recording and storing student performance data. With CPS, you can interact with a class of 30 or 300 --transforming your students from passive listeners to active learners. |
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Elluminate Elluminate Live! adds real-time collaboration and synchronous learning to Blackboard with one-click integrated access. Only Elluminate offers an affordable online instruction delivery solution that enables you to duplicate any learning environment, from lectures and debates to small group discussions and presentations. Elluminate ensures the best user experience through superior quality VoIP, communications that are in-sync regardless of connection speed, video capabilities, broad cross-platform support, application sharing, quizzing and advanced yet easy-to-use moderator tools. And it works seamlessly between MacOS, Windows and Solaris. |
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Endeavor Endeavor partners with today's discerning academic libraries to deliver on time and under budget implementations of complete solutions for accessing, searching and linking. Endeavor and Blackboard partner to ensure instant access to information through ENCompass Course Content Integration. Manage, search and link digital collections from your e-learning system through ENCompass, an end-to-end digital framework. ENCompass provides linking, federated searching, and digital collection management, plus searching without limits and courseware integration to fully utilize the institution's digital resources. Endeavor also creates the robust Voyager robust integrated library management system to provide full-featured library functionality and the LinkFinderPlus OpenURL-enabled link resolver to bridges the gap between citations and the online full text of articles, providing maximum usage of the library's journal subscriptions.
The Endeavor Information Systems PowerLink , currently in development, utilizes the Blackboard PowerLinks framework to more tightly intertwine the Endeavor solution into the Blackboard Learning System - Vista Enterprise License e-learning experience. |
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Ex Libris Group The Ex Libris Group is a worldwide supplier of software solutions and related services for libraries and information centers. Since its inception over two decades ago, Ex Libris has consistently identified and fulfilled market needs, setting the standards for library and information systems. The company's product suite includes ALEPH 500 , the integrated library system; MetaLib , the information portal for library collections; SFX , the original context-sensitive link server; DigiTool for digital collections management, and Verde , the new electronic resource management (ERM) system.
Ex Libris aims to continue empowering libraries and information centers worldwide by providing users with the finest technological solutions for accessing, integrating, and personalizing their heterogeneous information environment. Ex Libris is committed to achieving this goal by continuing to offer top-tier component-based solutions, proactively addressing emerging information industry requirements. |
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Giunti learn eXact by Giunti Interactive Labs is the world's first Learning Content Management System, enabling you to create, store and reuse learning objects natively based on XML technology and in conformance to all international standards and specifications for e-learning content management (e.g. IMS, ADL SCORM, AICC and LRN). Using the learn eXact PowerLink , instructors and designers can export learning objects from the learn eXact LCMS in a format that can be imported into Blackboard Learning System - CE Enterprise License for presentation. |
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Harvest Road HarvestRoad specializes in the provision of Federated Digital Repository technologies within interoperable Learning Content Management Systems for the K-12, higher education and corporate e-education market. HarvestRoad's flagship product, HarvestRoad Hive , augments learning and course management systems with a fully integrated digital repository to enable customers to collect, publish, manage, search for and share a single instance of a learning object across multiple courses. |
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Horizon Wimba Horizon Wimba develops web-based collaboration software that is often considered to be the next step beyond text-based virtual learning environments. Appearing as and accessible as any other tool within Blackboard, its collaborative learning applications for online distance education, language learning and live interactive communications enable instructors and students to fully embrace the new wave of pedagogical opportunities afforded by campus-wide networks and the internet, regardless of geographic location, bandwidth or operating system. Its virtual rooms enable instructors to conduct live, online classes, meetings, office hours and study groups, and its vocal collaboration technologies add oral content directly into course content, webpages and assessments. Horizon Wimba adds new dimensions to online, accessible education, personalizing and humanizing the online learning experience for all Blackboard users. |
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iParadigms Recognized worldwide as the standard in online plagiarism prevention, Turnitin helps educators and students take full advantage of the Internet's educational potential. Our proprietary system instantly identifies papers containing unoriginal material and acts as a powerful deterrent to stop student plagiarism before it starts. Our customized Originality Reports give extensive documentation of potential plagiarism; any text found in our system appears underlined, color-coded, and linked to its original source. All work submitted to Turnitin is checked against three huge databases of content: a continuously updated and archived copy of the Internet, an index of published works from the ProQuest databases, and our database of previously submitted student papers. |
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The Learning Edge The Learning Edge International is a leading software solutions provider for the educational market. The Learning Edge International’s principal offering is EQUELLA.
EQUELLA is a Digital Repository that incorporates Learning Objects, Learning Content Management and integrated WYSIWYG content authoring.
EQUELLA enables educators to discover, classify, compare, document and enhance the power of Digital Learning Resources – across campus, across institutions, or across the country.
EQUELLA protects your institution with Digital Rights Management and Copyright enforcement, has been designed to IMS specifications, and is SCORM compliant.
EQUELLA seamlessly integrates with Blackboard Learning Systems, and is a Building Blocks and PowerLinks partner.
