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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
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Year Founded
1988
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Boca Raton, FL
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@AnthologyInc
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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?

I like how organized my classes are through blackboard. I can view all of classes and their syllabi, assignments, grades, and other content posted from professors. I can also submit assignments and post comments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Blackboard?

I have not had any issues with blackboard. Your courses and their content disappear after they end, but this I think can be changed so that they do not. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I am able to have a place where all of my classes and their content can be posted in an organized way and viewed. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Blackboard?

I liked the organization of different courses I am enrolled in. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Blackboard?

I disliked plethora of information provided and it can be abstracted in a nice way. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We use Blackboard at UTDallas to manage everything related to academics such as courses, grades, assignment submissions, announcements. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Blackboard?

I like being able to see my grades from the app and being able to see any discussions, assignments, or work any teachers from my classes post. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Blackboard?

I don't like that the app and website are very cluttered. It takes a while to find what I'm looking for which is why I keep my use at a minimum. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Blackboard:

I recommend this service for any institution looking for an online based learning platform. It is feature rich, but if used at a minimum and aesthetics is more important then I suggest you look elsewhere such as google classroom. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I am able to easily view my grades from anywhere with this service and can easily turn work in. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Blackboard?

Mobile app works a bit slower and there is a problem with interface it is not attractive enough. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Blackboard?

I liked that I was able to easily access Blackboard on my computer as well as my phone if I was on the go. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Blackboard?

I didn’t like that there were so many maintenance alerts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

You are able to virtually learn and your professor is able to communicate to their entire attendance roll at the same time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Blackboard?

- The website itself is fairly simple and straight forward to use, with many different functionalities and tool for both teachers and students to use.

- Clean and simple user interface with clearly labeled functions and elements.

- Available on different platform such as PC, Mac, Android and iOS for better switching between devices.

- Include a lot of great learning functionalities such as discussion boards, notification center, calendars, its own test and exam platform...

- The ability to integrate with different APIs from different companies to extend its functionalities even further.

- Great team working functions such as video call, team board, contacts... Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Blackboard?

- Annoying lockdown function that automatically logs out user after 30 minute of inactivity. Please at least give me the option to change the amount of time before logging me out or prompt a check box to confirm if I want to log out or not.

- Does not have an autosave feature. I have many time lost my work in the process either because of network error or the site automatically log me out without saving my work first. Major annoyance.

- Notification should be organized by subject first, then chronological order to make it easier to keep track of and find. Also new notifications sometimes doesn’t show up in the control panel. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Blackboard:

If you can overcome the slight learning curve to fluently use the platform’s functions and spend some time to navigate them, you are going to appreciate the many applications and functionalities that it provide. The ability to integrate with other learning and teaching tools like McGraw Hill open up more possibilities for you. There are some quirks and pretty big annoyance such as the auto log out and the complete lack of autosave but these can be easily fixed in the future. This platform will help you simplify your learning and teaching experience and is a step in a good direction for the new age of modern education. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I am currently using Blackboard as a companion tool to study at George Brown College. This include receiving, viewing and archiving learning materials for every courses; receiving notifications and messages from instructors, professors and the School; tracking dates and time for various different events using the calendar function; collaborate with other students in my course, group and also with the professors; carry out group tasks using the group work functionalities. This website helps my everyday learning at the college and helps bringing pretty much any tools i needed for my study into one platform. When correctly implemented learning with Blackboard can be a lot of fun and can get a lot easier for me to get everything I need. This help me achieve better result in my study and simplify the process in doing so. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Blackboard?

Blackboard is a nice learning software to have all your classes in one location. I like how you can provide links in it and each class is customized to the professor's liking. There seem to be many features on this software that professors like to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Blackboard?

It could look better and be organized in a more concise fashion. The look is outdated and it seems as if everything is in the same font/style which is hard on the eyes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Blackboard:

Know how your professors set up each class. The software is customizable, so documents may be in different locations! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I appreciate that all my classes and their assignments etc. are located in one online portal. I would definitly say it helps me get better grades. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Blackboard?

We use Blackboard to facilitate training for our student workers. There are different modules based on how long they've been with us and their status, as well as areas we use to tell them how they're doing on attendance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Blackboard?

Accessibility can be an issue. I have trouble using it and making sure I have all the documents up in the right area. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Blackboard:

You have different statuses on Blackboard, and they all do different things. I can't add content, add/delete students and change the page all at once. Those things are done by the instructor, embedded librarian and administrator separately. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Training is being streamlined so it is more organized and easier for them to get refreshers when they need them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Blackboard?

Blackboard does have some great features. It is a great content management platform where it is very easy to manage course materials, manage full-time positions, and manage both your courses (from a student's end), and grade submissions (from an instructor's point of view). It is easy to access through both Windows and MacOS, and is good to have all things in one place. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Blackboard?

First, the blackboard app is horrible. It freezes, logs out when you don't want it to, and does not even support simple file formats. It is also impossible to access the side-tabs of the desktop mode to the app mode. In the Desktop mode, the layout is still very messed up with characters and tabs overlapping each other. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Blackboard:

Since it is one of the most widely used learning management systems out there, it is worth using Blackboard as your primary content or course manager. However, I would not pay for it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I have mixed feelings towards blackboard. Although I mostly use it because my organization uses it primarily, it does have some very helpful features in the field of management. A lot can be improved, for sure, but it still helps. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Blackboard?

BlackBoard is constantly being worked on. Every once in a while they'll send me an email and make sure I'm aware that BlackBoard is shut down for a certain amount of time (usually a few hours during the night), so that they can do updates. Because of this, BlackBoard has never glitched for me and is always easy to use. I have been using BlackBoard for my entire college career and it has never been a hassle. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Blackboard?

I think the only part of BlackBoard I dislike is the fact that you can't customize it too much. I'm on the page several hours most days and I would like if I had the option to choose more than just a few boring colors as my background. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Blackboard:

If you ever have any issues with using BlackBoard, reach out to the support team, which is usually your University's Tech Center. They are extremely knowledgable and helpful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

My online classes are completely through BlackBoard. I do my discussion posts on there, my quizzes, I can view my grades, I can email my professor directly through BlackBoard and much more. The benefit of BlackBoard is that everything is in one place. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.