Saba-Centra Live for Blackboard Now Available.New Adapter Streamlines Course Administration; Provides One-click Access to Saba-Centra Virtual Classroom From Blackboard Learning Systems[TM] Products REDWOOD SHORES, Calif. -- Saba (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :SABA), the premier Human Capital Management (HCM) software and services provider, today announced Saba-Centra Live[TM] for Blackboard, a new adapter that extends the integration of its Saba-Centra Live virtual classroom and real-time learning software with the Blackboard Learning System products including Enterprise License; Vista Enterprise License; CE Enterprise, CE Basic, and CE Enterprise Ltd. License. The new adapter enables Blackboard([R]) clients to add real-time learning and virtual classroom capabilities to their existing Blackboard functionality. Students can now schedule and launch live, online Saba-Centra virtual classes directly from their Blackboard Learning System, as well as playback recordings of the virtual classes directly from Blackboard applications. "Saba is a recognized leader in the delivery of online learning and real-time collaboration for academia," said Jan Day, Director of Building Blocks, Blackboard. "We are always excited about the integration between Blackboard and other technology solutions that will provide enhanced teaching and learning capabilities. We expect the integration with Saba-Centra to provide many benefits to the members of college and university communities." "The academic market is an important one for Saba and our alliance with Blackboard will help us provide even more value for the academic enterprise," said Bobby Yazdani, chairman and CEO, Saba. "Our broad range of tools and services to help academic institutions deliver activities such as distance learning, real-time student collaboration, and one-on-one mentoring programs will be made stronger by our deep and seamless integration with Blackboard technology." New Adapter Streamlines Course Administration; Provides One-click Access to Saba-Centra The adapter enables course designers and instructors to create, edit, schedule and manage online Saba-Centra virtual classes, along with their other Blackboard content types seamlessly from the Blackboard interface. "Our students and faculty will be thrilled that the Saba-Centra / Blackboard integration will provide them with one point access for easy navigation between the important synchronous and asynchronous Refers to events that are not synchronized, or coordinated, in time. The following are considered asynchronous operations. The interval between transmitting A and B is not the same as between B and C. The ability to initiate a transmission at either end. components of their classes," said Ruth Horwitz, Manager of Online Programs at Bentley College. "In addition, we hope to expand the opportunity for collaborative learning by adding the ability to create e-meetings directly from the Blackboard dashboard." Course designers and instructors can also add a link to the Saba-Centra virtual class to the Blackboard Calendar and send a link via the Blackboard Mail for all students. Students and any other user in any role can directly attend the Saba-Centra virtual class with a single click directly from Mail, the Calendar or the Content Home. Users can also playback Saba-Centra recordings directly from the Blackboard environment. Whether scheduling, editing or attending a live class or playing back a recording, users will only need to sign-on to the Blackboard system without needing to log into Saba-Centra. Saba-Centra integrated with Blackboard is available for both Windows and Linux server operating systems, as well as Windows and Macintosh client operating systems. Saba-Centra in Academia Hundreds of academic organizations use Saba and Saba-Centra solutions to build innovative programs that reach beyond campus boundaries and provide students and faculty with a rich, collaborative, interactive learning experience that can fit into their busy lives. Customers include: Bentley College; California State University Enrollment  ; Capitol College; Florida State University Florida State University, at Tallahassee; coeducational; chartered 1851, opened 1857. Present name was adopted in 1947. Special research facilities include those in nuclear science and oceanography. ; Graduate School, USDA The Graduate School, USDA is a non-degree granting, continuing education institution headquartered in Washington, DC. It is a non-appropriated fund instrumentality and is only loosely affliated with the U.S. Department of Agriculture. ; Fuquoa School of Business at Duke University; Harvard Medical School Harvard Medical School (HMS) is one of the graduate schools of Harvard University. It is a prestigious American medical school located in the Longwood Medical Area of the Mission Hill neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. ; London Business School Around 800 degree students, from 70 countries, graduate from the school each year. Over 80 percent of students, and over 70 percent of faculty, come from outside the UK. A further 6,000 executives attend the school executive education programmes each year. ; National University of Singapore The National University of Singapore (Abbreviation: NUS) is Singapore's oldest university. It is the largest university in the country in terms of student enrollment and curriculum offered. ; New York University New York University, mainly in New York City; coeducational; chartered 1831, opened 1832 as the Univ. of the City of New York, renamed 1896. It comprises 13 schools and colleges, maintaining 4 main centers (including the Medical Center) in the city, as well as the ; North Virginia Community College; Stanford University's Education Program for Gifted Youth The Education Program for Gifted Youth, at Stanford University, is a gifted education program which offers distance and residential summer courses for students of all ages. , University of South Australia; and University of Tennessee The University of Tennessee (UT), sometimes called the University of Tennessee at Knoxville (UT Knoxville or UTK), is the flagship institution of the statewide land-grant University of Tennessee public university system in the American state of Tennessee. . More information about Saba's products for academia is available at http://www.saba.com/solutions/industry_solutions/universities_educatio n.htm. (Due to its length, this URL may need to be copied/pasted into your Internet browser's address field. Remove the extra space if one exists.) About Saba Saba (NASDAQ:SABA) is the premier Human Capital Management (HCM) software and services provider, using a people-centric approach to increase productivity and performance. As a trusted partner, Saba enables the Aligned Enterprise[TM] for over 1,100 customers in 150 countries by providing an integrated people management system to continuously align goals, develop people, improve collaboration and increase visibility into organizational performance. Saba customers include ABN AMRO, Alcatel, Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, BMW, CEMEX, Cisco Systems, DaimlerChrysler, Dell, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Deloitte & Touche (also referred to as Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, and branded as Deloitte.) is the second largest professional services firm in the world, and one of the Big Four auditors, along with PricewaterhouseCoopers, Ernst & Young and KPMG. , EDS, EMC Corporation, FedEx Kinko's, Insurance Australia Group Insurance Australia Group Limited (IAG) is an Australian publicly-listed company with its shares traded on the Australian Stock Exchange as ASX: IAG. The company was formed by the demutualisation of the NRMA Insurance business in July 2000 and a return of shares to the , Lockheed Martin, Medtronic, National Australia Bank The National Australia Bank or NAB (ASX: NAB, LSE: NAB, NYSE: NAB, TYO: 8637 ) is part of the NAB Group. It is the largest bank in Australia by assets, and 28th largest in the world. , Novartis, Petrobras, Procter & Gamble, Scotiabank, Sprint, Standard Chartered Bank, Stanford University, Swedbank, Wyndham International, Weyerhaeuser, Underwriters Laboratories, and the U.S. Army and U.S. Navy. Headquartered in Redwood Shores, California, Saba has offices on five continents. For more information, please visit www.saba.com or call (+ 1) 877-SABA-101 or (+1) 650-779-2791. SABA, the Saba logo, Centra and the marks relating to Saba products and services referenced herein are either trademarks or registered trademarks of Saba Software, Inc. or its affiliates. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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