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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
HQ Location
Boca Raton, FL
Twitter
@AnthologyInc
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4,691 employees on LinkedIn®
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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?

I have used blackboard for years and like the versatility it has in regards to classroom tools. There are various ways to upload content and have students upload as well. The best part is the turnitin feature. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Blackboard?

Blackboard is not very user friendly and requires a lot of calls to customer help. Even then, things do not get solved right away. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The benefit is that multiple students can be on the server at once. It is also helpful to put everything electronically in one place for a class. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Blackboard?

Easy to access my courses and turn in assignments online. Can see grades and participate in discussions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Blackboard?

The layout of the homepage, images would be nice for clicking on classes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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You can upload assignments directly from your computer and easily see grades as soon as they are added. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Submit assignments, see grades, access my classes anywhere. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Blackboard?

Blackboard is a great tool for use in a university setting, allowing you to create fully customisable course pages and to monitor use of resources and assessment submission. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Blackboard?

While the interface is fairly easy to use, it is a little clumsy at times. Changes don't always save. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Blackboard:

Get to know how blackboard works, especially within your own industry, before you roll it out. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Blackboard makes it easy to coordinate large university courses and to provide students with resources/information. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Blackboard?

The best part I like is the they way we can learn from it... Its really amazing if any body really want to learn something Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Blackboard?

Dislike some lengthy videos I would prefer to the pint things Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Blackboard:

You must spend sometime in it it's really helpful dude.. Just held it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It has make me do more in my field! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Blackboard?

Easy to use, gradebook updates quickly, more features than you’d ever need. Best choice for universities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Blackboard?

Sometimes links can be buried - requiring lots of clicks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Manage student communication, grades & discussion boards all in one place. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Blackboard?

It is very flexible in letting you create your course structure and grading system. It allows you to set automated dates of deploying/concluding the course or you can go with the normal semester dates and forget about it. The concluded courses can be saved to the corporate drive or can be exported to your own archive. When you post announcements, it deploys instantaneously online and via email, and you can include a link to files that might pertain to the announcement. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Blackboard?

It is counter-intuitive and has a sharp learning curve. No visual help is provided and feels old-school. Every time you want to activate the course and customize it, it's painful because over the year you tend to forget the path you must take, and it is a PATH, like digging through the multiple hierarchy settings of an old phone. It should be starring you in the face, in visual format, no in a tree-expanding format! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Blackboard:

It is a good choice, but there may more modern looking/easier to use alternatives out there. At any rate, if the price is right, this is a solid system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Keeps the class well informed and you can share documents and various other files with the class. You can track how many users accessed the resources you provided. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Blackboard?

I like the way how they are able to put together a lot of things in one single platform without messing things up. This web service is neat. Even the mobile app version is very user-friendly. You need very zero prior knowledge to get along with this tool. It is a great place to keep your students updated about their progress in their classes. I am a Ph.D. student working as a TA. I can check my progress on my graduate courses on Blackboard. At the same time, I can also manage the Labs that I am teaching. I can notify my students, manage their grades all on the same platform. Moreover, the security is very good in this tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Blackboard?

There is nothing I dislike about blackboard. However, they can improve the GUI on their Android app version. The downloadable version of the grade section can be improved as well. Whenever I try to download my students' grades on a spreadsheet, it gets a bit messy. But that can be excused. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Blackboard:

It is a very good tool that can be used for academic purposes. I will highly recommend this product to all the Universities and College programs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

In the University of Arkansas, all enrolled students and faculties use Blackboard. This serves as a digital interface between the students and faculties. If a class gets cancelled, professors can notify students using Blackboard. The app version allows the students to get notifications instantly. Students can check their assessments using Blackboard. I normally use this platform to grade homework and lab reports of my students. They can submit their reports using blackboard as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ellen N.
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What do you like best about Blackboard?

Very easy to navigate through the system Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Blackboard?

There were no downsides. The software is very user friendly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Blackboard:

I highly recommend this product for LMS Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Grading, assignments, information Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Seung G.
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Instructional Designer
E-Learning
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What do you like best about Blackboard?

I don't have much things to say about Blackboard. It is not that user-friendly. I used it for more than 8 years. It is dated and I tested ultra and I don't think it is ready to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Blackboard?

Every extra service they charge such as user data and analytics. Canvas and D2L don't. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Blackboard:

I rather use Canvas or D2L. They don't communicate well with user compare to other LMS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We use for learning management system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nicolas H.
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Instructional Technology Coordinator
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What do you like best about Blackboard?

I have been using Blackboard for education since version 5. Blackboard do a lot of updates and improvement to product. I like that this learning management system is very useful friendly and straightforward to learn for both students and instructors . A lot of options for instructors to choose from like creating blogs , journals , wikis and discussions boards for students all in one place. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Blackboard?

Blackboard do a lot of updates sometimes an update may create a bug and need another update to fix! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Blackboard:

I recommend that survey their users for needs and then implement a trial period in order to reach a final decision if this is the right consideration for them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Blackboard has been the solution of enrolling a large number of students in online courses . It has a good integration with registration software were students are automatically (may take up to 24hrs due to snapshot) enrolled in blackboard course shells after registration . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.