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Former Blackboard CEO Raises $16M to Bring LMS Features to Zoom Classrooms

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Since March, when the global pandemic accelerated, the stock price of the publicly traded online video company has increased five-fold, to over $500 per share, by Wednesday’s close. As it turns out, other companies building on top of Zoom can attract plenty of capital as well. All of these tools are still in development.

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Startup Class Technologies Bets Big on the Future of Online Learning (and Zoom)

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It may not seem too surprising that one of the best-funded edtech startups in the past year of pandemic has been a company that piggybacks on the success of Zoom to add tools for running online classes. The plan when the company started was to start with higher education and K-12 and later expand into the corporate learning market.

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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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4 Items on Instructure’s To-Do List After the Sale of the Canvas LMS Provider

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For example, despite increased activity on the platform—concurrent users on the Canvas LMS were up 60 percent from typical use patterns and video submissions are up tenfold from typical use patterns pre-Covid-19—the costs of moving more data and training more educators will keep the company from a short-term windfall, Benson says.

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New Company Says by Using Its Service, Students Can Test Classroom Tech Before Arriving on Campus

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It turned out that Blackboard Collaborate, the LMS that WBU’s Anchorage satellite campus uses, is not compatible with Safari, the internet browser the student was using. It would make teaching not only online classes but in-person classes easier, because even our in-person classes use Blackboard [too],” he says. offers a solution.

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SchooLinks Raises $7M to Take on a Giant in K-12 College and Career Planning

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For SchooLinks, that meant broadening its portfolio of tools to better serve and connect students and their counselors, all with the goal of helping students identify their interests and goals and find opportunities to achieve them—as early as middle school. In all, SchooLinks boasts over 80 features.

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Meet Caliper, the Data Standard That May Help Us (Finally) Measure Edtech Efficacy

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Over 500 education technologists from companies and districts gathered last week in Denver for the IMS Learning Impact meeting , hosted by the IMS Global Consortium. So far, data sharing capabilities are fairly limited in today’s education technology tools, because there is no standard agreement on how to share data between them.

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