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Blackboard Overview

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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?

Blackboard was simple to use and straight forward with learning. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Blackboard?

When I was using it the features weren't as updated as they are today, but with the advancements I've seen I don't see a downside! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

I think the innovation with how faculty can assist students through data analytics pulled is wonderful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Blackboard?

Most helpful was has been the ease of use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Blackboard?

The least helpful thing may have been the insight reporting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

The problem that BlackBoard is solving is flexibility for field employees to have access to a learning management system without having to be authenticated into the system through government means. Not answering. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Blackboard?

I like the ability to create the folder structure to make my content organized. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Blackboard?

Sometimes the courses links break when courses are copied over. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We use Blackboard to deliver content to all of our learners. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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I like that the company is working on developing the system consistenty and also listening to their clients. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Blackboard?

Not really a dislike but there are still features that we need. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Now that we are transitioning to Ultra, we love that Anthology is consistently developing the features we need. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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The best thing about Blackbaord is Ultra. It is easy to use and student centered by promoting consistency with faculty and staff, Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Blackboard?

I really wish that that images, icons, and banners could be resized more, The sizing defaults is very limiting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Working on improving groups in Ultra. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Blackboard?

Blackboard Lean typically offers aUser-Friendly Interface that makes it easy for both instructors and students to navigate the platform. I liked the new updte that called ULTRA Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Blackboard?

the way that the course mangment tools are listed now has many options that cunfuse the instractors to find what they need

I found it a challeng for some instrators to know the deifrance beetwen what they can see and what the students can see Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Blackboard Learn helps to ensure that educational materials are accessible to students This is particularly beneficial for our students who need accommodations Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Blackboard?

The most helpful thing about Blackboard learn are the videos that can help students quickly problems solve how to use technology on their own. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Blackboard?

Sometimes it is hard to scroll down the long list of topics when you're searching for a resource. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Blackboard, learn, help students find answers to easy to solve problems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Blackboard?

I think Anthology has been super responsive to customer feature needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Blackboard?

Blackboard still lags behind in its feature set compared to other top LMSs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Blackboard provides a robust environment for instructors to teach students online. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Blackboard?

They listen to their customers via the idea exchange Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Blackboard?

It has taken a while for it to get up to speed with the other LMS companies, but it is getting there! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

LMS for our student body - primarily used for online and adult education courses. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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