# Blackboard Reviews **Vendor:** Blackboard **Category:** [Learning Management Systems](https://www.g2.com/categories/learning-management-system-lms) **Average Rating:** 4.0/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 1,066 ## About Blackboard Every day, millions of students around the world learn, collaborate, and grow with Blackboard. More than an LMS, Blackboard is where learning comes to life—where students build skills, gain confidence, and prepare for what’s next. It supports modern teaching and learning by helping institutions deliver engaging instruction, improve accessibility, and better understand learner progress. Used by learners, instructors, and administrators across more than 70 countries, Blackboard is designed in close partnership with educators, helping ensure innovation is grounded in proven teaching practices and aligned with what institutions need most. Blackboard supports the full teaching lifecycle, from course and content creation to assessment, grading, and ongoing engagement—across online, in-person, and hybrid learning models. A key priority for Blackboard is reducing the administrative burden on instructors so they can spend more time on teaching and student support. With native AI capabilities, Blackboard helps streamline practical course-building and assessment tasks by offering a strong starting point that instructors can tailor to their own teaching style. Blackboard also includes accessibility support that helps instructors create more inclusive learning experiences, while giving institutions a clearer path toward measurable progress at scale. Blackboard is evolving quickly. It has delivered the fastest rate of innovation in the LMS market for four years in a row, releasing frequent updates informed directly by the global learning community. Combined with deep integrations across the broader education ecosystem, mobile-first access, and actionable insights, Blackboard helps institutions continuously improve teaching and learning. Visit www.anthology.com/why-choose-blackboard to see what sets Blackboard apart. ## Blackboard Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users appreciate the **ease of use** in Blackboard, finding content organization and navigation straightforward for students. (48 reviews) - Users appreciate the **navigation ease** of Blackboard, finding it user-friendly and great for students. (27 reviews) - Users appreciate the **user-friendly design** of Blackboard, making navigation and integration seamless for educators and learners. (23 reviews) - Users appreciate the **feature diversity** in Blackboard, benefiting from its updates and extensive educational integrations. (20 reviews) - Users appreciate the **robust integration and user-friendly features** of Blackboard, enhancing the overall online learning experience. (15 reviews) - Integrations (15 reviews) - Tools (15 reviews) - Easy Setup (13 reviews) - Users appreciate the **intuitive design** of Blackboard, making it easy to use and implement for both instructors and students. (13 reviews) - Continuous Development (12 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users report **limited features** in Blackboard, complicating grading and assessment processes, and lacking customization options. (24 reviews) - Users find that Blackboard is losing **modern features** , making it difficult to recommend as an effective LMS. (15 reviews) - Users find the **limited customization** of Blackboard frustrating, as it restricts adaptability for diverse educational needs. (13 reviews) - Users find the **lack of intuitiveness** in Blackboard frustrating, leading to dissatisfaction and abandonment of the platform. (12 reviews) - Users find Blackboard's interface **not intuitive** , leading to frustration and a steep learning curve for new students. (12 reviews) - Poor Interface Design (10 reviews) - Grading Issues (9 reviews) - Integration Issues (9 reviews) - Limited Functionality (9 reviews) - Poor Support (9 reviews) ## Blackboard Reviews ### 1. Blackboard is a great LMS, always enhancing their product. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Cheryl M. | Instructional Technologist/Application Administrator, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 09, 2024 **What do you like best about Blackboard?** Blackboard is user friendly. There are a variety of features that are enticements to the overachieving faculty who are always looking to enhance their course deployments. Because it has been in the LMS market for so long, nearly all vendors have made sure they can integrate easily with it. With SaaS now deployed for large software applications, it has made implementation and upgrades much easier and more efficient. Customer support is tiered so if the first level does not have a fix, it gets escalated to the next tier until it is resolved. I use Blackboard daily and have for nearly 20 years now. **What do you dislike about Blackboard?** Customer Support is based out of the South America so getting someone that truly understands the problem or speaks clear English is at times a hinderance to getting quick resolutions. Also, for large deployments like mine, some basic features were left off years ago as they enchanced the product and never brought back. Like setting a pagination display for number of viewable records. I must change this 25 times a day. Also, searching is limited to only one field which with 100,000 users, looking for "Smith" is tedious at best. **What problems is Blackboard solving and how is that benefiting you?** Upgrading the interface to a more 21 century look and feel. ### 2. Highly Recommended for Learning & Development **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rahul K. | Senior Specialist, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 05, 2025 **What do you like best about Blackboard?** Oh Where to start, I mean there's so much useful tools and features that makes our learning operations so smooth. From easy navigation, to complex business operations through Genius SIS, from scalable platform solution to integration to third-party tools and icing on cake, the support that we get. This is an all rounder easy to use, easy to implement scalable platform that any L&D or an institution need. Blackboard has evolve from just another LMS to must have platform and now with feature pack with AI capability. **What do you dislike about Blackboard?