blackboard/cardsmith

by Mrs. Abbie Kuhic V 10 min read

What is CardSmith and how does it work?

Aug 07, 2014 · WASHINGTON, Aug. 7, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Blackboard has acquired CardSmith, the industry's leading cloud provider of campus card solutions and turn-key card program management services, Blackboard...

What is a Blackboard Transact card?

Aug 06, 2014 · Fast-forward ten years, and the founders of CardSmith will now reportedly join the Blackboard team following their company’s acquisition. Since its inception, CardSmith was intent on building a campus card offering that broke barriers in the traditional client-hosted, hardware-centric industry.

What is the history of Blackboard?

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Who is the CEO of Blackboard?

Aug 07, 2014 · Blackboard Acquires CardSmith Pairing Creates Most Comprehensive Set of Student ID Deployment Options in the Market WASHINGTON, Aug. 7, 2014 / PRNewswire / -- Blackboard has acquired CardSmith, the industry's leading cloud provider of campus card solutions and turn-key card program management services, Blackboard announced today.

Flow from ideas to action

Immediately after brainstorming the team can move to organizing their ideas or go straight to creating a plan. The building blocks are in place to craft the best visual framework for the work at hand. That might be a Kanban board, a scrum board, a monthly or quarterly plan, or a project overview board.

Collaborate from anywhere, anytime

Everyone on the team can share ideas, anytime from anywhere in the world with a tool that is instantly familiar. With real-time collaboration, all changes are immediately seen by the team.

Finally, a tool as nimble as your team

We’ve translated the best of sticky notes – their familiarity, immediacy, versatility – to an online environment. Your team no longer needs to waste time wrestling with a cumbersome tool, so they can focus on the work that they want to do.

Quickly move from the big picture to the fine details

Zoom out to get an overview. Capture at a glance what you need to know. Open a card to get the specifics. Change from freeform view to grid view. Cardsmith works the way you think.

Add in complexity only as needed

Cards are at the heart of Cardsmith. Customize cards to track what your team cares about: add text, lists, images, and links to any card. You can use color and icons to communicate status or excitement about an idea or issue.

All about agile

We enthusiastically support Kanban, Scrum, Scrumban, Scaled Agile and other processes that help teams get more done faster, better, easier. To find out more, check out this post on How to build a Kanban or Scrum board.

Who is Blackboard LLC?

Blackboard LLC. Blackboard LLC. was founded in 1997 by Michael Chasen and Matthew Pittinsky and began as a consulting firm contracting to the non-profit IMS Global Learning Consortium developing a prototype for online learning and thinking through online learning standardization.

Who is the Chief Financial Officer of Blackboard?

In 2019, Blackboard Inc., announced that Edwin Scholte will be appointed Chief Financial Officer (CFO).

What is Blackboard Analytics?

The Blackboard Analytics platform is a system for data warehousing and analysis, with applications for educational institutions to analyze student numbers, class scheduling, and financial information.

How much did Blackboard spend on acquisitions?

Between 2006 and 2012, the company spent more than $500 million on acquisitions.

When did Blackboard merge with CourseInfo?

Blackboard Inc. In 1998, after Cane met Chasen at a conference on adaptive learning, Gilfus and Cane decided to merge CourseInfo LLC. with Chasen and Pittinky's Blackboard LLC. company in order to raise money and scale the business. The combined company became a corporation known as Blackboard Inc. They renamed the CourseInfo platform built by ...

What percentage of colleges use blackboard?

Seventy-five percent of US colleges and universities and more than half of K–12 districts in the United States use its products and services, and 80 percent of the world's top academic institutions reportedly use Blackboard tools, according to Times Higher Education Reputation Ranking.

What is Blackboard's patent?

The patent established Blackboard's claims to the concept of connecting together web-based tools to create an interconnected university-wide course management system. The firm announced the patent on July 26, 2006, and on the same day it filed a patent infringement lawsuit against rival education software company Desire2Learn Inc. According to news reports, the awarding of the patent and the lawsuit against Desire2Learn led to concerns about patentability in the electronic learning community.