HarvestRoad Hive® System Extension for Blackboard Learning System provides comprehensive content management, distributed repositories (bureaus), workflow engine, notification management, metadata management and copyright control to Blackboard.

Content can be published via Blackboard course pages directly to the repository, including hyperlinked content in SmartText areas. Single source content in HarvestRoad Hive® can be used in any number of Blackboard courses without duplication. Sophisticated version control and linking capabilities are also available to the Blackboard user.

Blackboard System Extension is available as a separate module that is installed on the Blackboard system as a System Extension (Building Block).

Pachyderm 2.0 is currently in release as a server-hosted, browser-based authoring platform running on servers provided by the New Media Consortium to its membership. The server versions of Pachyderm 2.0, which are being built for Windows, Linux, and OS X servers, will be freely available for download from SourceForge in the first quarter of 2006 when Pachyderm is released in open-source. The availability of the server package downloads will be announced broadly at that time.