** The reporting tool still needs to improve which I am sure will be on their priority list. This is one of the area where pulling the report still depends on tools like Illuminate, Power BI and/or Direct Database. **What problems is Blackboard solving and how is that benefiting you?** With complex academic structure distributed in more than 10 campuses. We have over 5000+ courses to rollout every year. From updating the materials to rolling out the changes to each of the courses are very challenging and time consuming even when you have a global team. This would not be possible if we do not have the Blackboard capability to realtime rollout of any changes. This has been a one stop solution for our complex needs of academic operations, this not only saves hundreds of hours but also makes our life easier. ### 3. Blackboard Review **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in E-Learning | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 22, 2026 **What do you like best about Blackboard?** It’s ease of use once classes are established. **What do you dislike about Blackboard?** Blackboard does not support all types of integrations. **What problems is Blackboard solving and how is that benefiting you?** The ability for students to join Blackboard courses throughout the country benefits me as an online high school teacher. ### 4. Clunky Interface Undermines All-in-One Class Solution **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Tiffany H. | Classroom Teacher, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 08, 2026 **What do you like best about Blackboard?** I do like that you have everything you need for a class in one spot, grades included. **What do you dislike about Blackboard?** The user interface isn't a smooth as other LMS plaforms. **What problems is Blackboard solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is an alright interface for an education course. ### 5. Blackboard as an LMS **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Guido G. | Advisor, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 09, 2025 **What do you like best about Blackboard?** Blackboard stands out for its robustness and versatility as a learning management system (LMS). I especially like its ability to integrate academic tools, assessments, analytics, and communication into a single ecosystem, which facilitates large-scale course management. Additionally, its flexibility to adapt to different educational models, multilingual support, and accessibility options make it a solid solution for institutions with diverse and complex needs. **What do you dislike about Blackboard?** Its interface can feel outdated and unintuitive compared to more modern platforms, which sometimes makes the learning curve unnecessarily long. **What problems is Blackboard solving and how is that benefiting you?** it allows me to teach easily and follow everything ### 6. Great for academia **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 29, 2025 **What do you like best about Blackboard?** I like that is fairly easy to figure out and that you can copy from one shell to another making it easy. We use this constantly and we started using ultra. **What do you dislike about Blackboard?** There are still features that havent been set up. My class is pass fail and there is no p/f. You can't grade everyone's assignments all at once (like completed or not). **What problems is Blackboard solving and how is that benefiting you?** Able to communicate, show assignments, and turn items in that doesn't have to be in person. ### 7. Great product **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Austin G. | Section Sergeant Infantry Mortars, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 15, 2025 **What do you like best about Blackboard?** Great management and easy to use. Would recommend **What do you dislike about Blackboard?** Great book sometimes gets tricky. Would like to see it automatically created as data is put in **What problems is Blackboard solving and how is that benefiting you?** The AI functions and adding better user engagement products ### 8. Course organization **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 15, 2025 **What do you like best about Blackboard?** Helps keeps classes organized and calendar is nice to help with keeping track of due dates **What do you dislike about Blackboard?** Not great to use while on a phone and larger files are supported **What problems is Blackboard solving and how is that benefiting you?** Keeps track of document submission and feedback ### 9. Use for Masters program **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 25, 2025 **What do you like best about Blackboard?** Easy to navigate and see everything in a structured view. **What do you dislike about Blackboard?** The home page can become cluttered with unnecessary information. **What problems is Blackboard solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use it for Masters program, so it is the choice of the university I attend ### 10. Amazing LMS System **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Penny G. | Faculty Lecturer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 15, 2024 **What do you like best about Blackboard?** It's ease of use/navigation. The gradebook is straightforward is simple to manage. Posting feedback on submitted assignments works well. Smooth course copy. I have used Blackboard for over 12 years between institutions. I am now having to switch to a new LMS and prefer Blackboard better. I used it daily and still use it at one institution. **What do you dislike about Blackboard?** The one main downside I have found with Blackboard that if I have a student that is allowed extra time I have to manually enter it for each quiz **What problems is Blackboard solving and how is that benefiting you?