Content Comparison

Blackboard learning management software makes class content available to students via the Internet. Blackboard provides students and instructors with interactive web 2.0 technologies such as blogs and wikis. The Blackboard course management platform also supports video and audio from a variety of web sources including podcasts and v-casts. The Blackboard course management system uses all of these tools to enhance learning, interaction, and collaboration.

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Blackboard Collaborate Ultra is a real-time video conferencing tool that lets you add files, share applications, and use a virtual whiteboard to interact.

Collaborate with the Ultra experience opens right in your browser, so you don't have to install any software to join a session.

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Blackboard Ally is a tool that helps enhance the usability and accessibility of course documents. 

Ally's two main functions are to:

• Evaluate documents that are uploaded to Blackboard for accessibility compliance and lead instructors through the steps needed to improve the accessibility of the document.
• Provide students with multiple formats of documents to select the one that best fits their unique needs.

Anyone in the Syracuse University community can create their own website with Expressions. Each user can customize their WordPress site to express themselves and create an online presence.

The Turnitin internet-based plagiarism-detection service checks the originality of student submitted essays. Turnitin can be used to detect plagiarism as well as spelling and use of grammar.  Instructors can leave a voice comment with each submitted assignment. Students and instructors can use Turnitin within the Blackboard platform. Turnitin can be access from the building block in Blackboard.

Lynda.com is a leading online learning company that helps anyone learn business, technology and creative skills to achieve personal and professional goals. Members have unlimited access to the lynda.com video library of more than 3,600 engaging, top-quality courses, including 275,000 tutorials taught by recognized industry experts.

LinkedInLearning has now partnered with Lynda.com.

The same, high-quality Lynda content, now more engaging and social

• More relevant recommendations informed by insights from the LinkedIn network of 575M+ professionals
• All your learning history, account info and certifications will be waiting for you at LinkedIn Learning
• Learning delivered through instructional videos on any device, on and offline at your convenience

All active students, faculty and staff will have full member privilegesExperience the benefits of LinkedIn Learning. LinkedIn Learning provides access to more than 13,000 high quality on-demand courses. And you’ll get personalized course recommendations based on unique, data-driven insights from millions of professionals on the worldwide LinkedIn network.

Active faculty, staff, and students can log into LinkedIn learning by visiting linkedinlearning.syr.edu and logging in with their NetID and password managed at netid.syr.edu. Active users visiting LinkedIn Learning for the first time should simply follow the instructions on the screen to create your account. 

More information, including a full user's guide provided by LinkedIn Learning, can be found on the LinkedIn Learning at Syracuse University home page.

Read&Write Gold helps all individuals succeed regardless of ability or learning style.  Users can access the reading, writing, studying, and research tools they need at school, home, or work. Having text read aloud with dual color highlighting, along with additional support tools, helps every learner gain confidence and work independently at their own pace.

Syracuse University maintains a site license for TextHelp Read&Write Gold for PC and Mac and iReadWrite for iPad. The software will soon be installed on the computers in the ITS public computer labs and can now be installed on users’ University- and individually-owned computers.

Qualtrics provides a unique cloud based research/survey tool licensed for all current SU faculty, Students and Staff.

Qualtrics is one of the very few survey providers that gives unlimited support to all users.

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Note: Qualtrics is licensed for all current SU faculty, Students and Staff. Login is achieved through a secure process in which your credentials are never given to Qualtrics.