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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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Year Founded
1988
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Boca Raton, FL
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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?

Love the way Blackboard is always looking to improve their product and are will to listen to user suggestions through their Community site. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Blackboard?

The only downside is we haven't moved tto Ultra yet and I know that not all of our faculty and not going to like the idea of change. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Ultimately, the move to Ultra is going to help our faculty maintain ADA compliance even more than Ally currently does. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Blackboard?

Its accessibility. Vision Ireland is Ireland's national sight loss charity. Digital accessibility is essential to us and we use Blackboard as our LMS because it of how accessibilt the platform and course content is to users with disabilities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Blackboard?

Navigating to the course catalogue to browse available courses / enrol in a course could be made more straighforward. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It is providing an accessible virtual learning environment for service users and staff of Vision Ireland to avail of a wide variety of courses. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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My favorite part of Blackboard is connecting those that hold the knowledge and experience (instructors) to learners, with no bounds of distance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Blackboard?

If I had to pick something I disliked, the inability to bulk edit points in Ultra, at the moment. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Some assessment capabilities that are only available with certain add-ons.. it sounds like some of that will be streamlined in our favor soon. Excited about it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Blackboard?

Ease of use, and usable by anyone without any deep experience in technology or programming. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Blackboard?

Sometimes there is a drop in the Blackboard web page loading, also in Ultra Collaborate recording, there is no "Pause" button that makes many recording files appear for one session. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

In the supporting language (Arabic) there are some problems such as printing the student's attempt in the exam as well as in the preview of the assignment attached files. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Blackboard?

Blackboard is great for providing resources. Whether a class or organization, you can publish material and even communicate with the audience through blackboard. It is well integrated with email system so, emails are delivered to you promptly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Blackboard?

It is very prone to glitches. it is often very slow and makes it hard to use especially the mobile app Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It provides a way to communicate with a specific group of people, providing them with tools and resources. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Clearly set out and very accessible features Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Blackboard?

I find the marking rubrics hard to work with Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Communicating clearly with students in one place and ensuring they have easy access to high quality teaching and learning materials. You still have some way to go to provide useful learning analytics such as those I can access from talis elevate about student learning and interaction with assessment feedback. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Blackboard?

It creates a safe space for our learners, providing the academics with most of the tools needed to develop engaging learning materials. Being cloud-based, customer support is great, timely and provides regular updates to ensure the learner experience is pararmount. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Blackboard?

It looks and feels somewhat dated, and whilst it provides some tools to "spruce" up the interface, it still looks a little old fashioned, especially compared to a lot of the tools currently out there. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It's a "one-stop shop" for all things based around learning, providing our students with a single platform they need, rather than having to go to various different spaces. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Blackboard?

Easy to learn and easier to use. It is also easy to reuse your course materials or share contect with colleagues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Blackboard?

It isn't as easy to make your page look as visually appealing as it once was. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It helps us communicate class materials Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Blackboard?

I love the opportunities to set up courses to best meet the needs of students. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Blackboard?

I really like it.There's really nothing that I don't like. It's great! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

It is helping me set up and design my classes to better meet the needs of my students. I'm excited about all the new developments especially with AI use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Blackboard?

The ease of design and space to develop and curate my content. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Blackboard?

There is nothing that I dislike that is worth writing about. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Easy curation of my class content Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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