I discovered today that I can stop whining about how cumbersome BlackBoard is, because in their new release it is almost all AJAX Driven, virtually eliminating all of the excess clicking and page reloads. I’m cautiously optimistic about the improvements. As I’m piloting BlackBoard through our provider BlendedSchools.net, I signed up for a preview account in the BlackBoard Sandbox. I only hope that I have positive things to report from that little experiment.

From what I’ve seen so far, this release brings BlackBoard into the Web 2.0 style.  It looks less like it belongs in 1998 (Frames? Really?) and the behind the scenes stuff looks way slicker.   I haven’t even gotten into the Moodle Course integration & Facebook notification options (though I doubt that will be in my middle school version)

BlackBoard Release 9

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