Add new functionality or integrate other products into the Blackboard Academic Suite™ and the Blackboard Commerce Suite™ with Blackboard Building Blocks™.
Open, collaborative development is the foundation of the Blackboard Building Blocks program. As Blackboard's open architecture initiative, Blackboard Building Blocks is used by institutions and independent software vendors to develop, contribute, and share innovation.
Blackboard publicly documents Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) for the Blackboard Academic Suite and the Blackboard Commerce Suite. This provides a series of free or inexpensive resources to assure that any developer has the documentation, tools, and knowledge necessary to innovate around Blackboard technology.
Blackboard Building Blocks applications can:
- Extend the Blackboard Academic Suite or the Blackboard Commerce Suite with new functionality
- Provide customizations to meet discipline-specific or pedagogical needs
- Aid system administration
- Automate procedures or repetitive tasks
- Act as a bridge application between the Blackboard Academic Suite and the Blackboard Commerce Suite and external systems or applications