** I teach 4 to 5 classes with it at the University/College level. ### 11. I have been using Blackboard for teaching in University for 10 years **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Augustina M. | Epidemiologist, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 07, 2024 **What do you like best about Blackboard?** The feature is easy to navigate. Students also adapt quickly even for first time user. **What do you dislike about Blackboard?** Sync issue for students' grades. For example sync with grade from Pearson Mastering program. **What problems is Blackboard solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am using it for students to complete require courses. ### 12. My Review on Blackboard **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shivakumara A. | Senior Software Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 28, 2024 **What do you like best about Blackboard?** I liked Blackboard learning which helped me getting all things in one place, which is a great backbone for the teachers. Also helped inorganizingsharing material, talking to students for clearing their doubts. **What do you dislike about Blackboard?** Sometime I feel it is old fashioned and messy, for new user it is little bit tough to identify the options available in BlackBoard. I guess Blackboard need to be bit user friendly. **What problems is Blackboard solving and how is that benefiting you?** I felt it helped me alot in keepingeverything organised, where it was useful in managing materials, assignments and testing at one place. Also helped us in sharing the lessons and how they are performing overall. ### 13. A learning curve, but full of features for students, teachers, and staff **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 16, 2024 **What do you like best about Blackboard?** As an admin, I like how well laid out Blackboard's admin panel is. It's customizable, too. **What do you dislike about Blackboard?** I wish it would be easier to search for at least filter data within the GUI (i.e., give me all course for X semester built after Y date using Ultra) **What problems is Blackboard solving and how is that benefiting you?** It gives our teachers and students a platform for teaching and learning. I believe the LMS is doing its part when it's "invisible" to users, and it tends to do that admirably, especially Ultra. ### 14. Good so far **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** LaToya H. | Instructional Designer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 16, 2024 **What do you like best about Blackboard?** I like how easy it is to use and build courses. **What do you dislike about Blackboard?** Some tools or features are not as user friendly in comparison to other LMSs **What problems is Blackboard solving and how is that benefiting you?** The Ultra conversion will make it easier to navigate courses for students and provide a cleaner interface. ### 15. Easy to use for both learners and students **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Frances M. | Instructional Technologist, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 16, 2024 **What do you like best about Blackboard?** i like that all courses and assigments are in one plattfrom **What do you dislike about Blackboard?** it is hard to mantain with all the constant updates and trobleshooting **What problems is Blackboard solving and how is that benefiting you?** Online courses and classroom courses are held on Blackboard. All assigments and student work is stored on BB. ### 16. moving courses to Ultra **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Marian J. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 16, 2024 **What do you like best about Blackboard?** I like that I can track the students progress. **What do you dislike about Blackboard?** That it does not let me copy information from on course to another and Survey. **What problems is Blackboard solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps keep track of the classes that learners are taking. ### 17. BB Learn works great **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** jo j. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 15, 2024 **What do you like best about Blackboard?** I am still learning about BBLearn but so far the experience has been great **What do you dislike about Blackboard?** They are getting rid of WIKI that we used for scheduling clinical courses. **What problems is Blackboard solving and how is that benefiting you?** Student Learning ### 18. Very user friendly **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** cassondra p. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 16, 2024 **What do you like best about Blackboard?** I like that the content and courses are easy to customize. **What do you dislike about Blackboard?** I dislike that you can not do a bulk delete items from the content menu. **What problems is Blackboard solving and how is that benefiting you?** n/a ### 19. Bbreview **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Yordanos B. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 16, 2024 **What do you like best about Blackboard?** Reliability of the product is what I like **What do you dislike about Blackboard?** Takes longer to implemnet easy workflows **What problems is Blackboard solving and how is that benefiting you?** Supports both face to face and online courses ### 20. Narrate my tale **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** angela s. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 15, 2024 **What do you like best about Blackboard?** Ease of use. Students really like the platform. **What do you dislike about Blackboard?** Removing wikis and providing no alternative to use. **What problems is Blackboard solving and how is that benefiting you?** Student learning ### 21. Implementation is a Breeze **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Government Administration | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 16, 2024 **What do you like best about Blackboard?** I like how easy it is to learn how to use the system. For both instructors and students. **What do you dislike about Blackboard?