MeetingOne Aims To Help Integrate Meetings into Blackboard Courses
MeetingOne has
launched a new version of a product that will let
instructors and teaching assistants integrate meetings into existing Blackboard
Learn courses.
MeetingOne's
Adobe Connect
integration for Blackboard will allow instructors and course
creators to easily
add Web meetings to course offerings that are part of Blackboard’s learning environment and course management system with
a single
sign-on.
This latest Blackboard Building Block will
enable educational
institutions and government agencies to offer the Web meeting experience
with
Adobe Connect server environments from within Blackboard Learn 9.1
environments.
Among the product's new features, it will allow instructors and
course
creators to:
- Create an Adobe Connect room for an existing or
future
Blackboard course;
- Choose a preferred type of audio, be it VoIP or
telephone
and VoIP;
- Create a module within the Blackboard dashboard
page to
help users track both today's and future meetings; and
- Allow instructors and users to
review
meeting information, reports and recordings.
With the new Building Block, students will be able to quickly see
and
access upcoming meetings from Blackboard and review previous meetings
that have
been recorded.
The
cost of the
new Building Block is $5,000 for a 1-year license, which includes
ongoing
support. The license subscription can be renewed annually
Installation
and
set-up support is $2,000 and enhancement updates will be available. All
that is
required of the user to perform the installation is available in a 4- to
5-page
manual.
About the Author
Michael Hart is a Los Angeles-based freelance writer and the former executive editor of THE Journal.