Blackboard Learn

Avantages

Blackboard is very easy to navigate and use as a student.

Inconvénients

Communication is not as efficient as other programs.

Avantages

Blackboard is fairly easy to use and is easy to onboard with. It is familar to most students and professors.

Inconvénients

Some of my least favorite features included the limits on customizability of the course features (such as colors) and the clunky UI.

Avantages

I must admit wrestling with Blackboard in 2015 when first encountered, but I've learned it to be reliable and fairly simple to use. Everything about it makes sense and navigation is easy. The system does the math for accurate grade recording and stores information for as long as needed in order to verify work submitted and grades recorded.

Inconvénients

My least favorite thing was being thrust into Blackboard initially after using only Moodle. Our school offered some group training and I took advantage of several help sessions, too. The systems are different, but I believe Blackboard to be superior in every way.

Avantages

Blackboard Learner is a valuable platform for training and teaching. The access is easier and it provides a great experience of online learning.

Inconvénients

Very compact and nicely designed system of online learning

Avantages

Announcements and features are easy to do.

Inconvénients

Too many steps to erase content I feel confused at times

Alternatives envisagées 

Canvas

Pourquoi passer à Blackboard Learn

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Avantages

Blackboard is an easy to use learning management system that eases the stress of juggling college courses for the student and professor both. Blackboard is easy to format, and very conducive to discussion between professors and students via the discussion board or the other tools provided.

Inconvénients

When I was a college freshman, it was one of the first years my university used Blackboard. This caused a slight learning curve between the professors as they used the website the first year, which they asked for patience for. This is understandable, however, and in my sophomore-senior year the professors had a firm grasp of the program and it was not an issue.

Avantages

Easy to use and onboard users, especially beginners.

Inconvénients

Folder system can be a little tedious at times.

Avantages

Easy to create tests and assessments and grading them. Things were laid out and easy to find.

Inconvénients

Looks old and outdated. Needs to be cleaner and conscise.

Alternatives envisagées 

Canvas

Avantages

Blackboard Learn allows me to track the progress of the students. If one of my students is falling behind on an assignment, it notifies me then I would contact the student about their missing assignment. These are the features that I like the most about Blackboard Learn.

Inconvénients

Blackboard Learn does not handle large file sizes well. There was an incident where a student of mine couldn't hand in an assignment due to their file size being too big. Following that event, the student had to send me their assignment via email. Blackboard Learn should increase its file size limit in order to prevent this from happening again.

Avantages

É uma plataforma bem completa e intuitiva.

Inconvénients

Poderia haver uma ferramenta para monitoramento dos cursos.

Avantages

I liked that you could set it to send reminders about when upcoming assignments were due. It was very helpful from that perspective.

Inconvénients

I thought the user interface was clunky and needed work. It was sometimes hard to navigate and there would often be times where students would have to ask how to do something in the platform.

Avantages

With an established ecosystem and many tools available, Blackboard is my go to LMS for schools and other educational institutions

Inconvénients

Blackboard is a bit pricey, however you get a polished piece of software.

Alternatives envisagées 

Canvas, Absorb LMS et Schoology

Logiciel antérieur 

Google Classroom et Moodle

Avantages

Everything is in one space - lots of tools - the sky is really the limit.
I also like the Best Practice parts of the help site - it helps you to get ideas of how you can use the tools.

Inconvénients

In terms of support from Blackboard, sometimes the person who receives the inquiry do not read properly or English is a second language because we often have to explain again and again before they understand - that is the only frustration I currently have with the support.

It is unfortunately a very expensive product since the institutions are not based in the USA and therefore we are subjected to the exchange rate.

Avantages

I like the advertisements they did in the past, everyone knew how expensive and famous it was.

Inconvénients

They did not innovate, they both a lot of little competitors and lately they are selling them because that strategy has lost again more innovative platforms and cheaper.

Alternatives envisagées 

Canvas, Moodle et Brightspace

Pourquoi passer à Blackboard Learn

We had it for long time because most important universities had it but we had to stop using it, the support was getting bad, no innovation and other platforms were cheaper enough to pay the migration process.

Avantages

Blackboard has been AMAZING for organizing my online classes. I take 4 online classes a semester and I would be a mess if I didn't have blackboard reminding me of what needs done and making it super easy. Its very easy to upload my assignments and see whats due when it's due. Everything about it is SUPER easy and organized so I can focus all my energy on my school work.

Inconvénients

I still can't figure out how to export my due dates to my calendar. I'm not sure if you even can, but I can't find any support on it. I don't like how I can't change the names of my courses and Ive had 3 courses that I dont take anymore still showing up and can't get them to disappear.

Avantages

It has a big amount of features and it's easy to use as a learner at the university. There are also interesting collaborative functions.

Inconvénients

I think it might be difficult for young learners, so I don't think is suitable for higher education.

Avantages

Whenever the professors are knowledgeable of the software, they make use of all the features and organize the content of the course in an excellent manner. Blackboard's features allows the class (professor and fellow students) to be interconnected.

Inconvénients

I have heard from elderly professors about the difficulty of adding material in BB. This is evident in the fact that sometimes the course documents and syllabi are mixed in different sections.

Avantages

As a instructor blackboard lets me integrate a lot of different types of media through Kaltura, structure time released content ,vary assessments, and deliver individualized learning opportunities. All of these elements are crucial to my instruction. As a student, I get mobile access and notifications about grades, announcements, and course changes that help me manage my learning.

Inconvénients

While the features are wonderful, they are somewhat convoluted to properly utilize, requiring more steps than I would like, and can sometimes be "hidden" in such ways that I have to refer back to user guides because it's not a very intuitive integration. Therefore, as a student, I find many of my professors do not fully take advantage of the learning management system because they have limited knowledge.

Avantages

I have found it easy to use and easy to get used to. I like the value that it brings to the educational experience.

Inconvénients

It's not the most modern product. That being said all the tools exist once you get used to it and find them.

Alternatives envisagées 

Canvas

Avantages

It is easy to add content. I like the way the "Plan" (calendar) is set up better than Canvas.

Inconvénients

You are unable to copy content, announcements, assignments and quizzes from one course to another. An administrator must do it.

Avantages

Facilidade de navegação dentro do site, além de ser muito interativo.

Inconvénients

Ainda não encontrado algo que não atinja minhas expectativas.

Avantages

Love how organized everything is, the ability to show weights for each assignments, tab placements make sense

Inconvénients

Teachers often do not organize things best, maybe offer some better tutorials for them

Avantages

I prefer Blackboard Learn over other software that I have used in the past and recent events. The simplicity of the system ensures that it is easy to use for all generations, teacher and student, and all of those in between.

Inconvénients

Right now, I do not think there is anything I would change.

Alternatives envisagées 

Canvas

Pourquoi choisir Blackboard Learn 

Ability for users to understand the program.

Logiciel antérieur 

Canvas

Pourquoi passer à Blackboard Learn

How easy Blackboard learn was to use compared to other softwares.

Avantages

great platform to upload and view assignments as well as converse with professors and view grades

Inconvénients

very glitchy at times. when the program worked it worked well but when it glitched, it was hard to maneuver.

Avantages

It was very user friendly software that allowed me to manage hybrid and online courses. It was as simple to use as Wordpress.

Inconvénients

Integration with Safe Assign could be a bit clunky at times.