** The lack of training materials provided for our custom CSS overlay has been difficult to navigate **What problems is Blackboard solving and how is that benefiting you?** We've implemented Blackboard Ultra state-wide with 10 different partner colleges to provide access to education. ### 22. Amazing Experience **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Syed H. | Chief Executive Officer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 02, 2024 **What do you like best about Blackboard?** Its intuitive interface streamlines course navigation, while robust tools facilitate seamless communication and collaboration. The versatile content delivery options, coupled with effective assessment tools, empower educators and enhance student engagement. **What do you dislike about Blackboard?** Blackboard Learn falls short with occasional glitches, leading to frustrating user experiences. Navigation can be cumbersome, causing confusion for both educators and students. **What problems is Blackboard solving and how is that benefiting you?** Blackboard Learn addresses key challenges in online education by offering a centralized platform for seamless course management, fostering effective communication, and streamlining assessment processes. Its versatile tools enhance organization and collaboration, ultimately benefiting users with an efficient and comprehensive solution for virtual learning environments. ### 23. Efficient Learning Management with Room for Improvement **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Justin S. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 16, 2023 **What do you like best about Blackboard?** Course Organization: Blackboard Learn offers a structured environment where course materials, assignments, and resources are neatly organized, making it easy to navigate and access everything in one place. Communication Tools: The built-in communication tools like announcements, discussion boards, and messaging help facilitate effective interaction between instructors and students. This is particularly useful for clarifying doubts and engaging in discussions outside the physical classroom. Assignment Submission: The assignment submission system is efficient and user-friendly. It allows students to submit their work digitally, and instructors can provide feedback directly on the platform, streamlining the feedback process. **What do you dislike about Blackboard?** User Interface: The user interface feels somewhat outdated and can be confusing for new users. A more modern and intuitive design would enhance the user experience and make navigation easier. Mobile App Experience: The mobile app version of Blackboard Learn could be more polished. It currently lacks some features available on the desktop version, and the app's performance can be inconsistent. Complexity for Instructors: While the platform offers many features, some instructors might find it overwhelming to set up and manage their courses, especially when dealing with larger class sizes. **What problems is Blackboard solving and how is that benefiting you?** Centralization: It provides a centralized platform for all course-related activities, which streamlines the learning process and keeps everything organized. Flexibility: It allows for asynchronous learning, accommodating various schedules and learning styles. Communication: The communication tools facilitate easy interaction with instructors and peers, addressing doubts and sharing insights outside of the physical classroom. Feedback Loop: The assignment submission system and feedback mechanism allow for timely assessment and improvement of my work. ### 24. Blackboard learn **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Zille H. | Chemist, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 15, 2023 **What do you like best about Blackboard?** Blackboard learn is an interesting platform for both online and offline learning.Here the most important feature is to conduct online tests and also helps instructors to deliver their lectures in best way. **What do you dislike about Blackboard?** The thing which i dislike is that it sometime gets down and we are unable to access our studies like we can attend classes or submit any assignment and also restricted to talk to the instructors. **What problems is Blackboard solving and how is that benefiting you?** Somestimes its difficult to learn something online but with the hlep of blackboard we are connected to highly qualified teachers and they try their best to transfer concepts through logistically work on this blackboard. ### 25. Blackboard is my daily coursework app for obtaining my college degree from Strayer University. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Amber N. | Contributor, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 26, 2023 **What do you like best about Blackboard?** That it allows me access to my weekly Coursework for my classes, which in turn allows for me to complete my education from home. Although I am unaware of who many of them competitors may be, I'm certain if it were not the best platform available, Strayer would not have enlisted them as their main source. **What do you dislike about Blackboard?** That it needs updating almost weekly sometimes. While I don't have the BEST wifi service to allow ease of access, when the app gets stuck, it stays stuck. I would like to see it updated and capable of easier use. **What problems is Blackboard solving and how is that benefiting you?** Blackboard Learn is solving the problem of allowing me to remotely complete my degree without th daily hustle of having to report to a classroom. It allows me to complete and submit coursework on my own schedule. ### 26. Worked well in a small course setting **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 09, 2024 **What do you like best about Blackboard?** The fact that it was able to intergrate with platforms we were already using. **What do you dislike about Blackboard?** Sometimes it was not user friendly, at times it was difficult to manuever some of the technical aspects. **What problems is Blackboard solving and how is that benefiting you?