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Why Blackboard?
Trusted Proven Reliable
82 of the largest U.S. school
districts rely on Blackboard
1 out of 2 U.S. school
districts use Blackboard
98% renewal rate
Award-winning design team
Recognized by national &
state-level trade organizations
Industry leader in digital
accessibility
99.999% Uptime –
AWS infrastructure
High Performing – AWS CloudFront
Content Delivery Network
Advanced DDoS Protection –
upgraded to AWS Shield
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Transforming Communications – Creating Connections
Engage your Community
Delight your Staff
Ensure Access for All
Promote Penn Hills School District
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Promote Penn Hills School District
Modern Navigation Options and Easier Publishing Options
Rotating Photos or Streaming Videos by School Site
Highlight Announcements & Key Services “above the fold”
Update News and Headlines across all sites or for specific schools
Calendars for the district, schools, classes, clubs, & teams
Integrate Social Media Feeds
Highlight District Achievements
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Promote Penn Hills School District
Choose from over 18 award-winning modern web designs
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Engage your Community
With the right message, to the right person, at the right time, in the desired format
Websites Mobile Apps Mass Notifications
Create Once Publish Everywhere – Reach All Your Communications Channels Instantly
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District-branded App provides a great mobile experience for
your entire community
All news, messages, and information at your fingertips
Promote and share lunch menus, club and team updates,
and all school resources
Searchable staff directories to support parent connections
Follow specific schools, topic areas, and calendars
Automatically translate all content into over 110 languages
Engage your Community
Deliver an immersive, personalized mobile experience
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Delight your Staff
Efficiently and easily create engaging messages
Reach all communications
channels—with one click
Mobile Sender App – message
anywhere at anytime
Create school-branded templates
Personalize messages with
intelligent integration
Automatically translate into over
110 languages
Rich Text Formatting enables
engaging message content
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Ensure Access for All
Supporting all device and language needs
Be Seen on Every Device
Responsive web design with 5-
breakpoints ensures a great experience
on all devices
Reach and Inform your Whole Community
Instantly translate all web and mobile app content
into over 110 languages
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Ensure Access for All
Ally for Website Accessibility
Continuously Monitor
Website Accessibility
Automatically analyze and score
web content against key areas of
the WCAG 2.1 AA standard
Support Continuous
Improvement
Provide content editors with real-
time guidance to self-correct
website content
Automatically Improve Content
Accessibility
Providing web content in alternative
formats supports improved
accessibility and different learning
preferences
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$14,555
One Time Fees
TOOLS, TRAINING, AND SUPPORT
• Secure AWS hosting
• Web Community Manager
• Mass Notifications
• Mobile Communications App
• Ally for Web Community Manager
• MyWay Ultra Template
• Site Activation & Secure LDAP
• Implementation and Integration
• Staff Training
• 24x7 Technical Support
• Client Success Manager
• Blackboard Learning Center
Pine Hills School District – Investment Proposal
1/1/23 7/1/23 7/1/24 7/1/25
$14,653
Annual Fees
$14,653
Annual Fees
$14,653
Annual Fees
Editor's Notes
When we think about considerations for the evolving landscape, we see 4 major groupings of interconnected capabilities that are required:
Institutions need a strong retention and engagement strategy to help students persist in their courses
An effective teaching and learning approach, one that leverages blended learning models
A strong focus on results measurement and analytics to support real-time decision making and improvement
And a set of integrated technologies, based in the cloud to provide flexibility and adaptivity to the new normal
These capabilities need to be underpinned by tools that help institutions advance learning. Here is just a sample list of what we believe institutions should consider and these are certainly areas that we are focused on going forward
When we think about considerations for the evolving landscape, we see 4 major groupings of interconnected capabilities that are required:
Institutions need a strong retention and engagement strategy to help students persist in their courses
An effective teaching and learning approach, one that leverages blended learning models
A strong focus on results measurement and analytics to support real-time decision making and improvement
And a set of integrated technologies, based in the cloud to provide flexibility and adaptivity to the new normal
These capabilities need to be underpinned by tools that help institutions advance learning. Here is just a sample list of what we believe institutions should consider and these are certainly areas that we are focused on going forward
