Blackboard Inc.

Blackboard Inc. provides enterprise software applications and related services to the education industry in the United States. Its Blackboard Learning System allows education providers to support an online teaching and learning environment; and the Blackboard Community System includes functionality for student organizations, faculty and staff, departmental collaboration, information distribution, and single sign-on access to existing administrative systems. The company's Blackboard Content System provides enterprise content management capabilities; and supports teaching, learning, research, archival and library, extracurricular, and departmental activities. Its Blackboard Outcomes System enables the planning and measuring of student, teaching, and institutional outcomes, as well as provides a set of instruments for student and program assessment; and the Blackboard Portfolio System is a personal portfolio application that enables users to collect and organize their academic work.

The company's Blackboard Transaction System is an enterprise software application to establish an integrated student debit account program for charging incidental expenses, such as meals and academic materials using the campus ID card. Its Blackboard One system enables students and faculty to use their university ID cards as a form of payment off-campus. The company also offers application hosting services for clients to outsource the management of their Blackboard Academic Suite systems. In addition, it offers project management, integration of its applications with existing campus systems, user interface customization, installation and configuration, course and content migration, custom application development, training, and consulting services. Blackboard Inc. serves colleges, universities, schools and other education providers, textbook publishers, and student-focused merchants. The company was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Washington, the District of Columbia.