The Blackboard Beyond Initiative™ is focused on researching, developing and delivering innovative, centrally-hosted web properties and services that connect Blackboard users and make the reach of the Blackboard community useful to faculty and students in their everyday teaching and learning.
Built on the principles of Web 2.0, Blackboard Beyond will deliver rich, user-driven tools to:
* Foster Student Centered Learning
* Facilitate Social Networking
* Enable Lifelong Learning
* Benchmark Outcomes
* Extend the Platform
BEYOND PROPERTIES AND SERVICES
Blackboard SyncTM is a safe and secure student engagement tool for Facebook that keeps students continually connected to their academic studies and promotes online social learning opportunities.
Scholar®, is a free social bookmarking and academic resource sharing service, customized for education, and integrated with all of Blackboard Learning System products. Scholar enables students and faculty to store and classify their web resources, and then share them with other scholars and leverage expertise across institutions, across the globe.
>>See Scholar for yourself at scholar.com 
SafeAssignTM is a plagiarism prevention service by Blackboard that is included as part of the Blackboard enterprise platform at no additional cost. [>>More About SafeAssign]
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