Where’s the Blackboard Academic Suite™?
Blackboard Learn is the successor to the widely deployed Blackboard Academic Suite (Release 6-8, and CE editions). This latest evolution of our solution came to be thanks to the host of advancements and innovations in Blackboard LearnTM, Release 9. A release in which our software has matured to become a true platform for teaching and learning. With a totally new user interface, deeper integration of its parts and expanded openness, it brings its own set of powerful capabilities for engaging and assessing learners at all levels. But Blackboard Learn can also now play the role of foundation to the other technologies you want to run to support your institution’s unique brand of teaching and learning, whether you are in Higher Education, K-12 or Professional Education.
Simply put, a lot has changed with our technology. So we’ve given it a new name. Blackboard Learn. And because we’re finding new and better ways for its components to work together, we’re thinking and talking about those pieces differently too. Sure, they can still act on their own if you need them to. But they’re most powerful when you get them working together. So we’re focusing on what’s most important... what they do, not so much what they’re called.
Blackboard Learn has capabilities that together roll up to a pretty powerful and unique teaching and learning platform, one we think goes well beyond the categories and boxes (CMS, LMS, etc.) we know today. Capabilities that we’ll increasingly mix and match to find just the right recipes to support your needs.
FAQ’s
1. Does Blackboard Learn mean that anything changes for my current Blackboard implementation?
No, the Blackboard Academic Suite (releases 6 -8, and CE/Vista editions) stays the same and will still be supported in the same way it is today. There is no change to your license with us and your product will continue to be referred to by its current name by us and throughout the Blackboard community. Once you move to Release 9, you will be on the Blackboard Learn platform, and will maintain all of the capabilities you may have today in the form of other Blackboard solutions in use at your institution (i.e. the Blackboard Community or Content System).
2. I’ve got additional questions about making the move to Blackboard Learn with Release 9, where can I learn more?
Go to
www.blackboard.com/release9 to learn more about upgrading, get answers to Frequently Asked Questions, and more. Or contact your Blackboard Client Manager.
Want to know more about the broader changes going at Blackboard?
Learn more about our next chapter from CEO Michael Chasen