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Campus ID provider Blackboard introduces mass-notification, video surveillance products

Monday, June 2, 2008

By Andy Williams, Contributing Editor

On-campus student safety is an even greater priority for many colleges and universities today. Blackboard, one of the largest campus ID systems providers, has noticed this trend and rolled out two new programs with student safety in mind.

The first program, Blackboard Connect, enables a campus administrator to log into just one system to send mass-notification alerts to the entire campus. The second, Blackboard Video Surveillance, enables the administrator to view live or recorded videos of multiple locations at once. Finally, the system will let administrators check transactions and finances at all the college’s various facilities.

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