Blackboard is an American company, founded in 1997 and located in Virginia. They provide technologies that help educational organizations across the world manage their work, organize the school life of students, as well as improve teaching process. They’re widely known for Blackboard Learn, a learning management program. The company technologies are used in more than 18000 schools from 100 countries.
The Blackboard Learning System is a virtual learning environment developed by Blackboard Inc. The history of this system begins on January 21, 1997, when Stephan Gilfuss and Dan Kane started a company called CourseInfo LLC, they decided to develop a software product that would manage online education and be scalable for broader institutional applications. At the same time, Matthew Pittinski and Michael Chasen formed, Blackboard LLC.
The two groups merged to form Blackboard Inc. which then evolved into the Blackboard Learning System, in other words, the Blackboard Learning System.
The system provides a unified, interactive environment for learning, interaction, and information exchange between learners or students and university faculty and instructors. It helps to manage the virtual learning environment, create electronic educational resources, provide remote access to the educational resources of the institution, monitor the educational process, provide platforms for distance learning courses, accumulate, structure, manage access, replenish the educational base, and provide means of communication and information for participants.
What is Blackboard?
Blackboard is the name of an American technology company, which was established in Virginia in 1997. The company is mostly known for its student and training online services, and other products connected to the educational sphere. In 2021 Blackboard merged with Anthology.
The 1997 company logotype is the inscription with the name of the brand. It has a typical sans serif typeface with bold black letters. The coloring of the inscription can change to white depending on its background. The nameplate doesn’t have any special elements, symbols or other features.
The name has a typical sans serif type with smaller gaps between medium-bold letters. Partially, due to this simplicity, Blackboard has an image of an educational organization which works with governments and helps to study people worldwide. The background stresses this image of a strict brand: it doesn’t have any gradient shades, toxic colors, et cetera. It’s either black or white.