Blackboard Solution
Whether a student is hospital or homebound, a traveling athlete or involved in extra-curricular activities, the Blackboard Learning System allows students to take courses online or supplement face-to-face learning. The Virtual Classroom/Collaboration feature allows for live synchronous learning and online office hours. Blackboard's Assignments feature allows students to submit work and teachers to provide feedback online. These Blackboard Learning System features allow school districts to provide course options outside of the traditional high school experience. Therefore, students have access to courses whether for remediation, acceleration or enrichment.

Blackboard Solution
Increasingly, a top priority for many districts and schools is providing a more holistic approach to teaching and learning. Greater parent, teacher and community involvement is viewed as critical for greater student outcomes. To achieve this goal, many schools are using the Blackboard Learning System and the Blackboard Community System.

• Blackboard's Course Authoring/Multi-Media features engage students by offering vibrant online content
• Blackboard's Observer/Parent role engages parents by providing a portal to their children's grades and school activities

• Blackboard's role-based information delivery engages the community by providing an online gateway to new education initiatives and community activities

Blackboard Solution
Many districts and education service agencies are looking for online solutions to provide increased access, variety and collaboration in their professional development programs. The Blackboard Academic Suite is helping build online learning communities and support systems for teachers. The Learning Object Catalog feature allows teachers to build, manage and search high-quality content. The Discussion Board feature allows synchronous/asynchronous discussions on multiple topics that can be easily sorted. In many cases, districts create mini-district “universities” and online support systems to maximize effective training.