Last week, I did quick Jing recordings about Moodle and Sakai. Today, I made a recording of Blackboard to show what it looks like to log in and create some items, and then I go into a fleshed out course to show what the finished product could look like. I got this account by going to Blackboard.com and requesting a Preview Account.
I was prepared to dislike Blackboard, mainly because of what I've heard about their corporate culture, but I have to admit that I like the look of Blackboard. The interface made sense to me, seemed very flexible, and looks polished compared to Moodle and Sakai. I don't think that Blackboard has the advanced controls that ANGEL has (for example, releasing content on a particular date or based on their completion of other items), but the majority of our faculty don't use those features. Then again, the ones who do rely on them pretty heavily.
Now that Blackboard owns ANGEL, there is nothing to stop them from taking the best of both products, so those missing features may exist by the time we would move to Blackboard.
I was prepared to dislike Blackboard, mainly because of what I've heard about their corporate culture, but I have to admit that I like the look of Blackboard. The interface made sense to me, seemed very flexible, and looks polished compared to Moodle and Sakai. I don't think that Blackboard has the advanced controls that ANGEL has (for example, releasing content on a particular date or based on their completion of other items), but the majority of our faculty don't use those features. Then again, the ones who do rely on them pretty heavily.
Now that Blackboard owns ANGEL, there is nothing to stop them from taking the best of both products, so those missing features may exist by the time we would move to Blackboard.
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