** Allowing our team to learn together when not in the same space ### 27. Awesome, organized application **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** RUDRA PRATAP D. | Python Training Associate, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 22, 2024 **What do you like best about Blackboard?** Its interface is very user-friendly, which can help a new user learn and use it easily. **What do you dislike about Blackboard?** that it may provide some packages for students **What problems is Blackboard solving and how is that benefiting you?** The makers have imported all the daily need features so that the use of third-party extensions is not needed. ### 28. Best technology and learning management tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shivam S. | Business Development Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 31, 2024 **What do you like best about Blackboard?** I really like the User interface and features available on their platform. **What do you dislike about Blackboard?** Sometimes it works slow and it has less partnerships with popular teachers. **What problems is Blackboard solving and how is that benefiting you?** It helps alot in my startup, its very useful for the small business owners. ### 29. Useful tool for students **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Mayank A. | Associate Consultant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 15, 2024 **What do you like best about Blackboard?** User interface and ease of accessing the tool **What do you dislike about Blackboard?** I used this tool while i was pursuing my online classes for MCA they were using this in there portal for online classes **What problems is Blackboard solving and how is that benefiting you?** Online classes ### 30. Amazing experience **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Aditya S. | Graduate Software Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 08, 2024 **What do you like best about Blackboard?** Easy to use, implementation was smooth, good features it help a lot and good customer support. **What do you dislike about Blackboard?** Nothing special about dislike everything is good **What problems is Blackboard solving and how is that benefiting you?** About my personal studies and assignments. ### 31. The Online learning becomes easy. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rai Jamshed K. | Mathematics Teacher, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 08, 2023 **What do you like best about Blackboard?** I loke most the online assignment checking and grading system. The results can be hidden from the students. The whole algorithm is very easy to understand and easy to use. **What do you dislike about Blackboard?** The Mobile app need improvement. There are a lot of bugs like in the beginning there is log in issue. Then there is issue with grading the students. Also similarly the lagging issue is also a main concern. However, web version is fine. **What problems is Blackboard solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is very helpful in teaching the students virtually. The online assignments and the Marking the grades are also very convenient. Overall this changes the teaching ways. ### 32. It is a web-based virtual learning system with friends and colleagues **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Angoor R. | QA, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 14, 2023 **What do you like best about Blackboard?** I notice here weekly reviews and questions and answers are posted with the doubts. **What do you dislike about Blackboard?** Here, I don't see any specific reason to dislike this web application. **What problems is Blackboard solving and how is that benefiting you?** I went through the application and did not see any specific reason why Blackboard Learning is solving. ### 33. "Exploring Blackboard Learn: My Journey" **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Aaisha S. | COO| Strategic Leadership | People/HR Management, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 24, 2023 **What do you like best about Blackboard?** The best is it being centralised hub for managing all the course material and userfriendliness. I also liked its discussion board and messaging and mobile accesibility. **What do you dislike about Blackboard?** It takes long time to load, also sometimes, serves outages create distortion during lectures. My students faced navigation issue since they had multiple courses. **What problems is Blackboard solving and how is that benefiting you?** content management and interaction with students are the two most crucial things that were solved ### 34. It's good initiative for this era **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 15, 2024 **What do you like best about Blackboard?** Understandable and easy to access and high level knowledge **What do you dislike about Blackboard?** There is nothing to dislike but it's interface could be made more attractive **What problems is Blackboard solving and how is that benefiting you?** Can access and manage my things properly ### 35. Easy to use **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Angela B. | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 13, 2023 **What do you like best about Blackboard?** It was easy to use and had lots of support for users and admins. **What do you dislike about Blackboard?** The cost. Also, it didn't allow as much customization as Moodle. **What problems is Blackboard solving and how is that benefiting you?** It provided a learning management system for our students. We were able to provide online courses for secondary students using this learning management system. ### 36. A lot of potential, not there yet **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jordan W. | Business Education Teacher, Primary/Secondary Education, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 09, 2021 **What do you like best about Blackboard?** I like the student preview mode, I like being able to easily upload files, and I like the announcements page. I like that I can duplicate the class and use again next year. **What do you dislike about Blackboard?