About Blackboard Learn
Easy, engaging, and accessible, Blackboard Learn has been redesigned in collaboration with educators and is better than ever before.
With hundreds of new SaaS based features, a network of over 200 partners, and deep, seamless integrations all designed to work reliably alongside your current technologies, Blackboard Learn is low-maintenance, modern, simple, and focused on improving learner outcomes.
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- Industry: Writing & Editing
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Simplifies Grades, Course Communications, & Materials Distribution
Reviewed on 18/08/2021
There are a lot of learning management systems out there, and I've used several of them. Blackboard...
There are a lot of learning management systems out there, and I've used several of them. Blackboard is my favorite. It has excellent capabilities, improves organization, and makes it very easy to communicate with students.
Pros
Blackboard is a great tool for communicating with students, distributing course materials, and recording student grades. The "one-stop shopping" approach makes it easy for professors to stay organized in each class, and it also makes it easy for students to stay organized. When used well, Blackboard allows you to do everything from communicating with students to uploading assignment sheets to sending class announcements.
As a writing professor, I especially appreciate the SafeAssign feature that checks student assignments for plagiarism. Once I started requiring my students to use SafeAssign, I found that plagiarism attempts dropped off significantly. (So did attempts to recycle papers from one course to another.) In addition, SafeAssign saves me a lot of leg work when students DO plagiarize -- it flags the suspect text as well as the source, so I don't have to hunt it down myself.
Cons
For me, Blackboard wasn't intuitive to learn. Even after 7 years of using it nearly ever day during the semester, I had some challenges making it do what I wanted it to do. I often spent far more time than I should have trying to customize things for my courses. But, as long as I stuck to the basic features -- which are also the ones I personally found most useful/beneficial -- Blackboard was a great tool for organizing my courses and keeping students on track.
- Industry: Consumer Electronics
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Monthly for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Wow..an excellent online Learning platform
Reviewed on 30/07/2021
Pandemic-related problems with submitting assignments and accessing information for my online and...
Pandemic-related problems with submitting assignments and accessing information for my online and face-to-face classes. It has become increasingly apparent to me as I progress through graduate school that this site will be useful not only for my coursework, but also for group presentations and collaboration with other students.
Pros
My assignments and materials are organized in one place. As of the most recent update, it is now much easier to use than it used to be. Assigning assignments and adding details to classes has never been simpler. Now, it's much easier to use than it was before. The process of giving students feedback and organizing my responses is simple. It's also how I communicate with them. As a result, it's easy to refer back to them and remember what I said.
I also like that Blackboard integrates well with other apps. When it comes to presentations, I rely heavily on VoiceThread and Panopto. GoReact and Top Hat are also on my to-do list.
Cons
An update to the mobile app is still in order. There is a lot of work to be done on this project. On the web, the user experience was much better.
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MoodleReasons for Choosing Blackboard Learn
I've used Moodle and Canvas, and I believe Blackboard Learn is more user-friendly and easier to use. The saying "you get what you pay for" applies to Blackboard.Switched From
CANVASReasons for Switching to Blackboard Learn
Student logistical challenges were addressed and resources were provided by Blackboard. It simplifies managing and improving communication with students and teachers. The whiteboard allows you to attach Microsoft Outlook, and anyone in the class can send an e-mail to the class.- Industry: Education Management
- Company size: 5,001–10,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 2.0 /10
Blackboard - Really clunky!
Reviewed on 5/03/2020
At our institution Bb Learn instructions sometimes don't match the local implementation.
At our institution Bb Learn instructions sometimes don't match the local implementation.
Pros
What I like most about the software is what is is *supposed* to do: serve as a total course management system.
Cons
Everything about Blackboard is clunky — at least as it is set up in our university. Operations that should be drag and drop require multiple clicks. Nearly every function in Blackboard is present in other generic software and works more efficiently. In addition, Blackboard (as set up in our school) forces templates onto teachers, Redoing the templates into usable form takes lots of clicks.
Here are two examples of the most egregious design errors.
1. The Bb gradebook. It vaguely resembles like Excel or Google sheets in how functions. But unlike spreadsheets where one can easily duplicate columns and reassign formulas, the Gradebook requires separate multiple-menu-click operations for every column creation, every grade entry and every grade change. We find little flexibility in creating grading formulas, compared to off-the-shelf spreadsheet programs. And the import-export functions of Bb gradesheets to generic spreadsheets is so clunky that it is unusable.
2. Course duplication. Bb allows the teacher to duplicate a course. Except it doesn't really work. If you try and duplicate the course you taught in the year 2020 for use in 2021, you find that Blackboard will duplicate the general template for all university courses without importing all of the eaacher's innovations.
- Industry: Education Management
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 2.0 /10
How a big platform loose the ranking
Reviewed on 15/12/2020
The mobolebapp is not functional, there is no gamification nor maestries.
The mobolebapp is not functional, there is no gamification nor maestries.
Pros
I like the advertisements they did in the past, everyone knew how expensive and famous it was.
Cons
They did not innovate, they both a lot of little competitors and lately they are selling them because that strategy has lost again more innovative platforms and cheaper.
Reasons for Switching to Blackboard Learn
We had it for long time because most important universities had it but we had to stop using it, the support was getting bad, no innovation and other platforms were cheaper enough to pay the migration process.- Industry: Biotechnology
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
BlackBoard as a student
Reviewed on 15/04/2020
It's super easy to navigate and find all your resources on. It's well organized and I love it.
It's super easy to navigate and find all your resources on. It's well organized and I love it.
Pros
I really like using blackboard. It is a lot better than other programs I've had to learn for school. It is super easy to navigate. You can find all your assignments there. There's a calendar to make when assignments are due. My favorite part I think, is the fact that you can email another student through blackboard. So if you are doing a project and you've never met your partner, or don't have their information, you can email them through blackboard.
Cons
There really isn't anything that I don't like about it.
Blackboard Learn FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for Blackboard Learn.Q. What type of pricing plans does Blackboard Learn offer?
Blackboard Learn offers the following pricing plans:
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- Pricing model: Subscription
- Free Trial: Available
Contact Anthology for more pricing details.
Q. Who are the typical users of Blackboard Learn?
Blackboard Learn has the following typical customers:
Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000
Q. What languages does Blackboard Learn support?
Blackboard Learn supports the following languages:
Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, European Portuguese, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish
Q. Does Blackboard Learn support mobile devices?
Blackboard Learn supports the following devices:
Android (Mobile), iPhone (Mobile), iPad (Mobile)
Q. What other apps does Blackboard Learn integrate with?
We do not have any information about what integrations Blackboard Learn has
Q. What level of support does Blackboard Learn offer?
Blackboard Learn offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, Phone Support, 24/7 (Live rep), Chat
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