Tag: BLACKBOARD

If you've been to college sometime in the past decade, you might have run up against Blackboard. It's an online assignment system that students generally dread logging into, because it usually means new work or more brown-nosing questions from that showoff in your class. That's not Blackboard's fault, though. To show they want to make things easier on their user base, the students, Blackboard is ...

Blackboard Inc., "leading provider of enterprise technology to the education community," has given their support to open-source and homegrown course management software that might infringe on a patent they received last year. In their press release the company vows to "never assert its issued or pending course management software patents against open source software or home-grown course management ...