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Blackboard and Windows 2000: An ELearning Solution for Colleges and Universities

Overview ELearning is helping colleges and universities reach more students than ever before and overcome educational and operational challenges. This white paper discusses about Blackboard 5.5 which is running on Windows 2000 with Microsoft SQL Server 2000 as a relational database offers colleges and universities a scalable and robust eLearning solution that can be customized to meet their needs. Blackboard offers an intuitive and easy-to-user course management system, offering course and content authoring tools, an assessment engine and modular architecture optimized to run on Windows 2000.

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Publisher	Microsoft	File Format	HTML
Date Published	November 2001	Downloads	2
Format	White Papers
Topics	Online - Distance Education, Windows NT - 2000 - 2003

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