The Learning Platforms team supports several enterprise tools and third-party integrations to extend the use of the Blackboard Learn Ultra system for teaching and learning. Below are a list of the current tools integrated into Blackboard, including support resources and licensing options.
MathWorks: Automatically grade MATLAB code in any learning environment. Resources. Qwickly Attendance: Attendance tracking tool. Resources Box: Store and manage content in a highly encrypted, secure, online environment. Resources Follet Discover: A tool for faculty to use to review and select course materials. Resources Kaltura: Kaltura is a video management platform used to upload, manage, share, publish, and stream videos and video quizzes within Blackboard. Resources OneNote: A note-taking program for free-form information gathering and multi-user collaboration. Resources OneDrive: Cloud storage to store your files and photos, sync across all your devices, and even edit and collaborate on Office documents. Resources Auralia/Musition (Available for Frost School of Music): Ear training and music theory software. Resources Voice Thread: A collaborative application to share multimedia, with interactive feedback options such as voice, text, or video comments. Resources Purchase of the e-textbook is to leverage the following integrations. Cengage: Provides external course materials (e-textbooks, assignments, activities) to supplement course content. Resources Macmillan Learning: An online resource where students can access their e-book, take quizzes, and more. Resources McGraw-Hill: Class reports and analytics of student progress in one place. students don’t have to log in to different applications. Resources Pearson: Provides additional course materials, assessments, and communication. Resources Pearson MyLab & Mastering: Provides additional course materials, assessments, and communication, specific to MyLab and Mastering content. Resources SAGE Vantage: A digital platform that provides SAGE content with auto-graded assignments. Resources Vital Source: Platform for distributing, accessing, consuming, and engaging with digital textbooks and course materials. Resources WileyPlus: Tailor curated content and easily manage your course in order to engage and motivate students. Resources H5p (Individual License only): Create and Share Rich HTML5 Content and Applications. Resources Soft Chalk Cloud: Softchalk is a lesson building application that allows users to create, customize, and personalize e-learning content. Resources Course Reserves: Library services platform used for integrating electronic course reserves into Blackboard (articles, book chapters, syllabi, lecture notes, etc.). Resources Research Guides: Materials and resources appropriate for disciplines, courses, and special topics, curated by UM librarians. Resources iClicker Cloud (Licensing: Student / department purchase): iClicker Cloud, is a platform instructors use to engage students with polls and assignments, assess students with quizzes, and keep track of attendance. Resources Feedback Fruits (Available for School of Law): Collaborative tool suite used for self and peer feedback, and social annotation. Resources Echo360 (Available for School of Law): Video-based learning tool for engagement, authoring and assessments. Resources Microsoft Teams: Microsoft Teams is a video conferencing tool that integrates with Blackboard, which allows for scheduling and launching of meetings. Resources Panopto (Available for: Miller School of Medicine): Panopto is a lecture capture tool and video platform to record, webcast, manage, and share video content. Zoom: Zoom is a video conferencing tool that integrates with Blackboard, which allows for scheduling and launching of meetings. ResourcesAssignments
Attendance
Content
E-Textbook
Interactive Content and Authoring
Library Integration
Polling Software
Social Annotation
Video Conferencing