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LMS Evaluation Report

Products

Blackboard ML

Blackboard Inc.: http://www.blackboard.com/

Last major evaluation update: Jan '03

strong points

  • Clean, easy-to-use interface
  • Powerful "virtual classroom" tool
  • Good possibilities for interoperating with other systems (e.g. students and administrative information systems)
  • Building blocks programme for extending the system
  • Good documentation

weaknesses

  • Limited customizability of look and feel
  • No internal resource or file manager
  • Frame based display: no bookmarking of individual course pages.