You should ask your account manager for the full legal definition, but as I recall:
You should be allowed to join the BBDN for free as an educational institution if you have an enterprise license - i.e. have more than just Blackboard Basic - makes sense as you can't install building blocks on a basic server anyway. That allows you to request a developer license so that you can set up a complete test environment (with community and content system). This is limited to something like 40 users and 40 courses if I recall and cannot be used as a backup for production.
You also then get a "developer" view of Behind the Blackboard, which might make it easier to find the latest documentation or SDK, though to be honest it is all on edugarage now!
HTH
Malcolm.
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Dr Malcolm Murray
Learning Technologies Team Leader - IT Service
Honorary Fellow - School of Education
Durham University
-----Original Message-----
From: Blackboard/Courseinfo userslist [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Vickie Pring
Sent: 17 March 2011 09:37
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Subject: Developer license questions
Hi,
I was just wondering if anyone could tell me what the developer license for Blackboard entails.
Are you able to develop building blocks for your system without one, or is it just for access to the documentation?
Do educational institutes get one for free?
Any guidance would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Vickie
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