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Blackboard Mass (Now a part of Finalsite)

Blackboard Mass

Product Details

Overview
Blackboard Mass allows you to send messages to your audience through the devices and channels of their preference.  You can send an emergency notification, outreach, attendance messages or even a survey and the platform will make sure that it is seen by your students parents or guardians by delivering the message in a format that will actually reach them. Create once, publish everywhere! Communication is the foundation of effective parent and community engagement. 

Features
Blackboard Mass Notifications allows you to reach your stakeholders across all your communication channels simultaneously. This kind of simplified messaging is critical for emergencies and necessary for everyday updates.

Create one message, publish it everywhere 
Use our intuitive interface to get your message out across all communication channels, including text, voice, email, mobile app, website, and social media, with the push of a button.

Integrate with your other tools
Mass Notifications integrates with other Blackboard Community Engagement products, as well as your SIS, HR, cafeteria, transportation, library and other systems.

Target and personalize messages
Improve your delivery rates by allowing parents to set their own delivery preferences. Target your messages to the right audience by using data-based queries, geofencing, language translation, and other filters.

Rely on proven technology
Mass Notifications gives you 99.999% uptime and is backed by the industry leader in hosting, Amazon Web Services.

Expand your communications strategy
Your notification system can be used for more than just crisis response. Get more from your communications by also sending daily attendance updates, surveys, grades, balances, and more.

Make more informed decisions
Advanced reporting gives you the ability to see how schools are interacting with their audiences. You’ll have access to delivery and usage data, opt-out preference reports, and message history.

Send custom newsletters
Our partnership and integration with Smore allows you to design and send beautiful newsletters from inside your notification system

Support Options
  • Email
  • Phone
  • Web
Districts
This list is compiled annually through our web surveys, internet research, and phone interviews with California school districts.

School Districts in California that use Blackboard*

Videos

Blackboard Mass Notifications
Sending a Message in Blackboard Mass Notifications
Using Mass Notifications to share COVID information
Detailed reporting in Mass Notifications with Message Tracking
Sending a message in Blackboard Connect