Tegrity Teams with NERCOMP to Increase Access to Innovative Student Achievement System


Arrangement to Deliver Multiple Benefits to NERCOMP Member Institutions

SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 23 - Tegrity, the leading provider of student achievement systems to the higher education market, today announced that it has entered into a strategic partnership with the NorthEast Regional Computing Program (NERCOMP) to support the program's mission and deliver innovative benefits to its member institutions. NERCOMP is an affiliate of EDUCAUSE and its members are located primarily in New England and parts of the Middle Atlantic region.

As a result of this partnership, NERCOMP member institutions can now take advantage of an exclusive pricing arrangement to purchase the Tegrity Campus 2.0 industry-leading solutions.

"We strive to make education technology and innovative solutions such as those offered by Tegrity more readily available to NERCOMP members," said Andrew W. White, NERCOMP board member and director of Academic Technology Services for Bates College of Lewiston, Maine. "We look to such partnerships to help accelerate the expansion of technology-enabled learning throughout the region."

Tegrity® Campus 2.0, the company's flagship product, makes the classroom experience available all the time by automatically capturing, storing, and indexing every class on campus for replay by every student. Tegrity Campus 2.0 combines video, audio, and instructor slides with student notes and more, and delivers them all online to a PC/Mac, iPod, or mobile device, intelligently indexed for powerful search and retrieval. A complete enterprise system, Tegrity integrates seamlessly with existing campus solutions to ultimately help students achieve.

"NERCOMP has been faithfully serving the students, instructors, and educational institutions of the northeast region for nearly half a century," said Linda Briesacher, Vice President of Sales for Tegrity. "We are pleased and honored to be supporting their members and mission through this partnership."

Tegrity will be hosting a technology showcase and education webinars for the benefit of NERCOMP members. Contact Sheila Mehta-Green, Ph.D. (smehta-green@tegrity.com or 408-608-3050) for additional information on terms of the partnership, Tegrity solutions and preferred pricing for NERCOMP members.

About NERCOMP

NERCOMP's mission is to enhance the communication and dissemination of information related to the use of computers, networks and information technology in education, academic research and educational administration throughout the northeastern United States. NERCOMP is an affiliate of EDUCAUSE, a nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology.

About Tegrity

Tegrity Campus is the first student achievement system that impacts learning across the entire institution, improving retention and student satisfaction. Tegrity makes class time available all the time by automatically capturing, storing and indexing every class on campus for replay by every student. Educators know that the more students can see, hear, and experience class resources, the better they learn. With Tegrity, students quickly recall key moments or replay entire classes online, with their digital notes, on their iPods and cell phones. Tegrity is based in Santa Clara, California with regional offices throughout the United States. For more information, visit www.tegrity.com/.

Source: Tegrity

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