Blackboard Learn for REST and LTI Developers
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Easy to keep track of grades and assignments, schedules, and a million other student resources!
What do you like best about the product?
I think what I like best is the dashboard where all of the most relevant information is highlighted and easily accessible.
What do you dislike about the product?
I never struggle to use it, there is nothing I dislike.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I use Blackboard as a student to access all of my class information easily and in order to stay on track with my classes, assignments, and professors.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you feel that you easily get overwhelmed with the amount of information to keep track of as a student or a professor, Blackboard easily keeps everything in one spot and is extremely user friendly.
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Simple and Easy
What do you like best about the product?
Blackboard allowed for easy assignment submission.
What do you dislike about the product?
The speed of the site was not always convenient.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It has helped to manage different classes distincly and without confusion.
Blackboard review
What do you like best about the product?
Blackboard's easy integration with Zoom! Students had no problem easily navigating to the links for our meetings.
The Communication feature is so helpful for sending out announcements to the whole class! I cannot imagine teaching without this, in online, Zoom, OR in-person modalities.
Some people complain about the layout's not being intuitive, but I do think it is extremely easy to use! I also love the ability to weight grades by creating categories for different assignments--I tend to use "low-stakes" assignments that, combined, comprise 50% of the grade, with perhaps three "high-stakes" assignments comprising the other 50%. Setting this up right at the beginning of the semester is easy (though I always have to review Blackboard tutorials to remember how to do it--it's not intuitive to FIND, necessarily). It's also crucial to remember, then, to change assignment categories when they are created: if you are using the "low-stakes" and "high-stakes" categories, you have to be careful because a journal assignment will automatically be created as "Journal" while a SafeAssign post will always be called an "Assignment"--mathematically, this can wreak havoc on scores unless you are very mindful of changing the categories to correspond with what you've created at the beginning of the course.
The Communication feature is so helpful for sending out announcements to the whole class! I cannot imagine teaching without this, in online, Zoom, OR in-person modalities.
Some people complain about the layout's not being intuitive, but I do think it is extremely easy to use! I also love the ability to weight grades by creating categories for different assignments--I tend to use "low-stakes" assignments that, combined, comprise 50% of the grade, with perhaps three "high-stakes" assignments comprising the other 50%. Setting this up right at the beginning of the semester is easy (though I always have to review Blackboard tutorials to remember how to do it--it's not intuitive to FIND, necessarily). It's also crucial to remember, then, to change assignment categories when they are created: if you are using the "low-stakes" and "high-stakes" categories, you have to be careful because a journal assignment will automatically be created as "Journal" while a SafeAssign post will always be called an "Assignment"--mathematically, this can wreak havoc on scores unless you are very mindful of changing the categories to correspond with what you've created at the beginning of the course.
What do you dislike about the product?
The Groups feature is so much more complicated than it needs to be. I worked extensively with tutorials as well as my tech support team to implement this in Fall 2020 to no avail.
The home page is pretty lousy. It doesn't at all give students any kind of incentive to interact--I hear much better things about Blackboard's competitor, Canva, and wish my school would subscribe to it! I wish I could somehow copy journal and discussion board prompts from one class to another: it is so much extra work to edit these posts then copy/paste them into the current class.
I wish weekly folders came pre-populated--it makes sense for every single class and would truly take away a TON of student questions about organization if Blackboard had this kind of consistency in every department and every academic discipline across the College.
At the end of the semester, I suddenly could not create any announcements or posts--and then I realized that, for some reason, the "Edit" button was toggled to "off." This must have happened automatically when classes had ended, but since most instructors continue to use Blackboard's announcement feature to communicate with students during finals week, this could be confusing with a less experienced user.
The home page is pretty lousy. It doesn't at all give students any kind of incentive to interact--I hear much better things about Blackboard's competitor, Canva, and wish my school would subscribe to it! I wish I could somehow copy journal and discussion board prompts from one class to another: it is so much extra work to edit these posts then copy/paste them into the current class.
I wish weekly folders came pre-populated--it makes sense for every single class and would truly take away a TON of student questions about organization if Blackboard had this kind of consistency in every department and every academic discipline across the College.
At the end of the semester, I suddenly could not create any announcements or posts--and then I realized that, for some reason, the "Edit" button was toggled to "off." This must have happened automatically when classes had ended, but since most instructors continue to use Blackboard's announcement feature to communicate with students during finals week, this could be confusing with a less experienced user.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Minimize the paper load; easier to grade assignments online! This has been crucial with remote learning! Students can "talk" to each other, do peer reviews/editing, and debate/discuss on the discussion boards. I use the journals for almost everything else, such as midterm self-evaluations, final grade proposals, and quick formative assessment. I do really appreciate the archiving of previous classes taught and the ability to easily copy assignments from one semester to the next! I feel very lucky that I had already familiarized myself with Blackboard and its features prior to the pandemic: my colleagues who never used it were truly scrambling to have a way to organize content and communicate with students, but mine had a fairly seamless adjustment!
Blackboard Learn
What do you like best about the product?
Blackboard is the industry standard. We have used it for years at the high school where I work and love it.
What do you dislike about the product?
Blackboard could benefit from some more interactive features, such as allow video posting with quiz inserts.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are teaching students to learn online before they get to college.
Decent program
What do you like best about the product?
Great way to share and access material. I also like that the application works on pc or Mac. Plus there is a phone version.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes material won’t show as posted in your feed for a few hours.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Sharing material and the other party being notified of it being posted.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
There are a bunch of features. Play around with them because they’re great.
User friendly and intuitive
What do you like best about the product?
One of the things I like best about Blackboard is that it is so widely used. That means that it's worth my while to get familiar with it, since almost any academic institution uses it. As an instructor, it's easy to post grades, send emails to individuals or the entire class, or post messages for the class. It's also easy to post material for the students.
What do you dislike about the product?
One thing that I dislike is that when a student emails me through Blackboard, I'm not able to reply to their email from Outlook. Instead, if I try to reply, it would send the message to Blackboard instead of the student. It's a minor inconvenience to either log into Blackboard and message the student back, or look up their university email to reply.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I am able to post course material, communicate information to students, and post grades all in one place. Students find it easy to use.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It's worth taking the time to learn the many features since Blackboard lets you do a lot of thing that are useful in teaching a class. Once you learn the organization on the home page, it's easy to find what you need.
An easy access hub
What do you like best about the product?
You have the ability to have all courses in one central location and at easy access from a mobile or desktop device
What do you dislike about the product?
The app is clunky, there are no notifications that are pushed to your phone
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
ability to have all contacts and resources in one place. Ability to access rosters and emails quickly
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you are primarily an app based user, you may have some difficulty since you cannot get to all the features on the app as you can on the desktop version
Good for School
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to use. Simple layout that allows for unflavored navigation.
What do you dislike about the product?
It does crash with high user capacity, but perhaps more a server problem than software problem.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Allows for professors to easily interact with students.
Easy to use services to provide a great platform for students
What do you like best about the product?
the ability to create groups, update students, utilize community functions, and keep track of assignments/contact reports
What do you dislike about the product?
the ability to completely customize the view to tailor it better to a program rather than a course.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Easier contact with my student team.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Utilize it for student communication - it makes a big difference in my team dynamics!
Adjunct
What do you like best about the product?
Easy grading, fast document upload, tabs I can add in
What do you dislike about the product?
Not being able to see exactly what students are seeing on one section.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
A way to interact with students
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