THE BLACKBOARD K-12 STARTER EDITIONâ„¢
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THE BLACKBOARD K-12 STARTER EDITION™ As an educator in today’s K-12 school system, you are faced with a growing number of concerns. Meeting No Child Left Behind requirements. Demonstrating high-quality instruction to parents and your surrounding community. Retaining qualified teachers and giving them time to improve their skills. An effective e-Learning solution can help you address these challenges, but many proposed solutions can leave you asking some key questions: • Can I use powerful authoring tools to create captivating, effective content with any web browser? • Can I engage parents and guardians in their children’s learning and make them a part of the e-Learning community? • Can I give students better ways to start a dialogue and provide student-centered learning in a controlled environment? • Can I track and reinforce my students’ improvement over time? • Can I customize the look and feel of my e-Learning environment for a specific school or region? With the Blackboard K-12 Starter Edition, the answer to these questions and many more, becomes “Yes, I Can.” BLACKBOARD’S K-12 LEARNING MANAGEMENT PLATFORM Blackboard is the recognized standard for delivering the most effective and efficient e-Learning solution to the K-12 community. Tried and proven, Blackboard’s Learning Management Platform (LMP) provides a central online hub that unifies four key pillars of teaching and learning: Instructional Delivery and Curriculum Management Deliver distance, blended or supplemental instruction with a forum for content and collaboration. Professional Development Offer anywhere, anytime professional development with coursework, communities of practice and professional resources in one central location. Communication and Community Keep students and parents plugged-in to their studies by integrating collaborative technologies into the classroom. Evaluation and Assessment Create and evaluate individualized learning paths for each student while benchmarking testing to track progress. Engage. Enhance. Create.
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THE BLACKBOARD K-12 STARTER EDITION™
As an educator in today’s K-12 school system, you are faced with a growing number of concerns. Meeting No Child Left Behind requirements. Demonstrating high-quality instruction to parents and your surrounding community. Retaining qualified teachers and giving them time to improve their skills. An effective e-Learning solution can help you address these challenges, but many proposed solutions can leave you asking some key questions:
• Can I use powerful authoring tools to create captivating, effective content with any web browser?
• Can I engage parents and guardians in their children’slearning and make them a part of the e-Learning community?
• Can I give students better ways to start a dialogueand provide student-centered learning in a controlledenvironment?
• Can I track and reinforce my students’ improvementover time?
• Can I customize the look and feel of my e-Learningenvironment for a specific school or region?
With the Blackboard K-12 Starter Edition, the answer to these questions and many more, becomes
“Yes, I Can.”BLACKBOARD’S K-12 LEARNING MANAGEMENT PLATFORM
Blackboard is the recognized standard for delivering the most effective and efficient e-Learning solution to the K-12 community. Tried and proven, Blackboard’s Learning Management Platform (LMP) provides a central online hub that unifies four key pillars of teaching and learning:
Instructional Delivery and Curriculum Management Deliver distance, blended or supplemental instruction with a forum for content and collaboration.
Professional Development Offer anywhere, anytime professional development with coursework, communities of practice and professional resources in one central location.
Communication and Community Keep students and parents plugged-in to their studies by integrating collaborative technologies into the classroom.
Evaluation and Assessment Create and evaluate individualized learning paths for each student while benchmarking testing to track progress.
Engage.
Enhance.
Create.
Case Study
BLACKBOARD K-12 STARTER EDITION As a means of delivering an LMP to those who do not yet have an e-Learning technology solution and are in the beginning stages of the evaluation process, we are now offering the Blackboard K-12 Starter Edition™.
Based on feedback gathered from clients, Blackboard considered the most pressing issues in K-12 today and built a solution which would help schools and districts improve their situation with sensible technology. This quick-start program combines learning management, community building, home-to-school connections and professional development capabilities into one package.
KEY BENEFITS
Give your district a taste of what a powerful e-Learning community can do with the Blackboard K-12 Starter Edition:
• Sample Blackboard’s most powerful and easy-to-use K-12 capabilities • Easily share classroom materials with your entire community • Get parents involved with their children’s learning• Provide access to discussion boards that are controlled and moderated by teachers• Offer innovative testing methods such as self-assessments online or multiple attempts if necessary• Take advantage of secure, around-the-clock, technology hosting• Easy and affordable training options so users can get started right away
FOR MORE INFORMATION
The Blackboard K-12 Starter Edition is made for schools ready to jump-start their e-Learning initiative with a strong pilot program. You may want to consider the Blackboard Academic Suite™ if your school or district already has a strategic e-Learning program or a comprehensive technology plan in place.
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Blackboard K-12 Starter Edition
To learn more about starting your e-Learning community with the Blackboard K-12 Starter Edition or the Blackboard Academic Suite, visit our web site at: www.blackboard.com/inpractice/k12
or contact us at: 1-800-424-9299.
“The Blackboard K-12 Starter Edition was the right fit at the right time. We were just beginning and needed a solution that wasn’t overly laden with features we wouldn’t use. The K-12 Starter Edition has many features that we will employ out of the gate to create a robust online learning environment, yet will be manageable as our programs mature from their infancy.”
-Ryan LeClaire,Director of Instructional Technology
Peninsula School District – Gig Harbor, WA
