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Umm Al-Qura University selects
Blackboard educational solution
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Leading institution in the Middle East switches to Blackboard
Learn to deliver a more connected and engaging learning
environment for faculty and students.
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lackboard, a leading education
technology company for teaching,
learning and student engagement,
has announced that Umm Al-Qura University
(UQU) has selected its leading learning
management system, Blackboard Learn, to
replace its legacy system. making it difficult for us to engage in
endeavours such as joint training, knowledge
transfer and exchange of e-learning
resources.” said Dr Ahmed Hameed,
Vice Deanship of E-Learning and
Distance Education for Development and
Entrepreneurship at Umm Al-Qura University.
Umm Al-Qura University is one of the
largest public Islamic universities in Saudi
Arabia, serving over 100,000 students
across 35 colleges. “Since switching to Blackboard, we have
been able to deliver a more connected and
engaging learning environment for our
faculty and learners. We have also seen a
reduction in costs with absolutely no impact
on the quality of education we provide.”
“We are honoured that Umm Al-Qura
University decided to switch to Blackboard
Learn to deliver a more connected, engaging
and integrated learning environment across
all of its colleges,” said Robert Speed, Vice
President of the Middle East and Africa
at Blackboard. “Our powerful LMS is more
equipped to help the university deliver a
superior teaching and learning experience
for its faculty and students. We have a strong
presence in Saudi Arabia and are committed
to working with our partner on the ground to
help our clients deliver on their mission.”
collaborative learning environment,
SafeAssign, an originality-checker, and
on-the-go access to coursework and
other educational information through
Blackboard’s mobile solutions.
To ensure a seamless transition, Blackboard
is providing training on efficient content
migration to learn from the university’s
old system. n
The university is also leveraging Blackboard
Collaborate, a simple and reliable online
Blackboard Learn will help the university
achieve Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030 and the
National Transformation Program (NTP),
which sets out an ambitious roadmap for
education reform. Some of the key benefits
of Learn include a connected experience
across devices, ease of content creation
and management and a range of digital
assessment and social learning tools.
“We felt that our old system left us out of
sync with many of our peer institutions
across Saudi Arabia and around the world,
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