** It is a learning curve for students to figure out how to find files and submit them. Setting up folders is time consuming. Discussion board needs more formatting features. **Recommendations to others considering Blackboard:** It is nice for uploading all files and the collaborate space is nice. Students will need to be taught how to navigate. **What problems is Blackboard solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am able to serve both my in person and online students using blackboard and I am able to keep all of my files in one neat spot for me to use with the next class next year. ### 37. Accessible and Functional **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Kristen B. | Portfolio Manager, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 15, 2021 **What do you like best about Blackboard?** All content is housed in the same place, and it's easy to update any readings or syllabi as needed. The journal and blog functionality was handy in my English classes. I loved the ability to toggle with privacy settings on individual blog posts. Some required student feedback, while others did not and were more of a personal experiment for my students. Overall, BlackBoard's system is flexible and able to accommodate multiple learning strategies. **What do you dislike about Blackboard?** The grading system, for me, wasn't as functional and flexible as I'd like it to be and, due to my classroom needs. I had to keep grades on a separate system, which m **What problems is Blackboard solving and how is that benefiting you?** BlackBoard enabled me to implement learning strategies crucial to students' success and has made online learning an asset rather than an obstacle. ### 38. A Better Form of Free Online Learning Platform **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Matthew A. | Publisher, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 05, 2021 **What do you like best about Blackboard?** Easier to use than similar profiles, such as Moodle. Easy to learn and comes with a whole series of different options, including quizzes, grades, sharing, and attendance **What do you dislike about Blackboard?** Some elements require training in order to get the most out of the program **Recommendations to others considering Blackboard:** Consider using it over existing LMS systems, including Moodle. Find it not as good as Angel, which Blackboard replaced at our institution **What problems is Blackboard solving and how is that benefiting you?** Teaching a variety of in person and online classes with the flexibility of sharing course materials with students ### 39. New update, changed setup. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rebecca B. | Graduate Student, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 14, 2021 **What do you like best about Blackboard?** It has always been easy to access and find what is needed with the previous setup of courses and folders. I additionally like how an email is sent when documents are uploaded. **What do you dislike about Blackboard?** I dislike the new update. It is confusing and in my opinion, unnecessary as it does not add to functionality but rather to its aesthetic. I additionally dislike the setup for individuals to edit one document together. It is glitchy and does not work well. I would much rather use google documents as everybody can see which individual is typing and there is no concern of losing information. **What problems is Blackboard solving and how is that benefiting you?** The problem of turning in assignments and having access to information for my synchronous and asynchronous classes during this pandemic. I have realized the benefits as I go through graduate school and need to use this site not only for my courses, to submit group presentations and collaborate with others. ### 40. Blackboard Lean **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sandeep P. | Sandeep Panda, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 06, 2020 **What do you like best about Blackboard?** Blackboard Learn is an innovative and novel platform for student learning and collaboration. This is one of the platforms that have been explored a lot during the times of pandemic. It can be used to deliver online course management and other items. **What do you dislike about Blackboard?** There are onboarding and timeline limitations while using a platform like this. There is also a learning curve, especially for people not used to modern technologies. **Recommendations to others considering Blackboard:** Please take time to learn the tool as well as possibly having expert guidance while implementing this tool **What problems is Blackboard solving and how is that benefiting you?** Online project and course collaborations for students. ### 41. Blackboard learn for the student **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 29, 2020 **What do you like best about Blackboard?** Blackboard is very organized and helpful with sharing of documents to the students. It is also good for communication of important announcements. **What do you dislike about Blackboard?** It takes a while to upload documents onto Blackboard Learn **Recommendations to others considering Blackboard:** Good for large groups **What problems is Blackboard solving and how is that benefiting you?** Solving the sharing of documents and communicating important messages ### 42. Your guide for lessons! **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Higher Education | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 25, 2019 **What do you like best about Blackboard?** It is a useful app for students and teachers. Teachers can share everything such as lecture notes, grades with their students and also students can discuss a topic by using Blackboard. **What do you dislike about Blackboard?** Mobile app works a bit slower and there is a problem with interface it is not attractive enough. **What problems is Blackboard solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have started t o use blackboard 2 months ago and when I have a question, I ask it on the discussion system then teacher answers it. ### 43. Blackboard is accessible for all **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rachel F. | Researcher, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 08, 2019 **What do you like best about Blackboard?