EQUELLA has been implemented within a wide variety of Universities, Community Colleges, Schools and Corporate institutions. |
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Link-Systems International Link-Systems International specializes in communication of mathematical, scientific, technical and medical material. The WorldWideWhiteboard provides high quality integrated distance learning tools for Blackboard Learning System - CE Enterprise License and Blackboard Learning System - Vista Enterprise License. |
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Macromedia Macromedia is motivated by the belief that great experiences build great business. Macromedia provides the industry-leading software that empowers developers and designers to create and deliver those effective, compelling, and memorable experiences. With the Macromedia Dreamweaver PowerLink for Blackboard , faculty can create course content in Macromedia Dreamweaver MX and publish this material to Blackboard. The free extension eliminates the need for tedious hand-coding of XML describing the content elements and structure. The Macromedia Dreamweaver PowerLink is compatible with Blackboard Learning System - CE Enterprise License and Blackboard Learning System - Vista Enterprise License. |
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MERLOT MERLOT is a free and open resource designed primarily for faculty and students of higher education. Links to online learning materials are collected at MERLOT along with annotations such as peer reviews and assignments. You are welcome to browse the collection or search for materials. Members may add materials, comments and assignments to MERLOT. Membership is free. |
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Nuventive Nuventive's iWebfolio is an innovative electronic portfolio system that gives students, faculty, and staff a personalized and flexible tool for storing and presenting a lifetime's worth of education and professional experiences. The Nuventive iWebfolio PowerLink leverages the Blackboard PowerLinks framework to tightly integrate the Nuventive solution into the Blackboard e-learning experience. Integration with Blackboard provides students and instructors with a seamless method to share course and learning documents and artifacts between the portfolio and course management environments. This will allow materials from a portfolio to be readily used for course work and allow materials developed for a course to be stored documented for ongoing management and display via iWebfolio. |
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O'Reilly Media and Pearson Technology Group SafariU is a new service that offers computer technology educators a rich platform for creating both online and print materials tailored precisely to their teaching needs. With SafariU, you can compile a custom book from chapters and sections of books published by O'Reilly Media, Addison-Wesley, Prentice Hall, and other top tech imprints, as well as from articles published on the O'Reilly Network or your own material. And you can deliver your custom online or print compilations to students at a lower cost than a traditional textbook. Students can purchase your custom print book via the campus bookstore, and you can also post a link to your online book within your Blackboard course. Learn more or register for access . |
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Questionmark Questionmark Perception software enables users to write, deliver, score and report on quizzes, tests, exams and surveys. Powerful reports help you monitor the progress of individuals and groups and provide in-depth statistical analysis. Using Blackboard's PowerLinks framework, QuestionMark is developing the QuestionMark Perception PowerLink , enabling the integration of QuestionMark assessments in to Blackboard courses and automatic updating of the Blackboard gradebook. |
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RealObjects RealObjects edit-on editing solutions simplify and streamline the process of content authoring. Included with Blackboard Learning System - CE Enterprise License and Blackboard Learning System - Vista Enterprise License, Real Object's edit-on Pro 2.1 HTML Editor with spell-check provides course designers with "What You See is What You Get" (WYSIWYG) content creation and editing capabilities, making it easier than ever to create and maintain content within the Blackboard course environment. |
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Respondus Respondus Inc. develops assessment and game authoring tools that integrate with Blackboard Learning System - CE Enterprise License and Blackboard Learning System - Vista Enterprise License. The Respondus 2.0 PowerLink is a Windows application that makes it easy to create and preview Blackboard quizzes offline. The editor is similar to a word processor and includes an equation editor, spell checker, table editor, and full multimedia support. Respondus 2.0 will import questions from a word processor and then publish the assessment to the quiz tool in Blackboard Learning System - CE Enterprise License or Blackboard Learning System - Vista Enterprise License. The StudyMate 1.0 PowerLink is a Windows application that let's you create nine Flash-based activities and games using three simple templates. The interactive activities can then be published directly to a Blackboard Learning System - CE Enterprise License or Blackboard Learning System - Vista Enterprise License course. StudyMate will additionally import materials from MS Word, rich-text, IMS QTI , Respondus, and Blackboard's glossary export format, making it possible to create activities from existing content. | |
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Sentient Learning Sentient Learning provides integration solutions for e-learning. Sentient DISCOVER v2.0 is an innovative learning resource management system which helps institutions leverage investments in existing technologies and learning resources. Sentient DISCOVER seamlessly integrates course management systems, integrated library systems, OpenURL resolvers and content repositories such as online journal databases. |
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Software Secure Software Secure tools enable Blackboard users to benefit from computers in testing and teaching without the harmful consequences of cheating and digital distraction (i.e., web-surfing, game-playing). Our Securexam Browser product locks students into a Blackboard test and prohibits access to pre-existing information, the Internet, or the ability to print questions. Securexam Browser enables faculty to use Blackboard for true assessment, attaining the benefit of computer-based testing without risking any breach of exam integrity. Our Classmate product enables the responsible use of Blackboard as an in-class teaching and learning resources. With Classmate, faculty can control when students have access to the network or their desktop, push down specific Internet content, administer real-time surveys and turn faculty or student computers in to an electronic white-board. With Classmate, faculty can incorporate technology at their own pace with the confidence that it will be used responsibly and for better and more productive learning. Classmate enables the in-class use of Blackboard in a focused and controlled environment. |
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SteelEye SteelEye is a leading provider of IT solutions for business continuity and disaster recovery. SteelEye LifeKeeper offers enterprise-grade reliability while simplifying implementation with certified solutions for a wide range of applications and databases running on Windows and Linux, including mySAP, Exchange, Oracle, DB2, SQL Server. |
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Talis Talis List is a web-based system designed to manage collections of resources, such as reading lists. Talis List makes it easy to create attractive, user-friendly lists of links and references, which direct users straight through to your library catalogue, or to any web-accessible electronic resource. |
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TaskStream TaskStream is the leader in delivering on-demand tools and supporting services for standards-based instruction, competency assessment and electronic portfolios. From individuals to trans-national organizations, TaskStream equips learners and content providers with a flexible and affordable system for efficiently achieving diverse outcomes. |
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Tegrity Tegrity is a leading provider of platforms for e-learning content creation and distribution, specializing in enabling education and training organizations to automatically convert classroom instruction into engaging and effective web content for on-demand and live delivery. Institutions can intertwine Tegrity into their Blackboard course by using a URL link to access streaming lectures and software tutorials for distance and on-campus learning. |