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Help learners, instructors and institutions achieve their goals with Blackboard Learn by Anthology, a market-leading Learning Management System (LMS) that integrates with the world’s most holistic EdTech ecosystem.

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It's been a wonderful experience with Blackboard, i love how other applications integrate so well with Blackboard.

student

Blackboard is wonderful for students, it is very easy to use and they constantly do updates that help improve the system.

Manager 

Overall I had a wonderful experience and I’ve talked to other students about their thoughts and the overall consensus was it’s great for the busy college student.

Undergraduate Student

I found this advantageous when I was in college as an undergraduate. It was great to track my course work and online assignments through this LMS.

Student

It is super easy to navigate, to upload and share documents, deliver assignments and communicate with other students through the discussion forums.

Teacher

I like that my school district can organize the design that they deem best for their community.

Professor

I like the advertisements they did in the past, everyone knew how expensive and famous it was.

Systems Administrator

We ran our own host and it had nothing but problems, and I am not talking hardware. Every time we went to run an update, it broke something.

Adjunct Professor E-Discovery

It has all of the features and functionality that you need and has great customer support. It is a bigger company and has corresponding resources.

graduate student researcher

This software was easy to navigate as an undergraduate college student enrolled in several classes. It was easy to access course materials and track my progress throughout the course.

Purchasing clerk 

Blackboard is a very advanced tool to help elevate the online learning experience and it’s also easy to use.

Has several integrations and works well for those on the go. As a student, it was great to have visibility into my day to course load and assignments.

Webmaster

When you first enter blackboard it can seem hard to navigate and seem overwhelming for both student and teacher. The options for customization for teachers are somewhat limited.

postdoc

Gradebook is one of the best features of blackboard, I have quizzes almost everyday for my students, posting these quizzes grades were very straightforward using blackboard.

Blackboard Learn is a frustrating platform to use.

The mobolebapp is not functional, there is no gamification nor maestries.

Teacher, MsC Educational Technology

Sharing is a piece of cake and motivates the students to interact and comunicate. The price is affordable and it works in any smartphone and tablet, any available device.

Since we are a small organization  operating on a minimal budget, the trial period gave us the opportunity to use the platform and make our decision for the future.

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Class for Web (formerly Blackboard Collaborate)

If you compare this to operating systems, blackboard provides a more linux/windows experience. The platform is robust and complex with a lot to offer, but this pro at the same time makes it a downside since it is not user friendly compared to other market competitors. As a student who used it for 3+ years. I understand and appreciate what the platform provides but I prefer simplicity over complexity. 

Blackboard, learn in a complex fashion 

An Honest Review of Blackboard

Blackboard learn- a need for updates 

Easy to Onboard, Implement

Blackboard Learn is an invaluable tool for universities across the country. It removes much of the unneeded paperwork via online assignments that automatically grade themselves (which is also wonderful on the student side, receiving immediate feedback). My college experience was improved by having Blackboard in it, as I had been to schools with inferior software that was more frustrating to utilize.

How Blackboard Contributed to My College Success

Overall excellent experience when familiarized with all tools even though, their continuous updates make it difficult to say that you know the platform 100 percent

Blackboard learn a way of improving virtual times

An Essential Tool for University

Crissssp and Clean

We have since moved on to Canvas at my workplace, and I long for the days when all we used was Blackboard. I have had more trouble with Canvas than Blackboard with my distance learners.

A perfect LMS for remote learning

I have used BlackBoard Learn for 5 years now, and I can report that it's a tool that I've tolerated with a fair degree of frustration, as opposed to a tool that I'd relish and recommend to others. 

BlackBoard Learn is a Relic of a Bygone Era

Perfect and always saves time

Reliable where it counts

An effective tool, worth the cost

Easy tool for following courses

Comprehensive learning management system

Easy and flexible learning management system.

Useful as a student to have assessments and feedback from multiple courses in one place

Blackboard learn 

I used blackboard as a graduate student and I have been using it now as an instructor for my larger chemistry classes with 200 to 250 students, and it is really very helpful, makes my classes run smoothly. 

blackboard Learn for undergraduate classes

I like that it does a little bit of everything. Some other professors at my university liked to rely on BB Learn for everything, including video-conference and online exams. Being as feature rich as it is, BB Learn has the problem that the user interface might be very challenging for some people. I guess you either really like it or really don't, so when it doesn't click you can get frustrated by a lot of things. Still, for the people loving it, they will make the most out of it. One of the best tools out there. Easy to recommend for general purposes.

Does the job and has everything you need

Great LMS for school or uni

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.

Simplifies Grades, Course Communications, & Materials Distribution

The platform helps me because I can continue my education from a distance using the various alternatives offered by Blackboard. It is an entire LMS system, incredibly user-friendly, and connects with a variety of audio and video resources.

Exceptional Learning Management Systems Provide Integration With Third-Party Applications

I've been using Blackboard since the University and up until know I've tried other platforms that are easy to use. However Blackboard has so much potential and can be a good platform.

Powerful but confusing.

The original higher learning software 

Director Of Technology

Hard to use software that is also very expensive!

Simon S.:                                              Hi, I'm Simon. I am a director of technology. Today I'm giving Blackboard Learn four out of five stars. Click below for more reviews.
                                                       So before we decided to go with Blackboard Learn, we were actually looking at Blackbaud, which is another LMS solution for schools. They just seemed to be a little bit more intense with the data input aspects of a learning management system, and we were looking for something that could integrate a little bit better with our school community, as well as our students and teachers, so Blackboard Learn seemed to have that possibility for us.
                                                       So, Blackboard Learn has a nice communication module that's built in where students and teachers can interact with each other virtually as well, which is very important in these days, where students cannot only be at home and in the classroom and communicate with each other on various assignments, as well as look up their grades, et cetera. So, Blackboard Learn does a really nice job of integrating it and making it feel very easy to use for the students.
                                                       So Blackboard Learn does a great job integrating with many student information systems, such as the one we currently use, so we knew that going into the acquisition of Blackboard Learn. So with that said, the onboarding process was seamless. We were able to train our teachers up with how to use the software and it went on without a hitch.
                                                       I recommend if you're interested in utilizing Blackboard Learn is to really do your research and know if this is a software that's best fit for your environment. The integration piece, the onboarding piece is very important, so making sure that Blackboard Learn, that you're able to onboard it in a way that has a positive impact for your business or school, which it did for us.

As both a teacher and a student - Blackboard works for me

Joel:                                                  Hey! My name is Joel. I'm a teacher for high school and middle school science, and I give Blackboard three out of five stars. You can click below for more reviews like these.
                                                       I use Blackboard to try to integrate my online content onto my students' Chromebooks, their cell phones, and in person in the classroom at desktop computers, try to make sure that they've got a full range of access to different types of materials. They can respond. I can give them quizzes and assessments through the integrated learning management system.
                                                       Blackboard has some really cool features, and I think it allows a really good job of being able to pull in video and put in your own content, pictures, video, links to other websites, as well as allow students to respond with those same types of content. It's kind of an all in one package.
                                                       Unfortunately, with all that different type of material and content that you can use with Blackboard, it's a little wonky. It's kind of hard to find where certain things are and where they go. And as a teacher, I spend some of my time teaching my students how to use Blackboard rather than the content itself.

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