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

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Its product is called “Class for Zoom,” and what it’s building is pretty much that—a suite of tools that let instructors take attendance, distribute and grade assignments, and deliver online assessments through Zoom. If some of these functionalities sound like what one might find in a learning management system, that is no coincidence.

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Learn about the resources that can help district leaders develop the next generation network infrastructure necessary to support multiple mobile devices on and off campus, the delivery of digital content, and administration of online assessments. Join this Blackboard Collaborate session here.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

People were relieved that there was a new alternative to Blackboard. The company IPO’d in 2015 and finally surpassed Blackboard’s US market share in 2018. What mattered to this crowd was the business of ed-tech, not the pedagogies. And for a time, the business of Instructure was good. Apple sneers about this.

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Blackboard Learn Ultra : Ready or not?” Via Education Week : “Some test questions are likely harder to answer on tablets than on laptop and desktop computers, presenting states and districts with a new challenge as they move to widespread online assessments. Will the Market Provide Them?”