Case Study: Bellevue University achieves 50% faster course builds with Anthology's Blackboard AI Design Assistant

Streamlining Content Development in Blackboard with the AI Design Assistant

Bellevue University, a private institution serving 19,000+ primarily adult learners, needed to streamline lengthy course-development workflows for its new Workplace Learning Portfolio. Instructional designers and subject-matter experts previously spent 6–8 weeks on up-front content work and up to 16 weeks for full course builds, so Bellevue adopted the AI Design Assistant in Anthology Blackboard from Anthology to accelerate content creation and improve course quality.

Anthology’s AI Design Assistant provided a head start for designers, cutting course build time by 50%—reducing up-front development from 6–8 weeks to about 3 weeks and shrinking whole-build schedules from 16 weeks to 8 weeks—while freeing instructional teams to produce higher-fidelity drafts, more dynamic, skills-based learning objects, and deeper collaboration with subject-matter experts.

Bellevue University

Rick Koch

Executive Director, Emerging Technologies