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Instructure to Sell Bridge for $50M and Exit Corporate Learning Market

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Where Instructure planned to go with Bridge, its learning management system for corporate and enterprise customers, has been an open question for over a year, when the company was still publicly traded. Goldsmith is no longer CEO, and the Salt Lake City-based company is now privately owned by private equity firm Thoma Bravo.

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PowerSchool to Acquire Schoology, Pairing Major K-12 LMS and SIS Providers

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Since 2015, PowerSchool has acquired eight companies. Through these deals, the company has expanded its product suite beyond its original K-12 student information system offering to assessment, enrollment, special education and talent management services. Given their respective footprints in the U.S. and Canada.

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Enhance eLearning with Moodle & KITABOO: Create & Publish Securely

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One popular LMS is Moodle, known for its versatility and powerful features. But what sets Moodle apart is its seamless integration capabilities, particularly with innovative solutions like KITABOO. Before that, let’s understand what Moodle is first. About Moodle II. Understanding Moodle Integration with KITABOO III.

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Reliable Turnitin alternatives for K12

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In other words, Turnitin uses CrossRef databases indexed by IThenticate , which also belongs to this company. Let’s see what each of them offers before assessing which one is the best. Administrators also note that this service is easy-to-integrate, with flexible assignment settings in Canvas and Moodle.

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Moodle: The Unsung Hero of LMS Options

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There are many LMSs to choose from, but none as flexible, scalable, feature-rich, and affordable as the open source ecosystem of Moodle. Moodle got its start years ago as a method to organize blended learning and online classes. For example, I stumbled my way through it with no programming experience or Moodle background at all.

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Can Entrepreneurs Balance Educational and Financial Returns?

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Perhaps it is because of the myth of the entrepreneur that resounds throughout popular culture: examples like Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg, who both dropped out of college, and in doing so, seemingly spurned education in order to build major tech companies—and yet now each have education initiatives of their own. Blackboard Inc.,

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How Kids Really Learn

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Urkund: Today’s Sponsor Urkund is great as a plagiarism prevention tool and connects with most common Learning Management Systems like Google Classroom, Moodle, and Canvas or as a stand-alone web tool or by email. This company has no impact on the editorial content of the show. Students just turn in work.

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