CourseFeed Application Brings Blackboard to Facebook

Back in September I suggested that someone should develop an application similar to Blackboard for Facebook. When attending the Graphing Social Patterns conference a few weeks ago, one of my readers, Jayson Ahlstrom approached me and told me that his company would soon be releasing a version of Blackboard on the Facebook platform.

Yesterday afternoon I had the opportunity to demo the product and it is amazing! ClassTop, an official partner of Blackboard®, has developed an application that literally takes 95% of Blackboard’s functionality and ports it into Facebook. If you have been out of school for more than a few years chances are you didn’t get to interact with Blackboard. Currently, Blackboard is a relatively ubiquitous product within universities across the country.

The new CourseFeed application provides users with a newsfeed of everything that is going on in their courses. Additionally, CourseFeed is not limited to the invite limits of the Facebook platform since CourseFeed is directly tied into the Blackboard platform and can directly email users. I think this application has serious potential and when I speak of Facebook’s golden application, this could very well be it. This application literally imports all of your Blackboard content directly into the platform.

Students already login to Blackboard daily but they don’t have a significant interaction with it. If you add it to the Facebook platform, I have a feeling things will change. The developers of CourseFeed agree. The real test now is to see if their beta tests go well. Currently, Blackboard functionality is only at a few test schools but they are preparing to opening it up to all schools in the near future. If you want to see what functionality is currently provided at your school, go check out the CourseFeed application.

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Wow… this is one of the first smart things i've seen come from the FB platform.

Comment by Justin Thorp — October 25, 2007 @ 7:50 am
Wow… this is one of the first smart things i’ve seen come from the FB platform.

Comment by Justin Thorp — October 25, 2007 @ 11:50 am
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[...] But today, I logged in to Facebook to find a message sending me to Coursefeed – an application that connects Blackboard with Facebook, built by our friends at ClassTop. I’m trying this out, but reading the messages in the [...]

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hey i study at ITESM (Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Studios Superiores de Monterrey) in Monterrey, Nuevo LeÃ³n, Mexico, this app do not work with all the cuorces, when i added it 2 my facebook only 4 cources were displayed(im not taking them).

Comment by Rafael Garcia — October 28, 2007 @ 11:01 pm
[...] going to gain millions of users just because it’s so useful. This application (along with the CourseFeed application) may be one of the most useful applications I have seen on Facebook to date. Is it the [...]

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Wow… this is one of the first smart things i've seen come from the FB platform.

Comment by Justin Thorp — October 25, 2007 @ 7:50 am

Wow… this is one of the first smart things i’ve seen come from the FB platform.

Comment by Justin Thorp — October 25, 2007 @ 11:50 am

[...] [via allfacebook] Link to This Post: [...]

Pingback by CourseFeed’s Blackboard App for Facebook — October 25, 2007 @ 4:39 pm

[...] But today, I logged in to Facebook to find a message sending me to Coursefeed – an application that connects Blackboard with Facebook, built by our friends at ClassTop. I’m trying this out, but reading the messages in the [...]

Pingback by E@T News » Coursefeed - Blackboard + Facebook — October 26, 2007 @ 2:05 pm

[...] [via allfacebook] [...]

Pingback by CourseFeedâ€™s Blackboard App for Facebook at Geekstr — October 26, 2007 @ 6:58 pm

hey i study at ITESM (Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Studios Superiores de Monterrey) in Monterrey, Nuevo LeÃ³n, Mexico, this app do not work with all the cuorces, when i added it 2 my facebook only 4 cources were displayed(im not taking them).

Comment by Rafael Garcia — October 28, 2007 @ 11:01 pm

[...] going to gain millions of users just because it’s so useful. This application (along with the CourseFeed application) may be one of the most useful applications I have seen on Facebook to date. Is it the [...]

Pingback by Restaurant Reviews on Facebook - The Unofficial Facebook Blog — November 2, 2007 @ 5:33 pm

Pingback by Jacob Madison » Blog Archive » Restaurant reviews on Facebook — November 5, 2007 @ 4:41 pm

[...] marked the launch of Coursefeed, which provided integration with Blackboard and a direct interface within Facebook. The application [...]

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testing

Comment by Steve Garbrah — May 26, 2009 @ 10:02 pm