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S 8th December 2000 URL:http://www.chest.ac.uk/ S
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a) CHEST Special Offer for Blackboard
a) CHEST Special Offer for Blackboard
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During the last few weeks we have asked CHEST sites to participate in a
survey regarding possible future use of a Virtual Learning Environment
or VLE. We have received a number of responses indicating that this is a
product of interest to the educational sector in the UK & Ireland.
Based on the feedback from that survey we are pleased to announce a
CHEST Special Offer for all educational institutions.
This offer is for the Blackboard Learning Environment, which has already
been licensed by more than 30 educational institutions in the UK and
Ireland.
Blackboard offers its platforms in three versions:
- Blackboard 5 Level One, the Virtual Learning Environment
- Blackboard 5 Level Two, the Virtual Learning Environment including an
Education Portal
- Blackboard 5 Level Three, the Virtual Learning Environment including
an Education Portal and API's for integration to back-office
applications plus end-user authentication
The normal annually renewable license fee including basic support for
one institution (no limit on the number of courses or users) is
$ 5,000 (£3570) per year for Level One, $ 25,000 (£17,850) per year for
Level Two and
$ 50,000 (£35,700) per year for Level Three (which also requires
integration services).
This special offer for Levels 1 and 2 only means that in return for a
three-year commitment
(until December 31 2003) the licence fee for the first year is
discounted 20 % and for years two and three by 10 % each. The license
fees will be invoiced annually in December for the following year and
the pricing payable in sterling will be:
Level 1 Level 2
Year 1 £2,856 £14,280
Year 2/3 £3,213 £16,065
VAT will be added to the above charges at the prevailing rate.
In additiuon Blackboard offers institutions that licence before January
31 2001 a free one-day train-the-trainer course for two people at a
training event in the UK sometime mid February 2001. This would normally
cost $1,500.
The CHEST special offer applies to Level One and Level Two only.
Further information on the functionality of the product, how to order,
the necessary Hardware, the details of the training event as well as the
terms for existing customers of Blackboard to benefit from this offer
will be posted to the CHEST website early next week.
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