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Fostering Active and Social Learning
Create exciting learning opportunities for today’s students with integrated student engagement tools that expand learning opportunities through active participation in and beyond the classroom. |
Promote Active Collaboration and Social Learning
• Course Wikis drive student interaction through content creation, editing and ownership.
• Blogs and Journals promote discourse and reflection.
• Discussion Boards, Virtual Classrooms and Chat encourage ideas and debate.
• Groups provide a venue for student-centered collaboration and communication.
• Learning Modules – Table of Contents guide students through a structured learning experience.
• Adaptive Release builds a rule structure to determine the content students see.
Engage Students with Multi-Media Content
• Mashups integrate Web 2.0 resources from youtube.com, slideshare.com and flickr.com.
• NBC News Archives enable teachers to easily access multimedia content related to historical and current events.
Engage Students With a New User Interface
• Web 2.0 User Experience creates and delivers effective content with an intuitive, easy-to-use interface.
Increase Accessibility
• Advanced Accessibility Options that have been Gold Level certified by the National Federation of the Blind for Non-Visual Accessibility. |
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Promoting Planning and Productivity
Enable intuitive planning and instructional productivity with integrated efficiency tools for teachers and organizational leaders to deliver a more engaging student experience. |
Deliver Organized and Effective Instruction
• Lesson Planning builds personalized and integrated lesson plans and aligns to state standards.
• Learning Modules – Table of Contents support structured instructional design.
Share and Manage Learning Content at the Course Level and Across the District
• Course Files enable the easy upload and management of course level content.
• Content Management module enhancements easily upload and manage content across courses and organizations. |
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Enhancing and Monitoring Evaluation
Provide educational insight into classroom instruction with integrated lesson plans, standards alignment and standards reporting. |
Monitor Activity and Progress
• Assessment Manager centrally creates and manages multiple assessment types.
• Grade Center centrally manages all assessments and grades in context.
• Notification Dashboard keeps teachers on top of students who need immediate attention or assistance. |
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Enabling District-Wide Efficiency
Do more with less and drive district-wide efficiency with streamlined processes and automated standards mapping. |
Enhance Communication
• Student Notifications give teachers the ability to send e-mail notifications to students and are accessible from a central student notification dashboard.
Drive Standards-Based Teaching and Learning
• Course Level Standards Alignment empowers teachers in standards alignment processes.
• Standards Aligned Content and Curriculum ensures compliance with state standards through integrated alignments.
Ensure Compliance with State Standards
• Coverage Reports generate multiple levels of reporting that highlight both “covered” and “gaps” in coverage to gain insight into standards-based instruction – from individual courses and learning levels to district-wide disciplines.
Maximize your Investment in Curriculum Management
• Standards Importing aligns course content and lesson plans with imported standards from 50 U.S. states and Washington, DC.
• Standards Mapping implements new standards in a shorter time frame with a streamlined standards mapping process. |
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Delivering Continuous Professional Development
Sustain and reinforce professional collaboration with productivity and engagement tools, delivering organized and continuous professional development.
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Model Structured and Organized Instruction
• Lesson Plans provide templates that model strong organization and pedagogy.
• Course Files make it easier to build and maintain professional development programs with in-course file storage and management.
Reinforce Professional Collaboration
• Course Wikis drive collaborative participation across professional development courses.
• Groups provide a venue for professional collaboration and communication.
Keep Teachers Engaged Beyond the Classroom
• Learner Notifications give professional development course instructors the ability to send e-mail notifications to teachers and staff.
• Blackboard Mobile Learn™ application brings interactive teaching and learning to mobile devices, creating an engaging mobile learning experience for teachers on the go. |
