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.
See what else is new with Blackboard Learn at Anthology.com/learn.
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Typical Customers
- Freelancers
- Small Businesses (2-50)
- Mid-size Companies (51-500)
- Large enterprises (500 and more)
Deployment
- Cloud-based
- On-premise
Pricing starting from:
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Total features of Blackboard Learn: 75
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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 2021/08/18
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: Renewables & Environment
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Blackboard, learn in a complex fashion
Reviewed on 2022/09/07
If you compare this to operating systems, blackboard provides a more linux/windows experience. The...
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.
Pros
The big scale design of the platform is ideal to have all your academic needs in one. Access to a combine calendar allowing for easy visualization of homeworks, projects and tasks. Easy view of currents classes and course materials. With the years of experience this platform is reliable and complete.
Cons
Even though the complexity is robust, sometimes it can be overwhelming for students and ease of access across the platform is not the best compared to other market competitors.
- 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 2020/03/05
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: E-Learning
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
Using Blackboard as a Student
Reviewed on 2022/12/26
Communication between the different groups was easy to coordinate.
Communication between the different groups was easy to coordinate.
Pros
Navigating between courses and links was easy and intuitive.
Cons
The interface was clunky and a little old school. It was jarring switching from a tab with very streamlined mechanics to Blackboard.
- Industry: Management Consulting
- Company size: 201-500 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Perfect and always saves time
Reviewed on 2022/10/07
Pros
The softwares capacity to synchronize contacts and users information.
Cons
Near to perfect but it has little hitch when it comes to support.
Alternatives Considered
CANVASReasons for Switching to Blackboard Learn
Canvas tend to favour learning institutions only.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:
- Starting from:
- 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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