A Year to Remember: Anthology’s 2024 Highlights
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At Anthology, the countdown to 2025 is underway! A new year of innovation and excitement awaits, but we can’t close out the year-end without a quick look back at some of our biggest innovations, integrations and industry recognitions in 2024. We couldn’t have done it without you – our valued customers. Your contributions to the idea exchange, office hours, focus groups, customer success stories, event presentations, analyst conversations and so much more were instrumental in making 2024 an impactful year for Anthology. Thank you for your partnership in helping us build industry-leading solutions that pave the future of Higher Education Technology. Let’s start the top 10 count down for Anthology’s 2024:
10. Anthology launches a new vision, mission and brand. Power of Together at Anthology Together 2024 and emphasizes our award-winning Blackboard® (LMS), Anthology® Student (SIS/ERP), and Anthology® Reach (CRM) solutions.
9. Anthology announced Blackboard secured a top placement in the inaugural Tambellini StarChart™ 2024 for Learning Management Systems (LMS). Blackboard was rated as a Commander, a distinction reserved for market leaders with highly innovative and user-focused designs that push the boundaries of technology and usability to new heights.
8. Anthology hits the official one-year mark of Blackboard’s AI Design Assistant, and the lessons learned from being the first LMS provider to deliver integrated AI capabilities for instructors and designers are shared with the industry here: Twelve Months of the AI Design Assistant.
7. Anthology® Student, our fully cloud-based student information system (SIS), ranked as a Commander in the Tambellini StarChart™: 2024 Student Systems, and Anthology Student was rated the most innovative full-market, generally available solution for 2024. As a complete SIS + ERP solution, Anthology ranked as a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: North America Higher Education SaaS and Cloud-Enabled ERP Applications 2024. Document # US51810624.
6. Anthology® Reach now natively integrates with Blackboard and Anthology® Engage to provide advisors with a holistic view of student achievement through academic engagement and co-curricular involvement insights directly available in the advisor’s workspace and includes an exclusive AI-powered student engagement scoring model.
5. Anthology champions Digital Accessibility and Inclusion with our biggest Global Accessibility Awareness Month event ever! Events included a joint webinar between Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Anthology on Accessibility and Inclusivity in Technology, promotional access to our Accessibility training course for faculty and friends, and participation in Educause’s Demo Day on Accessibility. But we don’t stop there, Anthology publicly emphasizes our commitment to accessibility and inclusive design.
4. Anthology® Engage powers the student experience of top institutions in 2025 College Rankings. In the Wall Street Journal’s Top 10 U.S. Colleges for Student Experience, six of these top-ranked schools—including the top four—rely on Anthology® Engage to power their student engagement strategies. In the 2025 WSJ/College Pulse Best Colleges Rankings, six of the top 10 public institutions and five of the top public and private institutions in this ranking use Anthology® Engage to support their students' co-curricular engagement and growth.
3. As institutions seek to use data, analytics, and AI to help improve efficiency and promote student success, Anthology® Illuminate continues to invest in aligning the data sets from Blackboard®, Anthology® Student and Anthology® Reach to simplify access to those data-driven insights at an institution. These efforts resulted in Anthology ranking as a Commander in the Tambellini StarChart™: 2024 Student Analytics Oct 2024 Report.
2. Anthology posts a record number of success stories including an amazing new partnership with TETFund as they expand higher education access in Nigeria with Blackboard®, University of Advancing Technology shared the benefits of migrating to the cloud with Anthology® Student, Tuoro University transformed the application experience with Anthology® Reach, University of Northampton leveraged Anthology® Illuminate to assess the interrelationship between course design and student interaction, and so many more on Anthology.com.
1. Anthology Services announced that we are improving the student experience across our Help Desk, OneStop, Enrollment and Marketing services with AI-Enabled Enrollment and Retention Services, Powered by AWS. The Anthology Services team has been helping institutions increase enrollment, improve student retention and so much more!
Happy New Year! Let’s kick off the new year looking ahead. Anthology has announced a new date and location for Anthology Together 2025. Anthology Together is now July 14-16, 2025, at the Fontainebleau Las Vegas. Join us at the event in Las Vegas, Nevada to learn about all the latest innovation, integration and industry recognition in 2025.
