SLATE Community

• Production LMS: Blackboard Learning System Enterprise License
• Current Version: 6.3
• Additional LMS Products: Blackboard Content System, Blackboard Community System
• Building Blocks in use: Wimba Voice Tools, Learning Objects Campus Pack, Discussion Grader, Power User Enrollment, My Organizations Plus, UNCG eReserves Manager
• Building Blocks developed: Appointments
• Campus ERP: Other
• Other LMS's Deployed: None
• ASP Hosted: No
• Time Frame for Next Upgrade: Summer 2008 to version 8.0

The history of the University of Chicago begins in 1890 and includes an oil magnate, retail giant, and 74 Nobel Prize winners. The University of Chicago is bigger than you may think. Besides the undergraduate College, the four graduate divisions, and the six professional schools, there are libraries, laboratories, museums, clinics, and other institutions; a school; a continuing-studies program; and an academic press. There are programs on the Hyde Park campus and programs around the world.

More than 2,100 full-time academic staff teach or conduct research at the University. There are a total of 12,830 enrolled students, including 3,996 in the undergraduate College. There are 375 nondegree students on the Quads, then there are 219 students enrolled at the Graduate School of Business campuses in Barcelona and Singapore.

Currently running the Blackboard Academic Suite version 6.3.1.424, over 1000 courses were delivered to over 10,000 students, both graduate and undergraduate across nearly all divisions and schools during each quarter of the past academic year. Named after the Web server that ran the pilot system in 1999, Chalk - as it is known on campus - started as a study of the expanding suite of Web-based tools for teaching and learning. Since then, the project has grown into a new service for UChicago faculty who want to take advantage of the latest integrated Web tools in their classes.

• Institution Categrory: 4-year, graduate
• Term: quarter
• Number of Active Courses per Term: 1000+
• Number of Online Courses: 0
• Number of Faculty: 1600
• Number of Students: 12000
• Group, Organization, Association Memberships: Committee on Institutional Cooperation Learning Technology Group (CIC), National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE), IEEE, Ivy+ Academic Computing Directors Group, Masie Learning Consortium, EDUCAUSE