Should I use ReservesDirect, Blackboard, or LearnLink?
That depends: LearnLink is best at creating student community, Blackboard is best at administering courses, and ReservesDirect is best at providing course materials. You cant reserve a book in the library with Blackboard, and you cant fax a journal article directly into Learnlink. You might want to use all three; you can export ReservesDirect courses to Blackboard and LearnLink / FirstClass. See the chart at the end of this handout for a full breakdown of the features of all three programs. This document is intended to provide guidance in choosing between Blackboard and ReservesDirect and is not intended to be a training manual. Training contact information for each system is provided below. ReservesDirect (for help and training for Law faculty, email Felicity Walsh) is open-source software, developed at the Emory Libraries to manage electronic and physical library materials reserved for university courses. Because it manages both physical and electronic items, ReservesDirect provides
