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What is Blackboard?

As learner lifestyles change, you need an inclusive, flexible, and insightful LMS to provide engaging educational experiences and meet the needs of learners from all backgrounds. Strategically focused on making instructors more effective and efficient, Blackboard® is pioneering the use of AI to inspire and streamline the course-building process, has new flexible grading tools that make grading less grating, and provides in-line insights that make it easier to identify and engage with students who need support. And with the fastest rate of product development on the market, we're just getting started. Powered by a community of millions of learners, instructors and administrators across more than 70 countries, Blackboard is designed in collaboration with educators, and truly is the LMS for modern teaching and learning. Visit Anthology.com/learn to see what’s new. 

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Blackboard is a scalable, reliable foundation for a world-class learning experience. Our flexible learning platform enables you to extend online learning, increase engagement and optimize learning outcomes.


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Anthology
Company Website
Year Founded
1988
HQ Location
Boca Raton, FL
Twitter
@AnthologyInc
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LinkedIn® Page
www.linkedin.com
4,691 employees on LinkedIn®
Phone
800.483.9106
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Anthology delivers education and technology solutions so that students can reach their full potential and learning institutions thrive. Millions of students around the world are supported throughout their education journey via Anthology’s ecosystem of flagship SaaS solutions and supporting services, including the award-winning Blackboard® (LMS), Anthology® Student (SIS/ERP), and Anthology® Reach (CRM). Through the Power of Together, we are uniquely inspiring educators and institutions with innovation that is meaningful, simple and intelligent to help customers redefine what’s possible and create life-changing opportunities for people everywhere. www.anthology.com.


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What do you like best about Blackboard?

Here, my university has been using this LMS from last many years till 2021, The tool is very good with the integrated online class portal, assessment was also smooth. The safe-assign feature works well to check plagiarism. The study content uploading is also a Breeze. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Blackboard?

Sometimes it's difficult to get the actual location of the desired task due to the complexity of it. As our university spread so much it was difficult to get resolutions for the rapidly assisted problems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Blackboard solving and how is that benefiting you?

Making the assessment and class conduct easier Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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 Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Blackboard?

Understandable and easy to access and high level knowledge Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Blackboard?

There is nothing to dislike but it's interface could be made more attractive Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Blackboard solving and how is that benefiting you?

Can access and manage my things properly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Blackboard?

The platform itself is robust and reliable which is what's required for any institution but the best thing about Blackboard Learn is that you really feel that the development team listen to their customers and many new features are a direct result of what the community is looking for and is directly influenced by the way that the customers use the product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Blackboard?

I think the biggest thing we get complaints about is the availability of certain features - which may actually be available - but we can't switch on because it's a universal decision. For example, very few of our courses would benefit from 3 folder levels, but the large majority we wouldn't want them to have them (as the staff then bury content). It would be nice to have the granularity.

We also have to try to persuade our IT Services to switch some things on - for example, wiki's are no longer available but we can't enable the sharing a document from Word to fix this problem due to permissions that our IT Services aren't willing to unblock. As such, we can't release the 'share/collaborate documents from Office 365 feature which is heavily relied on for some things. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Blackboard solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are branching into entirely online programmes for the first time and the features within Blackboard are enabling us to start designing in a well structured and supported way. Knowing that the product works globally and has fantatsic 'up' time is a real benefit considering that we may have students from different time-zones and unreliable internet connections. It means they can take part when they are able to. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Blackboard?

I have not used it before however I plan to use it shortly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Blackboard?

As I have mentioned earlier I plan to practice it then I will decide what are the possible dislikes of it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Blackboard solving and how is that benefiting you?

I think it wil benefit me in deciding the proper assessment to use with my students Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Blackboard?

I really enjoyed how simple it was to learn, implement, and navitate. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Blackboard?

There weren't as many features as other similar softwares, and had less ingegration with outside apps. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Blackboard solving and how is that benefiting you?

Having training all in one spot and easy to track. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Blackboard?

Blackboard Ultra Course View is the best thing since sliced bread, especially with the latest updates. It really is an entirely new LMS that blows Original Bb courses out of the water. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Blackboard?

Speaking only for my organization, Blackboard original course view is like COVID-19 - it won't seem to go away because people are carrying it around with them. I wish we could get a date to phase it out entirely. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Blackboard solving and how is that benefiting you?

Blackboard Learn is a place to store data, run reports, host synchronous and asynchronous courses, and maintain institutional organizations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sam B.
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What do you like best about Blackboard?

Blackboard Learn is probably one of the beefiest LMSes on the Market, before Ultra. It has an immense amount of customization ability and administrator options that really allows you to make it your own. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Blackboard?

The SaaS Release Schedule, at least once a month my site breaks. Database locks, it's just left a bad taste in our mouths. It feels archaic, even looking at Ultra, it just doesn't feel intuitive anymore. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Blackboard solving and how is that benefiting you?

Blackboard Learn really just solves the issue of having a platform where Faculty can easily distribute documents and grading so we can easily pull them for reporting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Blackboard?

Blackboard Learn can be customised according to the need of different educational institutions. You can use tools that make it easy to collaborate with students. It has so many assessment tools , such as tests, assignment . You can choose in this software whether you want to grade these tests manually or automatically Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Blackboard?

Some institutions find this software expensive, in result it restricts it's accessibility for small schools or organisation you can experience technical glitches and issues while using blackboard learn which can cause disturbance in learning. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Blackboard solving and how is that benefiting you?

Blackboard learn helps institutions or organization in solving business problem by providing a platform for online education and training programs.it can be a good platform for providing online education to students with scheduling tests and daily assignments to students. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Blackboard?

it provides so many varieties of built-in web-based tools like e-portfolio, wikis, and blogs that professors and students can use to create their content. it makes it easy to upload online papers, Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Blackboard?

the mobile feature of blackboard learn is rudimentary and inconsistent. its android version creates an issue. navigation also creates issues sometimes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Blackboard solving and how is that benefiting you?

As a professor, it mainly helps me to make the assignments for my students and also helps me to make proper grading management and distribution. in this I can easily upload papers and distribute them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.