Shocking (hardly): blackboard is pursuing a slew of additional patents

Their limp handshake of a patent pledge notwithstanding, turns out that bb is pursuing a raft of other patents that at least on their face, seem a bit overly broad. Anonymously posted over at slashdot is this list of patents pending (as an additional bonus, a spreadsheet with abstracts of the patents below is available here Download blackboard_patent_applications.xls - the spreadsheet's  author's name has been removed  - psst, thx Anonymous!):

• 20060259351 "Method and system for assessment within a multi-level organization" (Filed November 16, 2006)
• 20060242004 "Method and system for curriculum planning and curriculum mapping" (Filed October 26, 2006)
• 20060242003 "Method and system for selective deployment of instruments within an assessment management system" (Filed October 26, 2006)
• 20060241993 "Method and system for importing and exporting assessment project related data" (Filed October 26, 2006)
• 20060241992 "Method and system for flexible modeling of a multi-level organization for purposes of assessment" (Filed October 26, 2006)
• 20060241988 "Method and system for generating an assignment binder within an assessment management system" (Filed October 26, 2006)
• 20060168233 "Internet-based education support system and methods" (Filed July 27, 2006)
• 20060026213 "Content and portal systems and associated methods" (Filed February 2, 2006)
• 20050086296 "Content system and associated methods" (Filed April 21, 2005)
• 20040167822 "Method and system for conducting online transactions" (Filed August 26, 2004)
• 20040153509 "Internet-based education support system, method and medium with modular text-editing component for use in a web-based application" (Filed August 5, 2004)
• 20040030781 "Internet-based education support system and method with multi-language capability" (Filed February 12, 2004)

Boy....It's just a pain to have all these patent databases like FreshPatents and Google's Patent Search online....was so much easier when all this was hidden....