338:, Gilfus and Cane decided to merge CourseInfo LLC. with Chasen and Pittinky's Blackboard LLC. company in order to raise money and scale the business. The combined company became a corporation known as Blackboard Inc. They renamed the CourseInfo platform built by the Cornell team to Blackboard's CourseInfo; the CourseInfo brand was dropped in 2000. As an extension of CourseInfo's original two weeks for free courses, the company provided a hosted version "CourseSites" for teachers to try out for free. After having raised its seed round, the new company made a profit in its first year, and its sales in 1998 approached US$ 1 million. Other early products included Blackboard Classroom and Blackboard Campus both derivatives of the original platform.
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Inc, enlarging its share of the higher education market to between 65 and 75 percent. Over the next five years, the company invested in a series of new products and acquisitions, including
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The company has also made acquisitions in order to expand its product base with other education-related services and software. Such acquisitions include: NTI Group in 2008, which became the basis for
Blackboard Connect; providers of online and mobile collaboration tools Wimba, Inc. and Elluminate,
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Blackboard Connect service in 2008, for use by school districts and higher education institutions to send out mass phone, text and e-mail notifications. The service can be used for routine alerts and notifications, academic or instructor notifications, or by school
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Though the software is proprietary, developers are able to extend the functionality of the system, and create customized course management and delivery by developing software and applications known as
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and analysis, with applications for educational institutions to analyze student numbers, class scheduling, and financial information. The platform was created as a business intelligence tool specifically for higher education institutions and uses data from colleges' student information, human
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granted the company U.S. Patent 6,988,138 for "Internet-based education support system and methods" in
January 2006. The patent established Blackboard's claims to the concept of connecting together web-based tools to create an interconnected university-wide course management system. The firm
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technology. Blackboard Transact also includes a program for off-campus vendors that allow students to pay for goods using their college's campus card. In March 2019 Blackboard announced that Transact was to be spun off, having been acquired by Reverence Capital Partners.
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Inc., its largest rival in the education software industry, in 2005. According to market research company Eduventures, the merger with WebCT increased the firm's share of the higher-education market to between 65 and 75 percent. In 2009, the acquisition of
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called MOOCs, and it introduced student profiles and databases in 2014. Bhatt also changed the company's strategy for acquiring new businesses. Rather than purchasing competitors, Bhatt has stated he prefers to acquire companies based on their innovations.
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Blackboard Student Services provides management services for student admissions and enrollment, financial aid, and student accounts and retention. It also provides IT and helpdesk support to students and faculty for learning management systems.
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Blackboard Open LMS was created when Blackboard acquired Moodlerooms and NetSpot in 2012. Blackboard saw significant growth in their open source group through 2018, before selling that division in 2020 to Learning Technologies Group.
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agreement. In April 2010, the firm abandoned patent 6,988,138, and in November that year the company's legal counsel announced the patent's "official termination" and stated that Blackboard had ended its appeals.
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and Novak Biddle Venture Partners. At this time the company renamed its "Course Management System" product category into the "Learning Management Systems" category in order to sell to the corporate space.
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and web services. In 2011, the firm re-launched the original CourseSites offering, a free version of its Blackboard Learn and Collaborate software, for which it provides hosting and support.
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2128:"Blackboard Expands Transact Business with CardSmith Acquisition"
1795:"Providence Increases Blackboard Buyout Loan as Outflows Subside"
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front end for the transaction system. The Transact system is
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customizations and extensions for Blackboard Learn through
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1917:"Blackboard CEO Jay Bhatt on the Global Future of Edtech"
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expanding beyond the learning management system market.
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course management software, Prometheus, in 2002; and
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1886:"Blackboard CEO Chasen To Step Down"
1827:"Our Company is getting a new name!"
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832:"Company Overview of Blackboard Inc"
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2385:"Blackboard's Open-Source Pivot"
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2298:Young, Jeff (January 12, 2011).
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1296:. LISTSERV 16.0. Archived from
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3601:Educational software companies
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3148:Clark, Sarah (March 8, 2010).
2547:. Blackboard. August 13, 2015.
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586:course delivery and management
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1511:"Blackboard's Screeching IPO"
863:Andy Medici (July 27, 2018).
678:transaction processing system
3203:. PR Newswire. March 7, 2019
2758:"Blackboard Building Blocks"
2602:Hill, Phil (June 28, 2017).
2545:"Blackboard acquires Nivel7"
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1308:– via AERA-K Archives.
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