Blackboard's current owner, Providence Equity Partners, bought it in 2011 for $1.64 billion, and Blackboard was shopped (but not sold) in 2015 for about $3 billion.Sep 14, 2021
In March 2019 Blackboard announced that Transact was to be spun off, having been acquired by Reverence Capital Partners.
Anthology, a relatively new higher education software and services company, is acquiring Blackboard, long one of the most prominent companies in the educational technology space.Sep 13, 2021
The purpose of this deal is a revenue growth opportunity driven by cross-selling, international growth, and the opportunities to combine products and create new value, particularly at the data level. Once the deal closes, Blackboard will no longer exist as a standalone EdTech company.Sep 13, 2021
About Anthology The full suite covers admission and enrollment management; student success and retention; institutional and learning effectiveness; alumni and advancement; and enterprise applications and infrastructure, offering solutions to the challenges facing campuses today.Oct 25, 2021
At Anthology, we collaborate with you to make sure our inventive solutions, global higher education expertise and curated selection of industry-leading products advance your mission, your goals and your success. Anthology strives to support your institution today while being a step ahead of the needs of tomorrow.
These days, most chalkboards are sold to restaurants, not to schools. The link between whiteboards and digital culture helped many U.S. schools adopt smartboards. By 2014, 60 percent of K-12 classrooms had interactive whiteboards, a figure that's expected to increase to 73 percent by 2019.Oct 13, 2016
Who owns blackboard canvas?TypePrivateProductsCanvas, Catalog, Studio, Portfolium, MasteryConnect, Videri, CASE Benchmarks and Item Bank, Navigate Item Bank, Academic Benchmarks, Certify, DataConnectRevenue$209.5 million (2018)Number of employees1,291 (2019)ParentThoma Bravo
Blackboard reinvented how resources in higher education are distributed and consumed and quickly became a ubiquitous tool in American education. We raised $100 million in capital, took the company public in 2004 and later sold it for $1.6 billion.Aug 4, 2016
Moodle has a well designed architecture, so its faster as compared to Blackboard, where students have faced problems while loading pages. Moodle does not allow you as a student to work offline but Blackboard lets you complete your courses and activities offline.Oct 16, 2017