RPP #133: Blackboard Ultra: Interview with Mark Strassman

• Interview with Mark Strassman, Senior Vice President, Industry and Product Management, Blackboard Inc.
• Mark Strassman oversees the company's product and integrated
  
  portfolio strategy to ensure Blackboard continues to build solutions that serve institutions, administrators, educators and students. 
• We discuss the new Blackboard Ultra:
• What are Core, Essentials, Insight, Student Retention?
• What is the update roadmap for hosted systems?
• Versions of Ultra SaaS, multi-tenant, single-tenant
• New web REST API
• Is Ultra completely adaptive/responsive? 
• New Bb Student app
• Ultra workflows subset for Community
• Mobile compatibility; adaptive design
• Future of Mosaic
• "Persona Apps" 
• New Collaborate Ultra
• Links
• Blackboard Inc.
• Bb Student App
• What's the Ultra Experience for Bb Collaborate?
• EdTech Connection
• Podsafe Music Selection
• Concerto No. 2 in G Minor (Summer) by the American Baroque Orchestra. Purchase the full CD: The Four Seasons by Vivaldi 
• Duration: 35:26