May the new year bring peace and prosperity for you, your family and your institution. May your faculty, staff, instructors and students all be filled with a bright, healthy, and promising future. Thank you again for being a partner with Anthology on this amazing journey to revolutionize Higher Education Technology for the future!
Carisa Stringer
Vice President of Product Marketing
Anthology
10. Anthology launches a new vision, mission and brand. Power of Together at Anthology Together 2024 and emphasizes our award-winning Blackboard® (LMS), Anthology® Student (SIS/ERP), and Anthology® Reach (CRM) solutions.
9. Anthology announced Blackboard secured a top placement in the inaugural Tambellini StarChart™ 2024 for Learning Management Systems (LMS). Blackboard was rated as a Commander, a distinction reserved for market leaders with highly innovative and user-focused designs that push the boundaries of technology and usability to new heights.
8. Anthology hits the official one-year mark of Blackboard’s AI Design Assistant, and the lessons learned from being the first LMS provider to deliver integrated AI capabilities for instructors and designers are shared with the industry here: Twelve Months of the AI Design Assistant.
7. Anthology® Student, our fully cloud-based student information system (SIS), ranked as a Commander in the Tambellini StarChart™: 2024 Student Systems, and Anthology Student was rated the most innovative full-market, generally available solution for 2024. As a complete SIS + ERP solution, Anthology ranked as a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: North America Higher Education SaaS and Cloud-Enabled ERP Applications 2024. Document # US51810624.
6. Anthology® Reach now natively integrates with Blackboard and Anthology® Engage to provide advisors with a holistic view of student achievement through academic engagement and co-curricular involvement insights directly available in the advisor’s workspace and includes an exclusive AI-powered student engagement scoring model.
5. Anthology champions Digital Accessibility and Inclusion with our biggest Global Accessibility Awareness Month event ever! Events included a joint webinar between Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Anthology on Accessibility and Inclusivity in Technology, promotional access to our Accessibility training course for faculty and friends, and participation in Educause’s Demo Day on Accessibility. But we don’t stop there, Anthology publicly emphasizes our commitment to accessibility and inclusive design.
4. Anthology® Engage powers the student experience of top institutions in 2025 College Rankings. In the Wall Street Journal’s Top 10 U.S. Colleges for Student Experience, six of these top-ranked schools—including the top four—rely on Anthology® Engage to power their student engagement strategies. In the 2025 WSJ/College Pulse Best Colleges Rankings, six of the top 10 public institutions and five of the top public and private institutions in this ranking use Anthology® Engage to support their students' co-curricular engagement and growth.
3. As institutions seek to use data, analytics, and AI to help improve efficiency and promote student success, Anthology® Illuminate continues to invest in aligning the data sets from Blackboard®, Anthology® Student and Anthology® Reach to simplify access to those data-driven insights at an institution. These efforts resulted in Anthology ranking as a Commander in the Tambellini StarChart™: 2024 Student Analytics Oct 2024 Report.
2. Anthology posts a record number of success stories including an amazing new partnership with TETFund as they expand higher education access in Nigeria with Blackboard®, University of Advancing Technology shared the benefits of migrating to the cloud with Anthology® Student, Tuoro University transformed the application experience with Anthology® Reach, University of Northampton leveraged Anthology® Illuminate to assess the interrelationship between course design and student interaction, and so many more on Anthology.com.
1. Anthology Services announced that we are improving the student experience across our Help Desk, OneStop, Enrollment and Marketing services with AI-Enabled Enrollment and Retention Services, Powered by AWS. The Anthology Services team has been helping institutions increase enrollment, improve student retention and so much more!
Happy New Year! Let’s kick off the new year looking ahead. Anthology has announced a new date and location for Anthology Together 2025. Anthology Together is now July 14-16, 2025, at the Fontainebleau Las Vegas. Join us at the event in Las Vegas, Nevada to learn about all the latest innovation, integration and industry recognition in 2025.
May the new year bring peace and prosperity for you, your family and your institution. May your faculty, staff, instructors and students all be filled with a bright, healthy, and promising future. Thank you again for being a partner with Anthology on this amazing journey to revolutionize Higher Education Technology for the future!
Carisa Stringer
Vice President of Product Marketing
Anthology
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