Capability Set Bullet

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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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Bb Community System Capability Set by Category
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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,

• Targeted delivery of information and content
  based on institution role including
• Portal tabs
• Modules
• Channels
• Tools
• Courses
• Organizations

a Biology undergraduate student,
a faculty member,
or faculty on another campus.
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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 students 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.