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Blackboard Inc. and Trivantis Announce Partnership.


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WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 20, 2001

Trivantis' Lectora Publisher Offers Blackboard (1) See Blackboard Learning System.

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 Customers a Robust

Offline Authoring Tool That is Now Featured Within the

Blackboard Resource Center

Today, Blackboard Inc., the leading Internet Internet

Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the
 infrastructure company for e-Education, announced a new partnership with Trivantis Corporation, the leading provider of e-Learning (Electronic-LEARNING) An umbrella term for providing computer instruction (courseware) online over the public Internet, private distance learning networks or inhouse via an intranet. See CBT.  technologies and content development services for educational institutions and corporate learning environments.

Blackboard and Trivantis are both strong supporters of e-Education standards and through this agreement plan to work cooperatively to support them.

Trivantis' Lectora Publisher(TM) is an offline-authoring tool that allows Blackboard customers to create fully interactive courses that can be easily posted to Blackboard. Instructors can readily create e-Education content because Lectora eliminates the need for programming skills. Information on Lectora is available in the Blackboard Resource Center(SM) (http://resources.blackboard.com/scholar/general/pages/marketplace/), Blackboard's online aid to academic research, designed to enhance and enrich the learning experience.

"The College of Education at The University of Cincinnati The University of Cincinnati is a coeducational public research university in Cincinnati, Ohio. Ranked as one of America’s top 25 public research universities and in the top 50 of all American research universities,[2]  uses Lectora everyday in conjunction with Blackboard. Lectora's drag and drop A graphical user interface (GUI) capability that lets you perform operations by moving the icon of an object with the mouse into another window or onto another icon. For example, files can be copied or moved by dragging them from one folder to another.  interface gives professors, as well as students, the means to create high quality e-Learning courses, class projects and student teaching portfolios. In one example, Blackboard and Lectora will be two key applications we are going to use next year for our new Criminal Justice Distance Education Program. I am delighted that Blackboard and Trivantis are committed to working together through their partnership," said Jeffry Gordon, professor at The University of Cincinnati.

"Lectora offers an unmatched combination of ease of use, flexibility and power. Just as chalk is the perfect compliment Not to be confused with Complement.
Compliment may be
  • An expression of praise, congratulation or encouragement.
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 to an instructor using a traditional blackboard, Lectora is the perfect compliment to instructors using the modern Blackboard," said Tom Elmer, director of educational sales for Trivantis. "By teaming up with Blackboard and their industry-leading, user-friendly software platform, we are able to help keep instructors focused on what is most important - education - not technology."

"At Blackboard, we constantly seek to provide our customers with the best possible products and services," said Todd Todd , Sir Alexander Robertus 1907-1997.

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 Gibby, general manager of Blackboard's Course & Portal Solutions business. "By working with Trivantis, we are able to offer our customers a viable, best-of-breed authoring tool to help them make their e-Education efforts more efficient and effective."

About Blackboard Inc.

Blackboard Inc. was founded to transform the Internet into a powerful environment for teaching and learning. The company offers a complete suite of enterprise software products and services that power a total "e-Education Infrastructure" for schools, colleges, universities and other education providers. Blackboard solutions deliver the promise of the Internet for online teaching and learning, campus communities, auxiliary auxiliary

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 services and integration of Web-enabled student services and back office systems.

Blackboard's two major lines of business, Course & Portal Solutions and Commerce & Access Solutions, are consistently ranked by industry analysts as the market share and customer satisfaction leaders for thousands of academic institutions and a leading number of the Internet's most popular consumer education sites. The company is headquartered in Washington, D.C., with offices and staff across North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , Europe and Asia. Please visit www.blackboard.com for more information.

About Trivantis

Cincinnati, OH-based Trivantis Corporation provides world-class e-Learning technologies and services that enable the creation, distribution, and management of multimedia educational content. Trivantis develops e-Learning solutions that enable educators in academia, the business sector, and government to create and publish high quality educational content. Trivantis solutions are designed to help overcome the technical barriers traditionally associated with publishing to the Internet. The Trivantis flagship product A primary product of a company, which is typically why the company was founded and/or what made it well known. For example, MS-DOS, Windows and the Microsoft Office suite have been flagship products of Microsoft. CorelDRAW is a flagship product of Corel Corporation. , Lectora Publisher, helps subject-matter SUBJECT-MATTER. The cause, the object, the thing in dispute.
     2. It is a fatal objection to the jurisdiction of the court when it has not cognizance of the subject-matter of the action; as, if a cause exclusively of admiralty jurisdiction were brought in a court
 experts within an organization to immediately start creating courses, collaborate with colleagues and convert content to provide rapid transfer of knowledge across the enterprise so that organizations can shorten (audio, compression) Shorten - A form of lossless audio compression.  time to productivity. For more information, please visit www.trivantis.com or call 877.929.0188.

NOTE: Trivantis, the Trivantis logo, and the marks relating to relating to relate prepconcernant

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 other Trivantis products and services referenced herein are either trademarks or registered trademarks of Trivantis Corporation.
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