Blackboard Learn for REST and LTI Developers
Blackboard Inc | 3900.93.0Linux/Unix, Ubuntu Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS (Focal Fossa) - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
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Blackboard Review
What do you like best about the product?
I like that I can now easily navigate to the classes that I have taken/am taking and find my grades and notifications easily from teachers and students.
What do you dislike about the product?
I dislike that sometimes the uploaded material for classes gets lost if the teacher doesn't know how to use the software. We have had to request that the information be reuploaded in some cases.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
This app is an easy way to distribute information between professors and students. It helps organzie all of the inforamtion in one place and is easily accessible.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Make sure that you work to understand the software before setting out to use it.
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Blackboard for Online College Courses
What do you like best about the product?
I like that my course material is organized and is easy to navigate. Blackboard has a place for contact information and sending messages directly through the software. That makes it easy and so you don't have to go into your email account and copy classmates information. The menu navigation is always available on the left hand side for easy searching.
What do you dislike about the product?
I wish you could open two parts of the app at the same time.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use Blackboard as a student. It helps me take courses in the evening online without having to go to campus.
Using blackboard as a professor
What do you like best about the product?
I love how Blackboard makes immediate changes. I can literally update course materials during class and my students can see it in real time. I also make assessments on Blackboard. These are relatively intuitive and it's nice that students can take assessments on their own time and grades will be posted directly to the gradebook.
What do you dislike about the product?
Formatting - I wish it was easier to get my courses and assessments to look nice. Formatting takes a lot of effort, so I don't usually use that feature. Gradebook - it's really difficult to scroll through the grade book. Also, it's nearly impossible on a Mac to use the gradebook interface.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Blackboard makes communication with users really simple.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Easy to use and great for communicating with students. The gradebook is hard to see and formatting is too onerous.
Good basic classroom option
What do you like best about the product?
I like that I can prep multiple pages, skip between pages, hide pages, and show pages as I want. I like that I can take a "picture" of anything on my desktop or online to immediately pull into my classroom. I also like utilizing the screen sharing tool as needed.
What do you dislike about the product?
Although the screen sharing tool is nice, there can be quite the lag in what I'm sharing if the other person's computer or internet is not ideal. There are "glitches" at times where my camera, which has worked for several hours, suddenly won't work if I turn if off and then on again. I have to restart my entire computer to make it work, and Blackboard sends an error message to itself.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use Blackboard to provide online therapy to students and to meet with team members and students' parents. It's a great way to video conference multiple people at once and share things in real time.
Team Blackboard
What do you like best about the product?
There are so many different applications within blackboard.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes it can be ab it overwhelming because there is indeed so much!
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
As educators we are always looking for more efficient ways to organize grades, classes, data, and student achievement. I have realized some positives with blackboard.
Blackboard
What do you like best about the product?
I like the organization of Blackboard, the setting options that are available for discussion boards, and the ability to add LTI's to your course. You are also able to manipulate the color scheme of Blackboard to customize it and make it fit with your organization. There is a date management tool that allows you to change all of the dates in the course with one click, instead of having to individually change all dates for assignments/quizzes/activities.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is a LOT going on with Blackboard, so sometimes things aren't easy to find or locate. Sometimes you have to manipulate activities in a way in order to make them work correctly. It is also hard to track user activity. We've had experiences where the only way we could test something/or check out a situation is logging in as a specific student. We don't have these permissions with Blackboard. This may be due to the administration rights provided by the school, but I am not positive. Another thing is that sometimes odd things will happen in Blackboard courses, that don't happen in other blackboard courses (when we copy content from one course to another) and it's difficult to figure out the reason why.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are bringing online education to schools with Blackboard. The benefit is that it is simple to learn and to use, and generally simple to teach to others. Students seem to be able to navigate Blackboard simply, and you can change the name of links to help them know exactly where to go. Blackboard allows a lot of customization that helps organize the course and enhance the learning experience.
Customize-able with a lot of great student features
What do you like best about the product?
I like the fact that Blackboard provides an easy way to interact with students. The messaging feature is helpful, and I can post various media in order to engage students in different ways.
What do you dislike about the product?
The editing features can be a bit "clunky" and non-intuitive at times. I found it very helpful to have someone in our IT department give me one-on-one training in order to determine the best way to utilize this for my students.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I used Blackboard to communicate with students on probation and to provide resources in many different categories of student success. Students were able to use this as a one-stop-shop to get handouts, app/website recommendations, etc. to address issues of time management, study skills, self-care, etc.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
There is a lot of functionality with Blackboard, but do your research and go through trainings in order to use it to the full extent. A poorly constructed Blackboard site can be very frustrating for students.
Simple Enough
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to use for anyone. I have used blackboard since my freshmen year at college and it has been very simple to use. I like the access to different categories, and how organized the tool bar is. I have been using it for a long time and they definitely have developed the software.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some tools are not so useful, and Maintenance time sometime interfere during submissions. The system sometimes is sensitive to clicks.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Easy access to all the assignments, grades and home work. We are able to go back to get papers anytime. All time access is amazing!
my blackboard review
What do you like best about the product?
I like the ability to access all my courses in one place. I do like the layout in some ways and I like notifications I receive.
What do you dislike about the product?
I dislike how hidden some features can be, and how far I have to search for some topics. It may just be because I have so much from different courses.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The benefit provided by Blackboard is an online learning community where people from all over can communicate and take part in classes that may be in different states or cities.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Set time aside to get used to it, give yourself a buffer period so you don't miss anything. Explore the website so you get a feel for it
Blackboard more than just for class shells.
What do you like best about the product?
Blackboard has so many great features available to it's users. Blackboard creates easy to use corse shells that allow professors to provide reading material, assign homework, administer tests and quizzes, along with providing practice questions. Additionally, Blackboard allows administrators the option to provide secure swipe card access to any and all buildings they see fit. For example, residence halls can only allow residents and staff of that building, while the library will only allow students in. This feature provides the necessary security students and parents want.
What do you dislike about the product?
Blackboard, like any online software, requires regular maintenance. However, it seems like blackboard requires more scheduled maintenance than any other software. Some time maintenance was scheduled multiple times in one month, thus limiting the time students could work on their classes. Additionally these outages usually affect external card swipe door accesses, thus preventing anyone from entering a building.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Blackboard helps fix multiple issues, with one simple software. Blackboard provides classroom course shells while also providing door security.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you're just looking for one feature or multiple, Blackboard may have ahave thesolution for you.
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