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Capability Set - Bullet

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Common Community Problems

Too Much Information– Institutions have to SPAM their faculty and students – Too many online sources of information – most with unique

passwords Too Little Communication

– Services offered only in-person during normal business hours– Distance and commuter students disconnected from the community– Under-utilized mentors, advisors, and students communities

Learning without Personalization– Online learning communities lack unique look and feel – Disciplines are unique but online learning is the same

Commerce Mayhem– Many departments have no online purchasing of required academic

products and services– Departments have dozens of distinct insecure, complex and costly

solutions

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CONNECTIONS PERSONALIZATION E-COMMERCE ADMINISTRATION

Community Building Tools

Portal Web Services

Channels / Modules

Role-based Info Delivery

Multi-Institution Mgmt

Wireless / PDA

e-Commerce

e-Marketplace

Enterprise Scalability

Multi-Language Support

System Integration

Standards

Building Blocks

Bb Community System Capability Set by : Category

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ANYTIME ANYWHERE ACCESS

INSTRUCTOR EFFICIENCY

ACCESS TO HIGH QUALITY CONTENT

STUDENT CENTERED LEARNING

Portal Web Services

Multi-Institution Mgmt

Wireless / PDA

e-Commerce

e-Marketplace

Enterprise Scalability

Multi-Language Support

Standards

Building Blocks

System Integration Channels / Modules

Role-based Info Delivery

Community Building Tools

Bb Community System Capability Set by : Benefit

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Connections

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Community Building Tools

Campus organizations Student or faculty

associations Community website

creation Community

communications Development and

management can be assigned to individual users or groups.

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Portal Web Services

Self-contained portal and/or service provider to multiple institutional portals

Central point of access for academic and administrative activities

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Channels / Modules

Deliver regularly updated headlines and content to users

Individual users can customize their personal web pages

Availability of modules is role-based

Deliver over 100 modules and channels

Build an unlimited number of additional ones

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Personalization

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Role-based Information Delivery

An undergraduate student,

a faculty member,

or faculty on another campus.

a Biology undergraduate student,

Targeted delivery of information and content based on institution role including:

– Portal tabs – Modules – Channels – Tools – Courses– Organizations

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Multi-Institution Branding and Management

Each schools can be given their own domain and look-and-feel

Each department can be given their own domain and look-and-feel

Each group can be given their own domain and look-and-feel.

Delegated Administration allows System Admins to assign administrative tasks to various individuals or groups

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Wireless / PDA

Access course and portal information through a wireless device or a PDA

Offline viewing of – Announcements– Calendar items– Tasks– Grades– Content– other information

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e-Commerce

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e-Commerce

Charge for items via a student’s campus card or credit card including

– Services– Events – Merchandise – Courses – Organization

membership – Other items

View their one-card account balance, transaction history, and deposit funds (when using Bb Transaction System)

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e-Marketplace

Online storefront Accepts Visa /

MasterCard / Discover / AMEX and campus one-card

Create unified online campus shopping environment

Delegate to multiple vendors

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Administration

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Enterprise Scalability

Proven ability to scale to hundreds of thousands of active users

Supports additional application servers to allow the implementation to grow with adoption

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Multi-Language Support

Enables institutions to run multiple languages on the same system

Supports foreign language courses and students

Supports most European Languages as well as multi-byte character sets such as Japanese and Chinese

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System Integration

Integrates with:– Student information

systems– Authentication

systems– Back-office systems

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Standards

System interoperability (IMS, SIF, OKI, etc.)

Content specifications (IMS, SCORM, NLN, etc.)

Privacy (FERPA) Accessibility (Section

508) Metadata (IMS, Dublin

Core, etc.)

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Building Blocks (Open APIs)

Free software development kit (SDK)

Documented application programming interfaces (APIs).

Create new functionality or integrate external systems with Blackboard products.