** I like how easy it is to maneuver the site and find what I am looking for. **What do you dislike about Blackboard?** Sometimes the website goes down unexpectedly. **Recommendations to others considering Blackboard:** Definitely is a great site to use when wanting to view documents and communicate about them. **What problems is Blackboard solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is easier to view documents on this website ### 44. Students bests friend **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ba L. | Bi, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 29, 2019 **What do you like best about Blackboard?** Easy access, simple, on click on your phone or tab or where ever you choose to log in to. It gives you notifications that you won’t miss out on anything.it helped me during my school days **What do you dislike about Blackboard?** Sometime it does show grades, it can be because how the instructor. It shows grade for some courses but not for all, so I guess it is depends on how your instructors is doing with this platform **What problems is Blackboard solving and how is that benefiting you?** E learning, not printing of your class room slides ### 45. Amazing education tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 15, 2019 **What do you like best about Blackboard?** Blackboard is one of the most used educational platform used in academic institutions . I like how we can add numerous students and courses. It gives a medium to students and faculty to communicated with each other. Faculties can upload presentations and lectures for students access and conduct quizzes exams and assignments on it and upload the grades. **What do you dislike about Blackboard?** Blackboard app on phones and tablets need some updates. **Recommendations to others considering Blackboard:** Highly recommend it to universities and colleges who are trying to find a new instructional media. **What problems is Blackboard solving and how is that benefiting you?** A new instructional media. ### 46. Robust Offerings **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Education Management | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 22, 2019 **What do you like best about Blackboard?** I have always used Blackboard for every class that I teach. The features are useful for academics who are in the classroom. I use the SafeAssign feature a lot. **What do you dislike about Blackboard?** The downsides of Blackboard are that sometimes student work doesn't upload properly. Then I have to allow students to upload at a later time. It's inconvenient at times. It could be our servers however. **What problems is Blackboard solving and how is that benefiting you?** This eases the strain when I am traveling to a conference or have to cancel my classes. ### 47. Great and handy **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Denise A. | Deposits, Restaurants, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 18, 2019 **What do you like best about Blackboard?** Amazing program, easy to find stuff and love the push notifications on the app as stuff gets added **What do you dislike about Blackboard?** Dislike when stuff shows up but it is not ready to be displayed. **What problems is Blackboard solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easy on the go access ### 48. Fit to purpose **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ben G. | Senior Guest Services Assistant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 24, 2019 **What do you like best about Blackboard?** Blackboard is a wonderful tool to organise class timetables, reading lists, courses and other useful things all in one place **What do you dislike about Blackboard?** Sometimes it can be a bit slow and difficult to navigate. **What problems is Blackboard solving and how is that benefiting you?** Assignments are easy to keep in order. ### 49. Student review of BlackBoard Learn **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in E-Learning | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 27, 2019 **What do you like best about Blackboard?** BlackBoard Learn allows me fast and easy access to all of my courses. Right now, I am a full-time online-only student so accessibility is important. Blackboard Learn allows me to communicate daily with my professors and fellow students outside of email. The general layout is easy to read...basically everything that you need is at your fingertips. This is a must for all college students. **What do you dislike about Blackboard?** I have not came across anything that was of great distaste about BlackBoard Learn. **Recommendations to others considering Blackboard:** Blackboard Learn is a phenomenal tool and resource for online learning. Whether you're a full-time online-only student or split your classes to both campus and online...Blackboard Learn is definitely a staple for college life. **What problems is Blackboard solving and how is that benefiting you?** I don't solve any business problems with Blackboard Learn. I am a college student. Blackboard allows me the ease and accessibility that I need to pursue my education via E-Learning. ### 50. Blackboard Learn is not **Rating:** 2.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in E-Learning | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 27, 2019 **What do you like best about Blackboard?** It makes course (degree) completion a possibility for students with busy schedules or students living in remote areas. **What do you dislike about Blackboard?** There is limited access in editing pre-existing courses. It is also not intuitive to link pages from one section to another, which also makes it very difficult to edit existing pages that are already linked elsewhere. **What problems is Blackboard solving and how is that benefiting you?** It has made online learning a possibility for many students who are unable to attend classes. 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