About Blackboard Learn









Blackboard Learn pricing
Blackboard Learn does not have a free version but does offer a free trial.
Alternatives to Blackboard Learn
Blackboard Learn Reviews
Feature rating

- Industry: Writing & Editing
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Daily for 2+ years
-
Review Source
Simplifies Grades, Course Communications, & Materials Distribution
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: Accounting
- Company size: 51-200 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
-
Review Source
Blackboard
Pros
it's easy to use and has some great features
Cons
it's hard to search for a specific thing like the title of a doc
- Industry: Education Management
- Company size: 501-1,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
-
Review Source
BlackBoard Learn is a Relic of a Bygone Era
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.
Pros
BlackBoard Learn is a reliable tool for basic communication, content collection, and assessments. There are convenience factors baked into its framework in the sense that instructors can readily copy and reuse materials from earlier semesters, but other capabilities have far surpassed the benefits of this complacency factor. Also, the price point of BlackBoard Learn is extremely compelling, and they have reliable customer support and service.
Cons
Doing anything on BlackBoard Learn requires significantly more clicks and testing than competing products. The design is clunky, and it directly contradicts the instructional delivery of faculty who know what else is out there, as well as the learning-design preferences of Gen-Z students.
Reasons for Switching to Blackboard Learn
I was not part of the committee that made the decision to continue with BlackBoard Learn, but I believe the continuation was justified because of its low-cost and the challenge of switching to a competing model. Upgrading the LMS is a bit like updating your operating system. You can kick the can down the road and keep your status quo in place, but when you eventually update, you gain new capabilities, efficiencies, securities, and collaborative synergies.- Industry: Management Consulting
- Company size: 201-500 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
-
Review Source
Perfect and always saves time
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.- Industry: E-Learning
- Company size: 201-500 Employees
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
-
Review Source
Blackboard
great for school and I use it everyday
Pros
I like how organized this is, it’s super easy to use
Cons
I wish that some of the sub folders are a little more organized