Blackboard Learn for REST and LTI Developers
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My love/hate relationship with this product
What do you like best about the product?
Blackboard is a highly complete LMS. It can do pretty much anything you want and lets you customize the system to suit your teaching style, communication requirements, and grading criteria. As an instructor, I use it to send announcements, post weekly online reading quizzes, foster communication with students, post lecture slides, labs, useful links, and keep track of grades and student progress. It's pretty much "one-stop shopping" for my educational needs.
Another thing I like about it is its support for third-party integrations that allow best of breed products to pick up where Bb leaves off. I use the TurningPoint clicker in my classroom and their integration permits a seamless student registration experience.
Another thing I like about it is its support for third-party integrations that allow best of breed products to pick up where Bb leaves off. I use the TurningPoint clicker in my classroom and their integration permits a seamless student registration experience.
What do you dislike about the product?
Blackboard suffers from some serious design and usability problems. It's obvious they put a lot of effort into making it easy to use, but it seems they've missed the mark in several key areas. I'm sure that a complete redesign and UX upgrade would be an expensive undertaking but it would be well worth it if they want to dominate in the LMS space.
Another problem I have with Bb is that it tries to be all things to all educators and institutions. The result is a fragmented software package that feels over-featured at times and doesn't seem to do any one particular thing well. I realize that that's not the case, but I think Bb would benefit from deprecating features. That said, it does allow me to hide features from students.
Another problem I have with Bb is that it tries to be all things to all educators and institutions. The result is a fragmented software package that feels over-featured at times and doesn't seem to do any one particular thing well. I realize that that's not the case, but I think Bb would benefit from deprecating features. That said, it does allow me to hide features from students.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Keeping students up to date on class announcements, posting slides, syllabi, labs, and grades. The biggest benefit is that it's a centralized location to keep all class-related information. Since I don't like the idea of fragmenting my students' experience by sending them to different apps for different purposes, I appreciate Bb's consolidation. I just wish it did the job a little more elegantly.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I've never been able to use another LMS so I'm afraid I don't have anything to compare Bb to. I will say that it's very complete in its capabilities, and worth the learning curve.
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Awesome product that helps keep life organized
What do you like best about the product?
The fact that the pages are so clean and easy to read
What do you dislike about the product?
The fact that sometimes it is difficult to navigate
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
solving the issue of having my whole team on the same page and collaborating
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I highly recommend using it as setup is very easy as well
Perfect for students and faculty
What do you like best about the product?
It is very simple to use, and a great place to store materials for students and staff alike
What do you dislike about the product?
A little awkward to navigate around the site at times
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Has submission time stamps. Is a very hady place for staff to upload class powerpoints, assignments etc. Has a built in plagiarism checker. Allows students to access materials at any time.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Very helpful in an educational setting. Easy and helpful to use for faculty and students. Takes some getting used to the navigation side, but worth it
Useful for managing classroooms, but functionality can get clunky
What do you like best about the product?
Blackboard allows teach and student view, to allow the teacher to view the website and access as a student. It provides one place for messaging, grades, and assignments. It lets you create subgroups to further divide a class. It produces grade reports and statistics. Almost everything is customizable if you want it to be.
What do you dislike about the product?
In order to use some of the more advanced features it can take some searching in the menus. There is definitely a learning curve to creating and posting assignments or quizzes, as well as accessing the specific views for grades and class performance. Often, there are many features an average professor will not need to access, and it can weight down the software but just adding to menus and screens you must wade through to find what you need.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I've used blackboard to run and manage undergraduate classes. It has given me an easy way to create weekly quizzes within the software and administer them to the students. In very large classes, blackboard has been helpful to keep track of students and monitor their progress in the class. I have also used blackboard as a student.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you are going to use blackboard a lot, for multiple classes it is worth suffering the learning curve of where things are at and how to do them efficiently.
Blackboard Learning Management System
What do you like best about the product?
Blackboard has many good uses. For me, I enjoy being able to submit assignments and develop quizzes that can be completed through the program. I also like how the program puts everything thing you need in one location for each class, including calendars, notes from teachers, direct access to email to teachers and other students, grades, video, audio, and specific assignments.
What do you dislike about the product?
I am sure they are working on getting the glitches out, but the system is often having do go down for updates on a regular basis. I also dislike how the system can be very sensitive at times and if you accidentally click off of an assessment or lose internet connection, you have to get the test restarted.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
This program helps to put everything in one location. It also helps to eliminate the use of many sheets of paper and it helps to eliminate unnecessary meetings for one on one meetings.
Support Robust Teaching & Learning with Veteran LMS
What do you like best about the product?
Blackboard is a well-established learning management system with a long history of commitment to teaching & learning. The LMS offers a wide range of features and tools to support personalized learning and customized delivery of content, communication, and assessment.
What do you dislike about the product?
The interface is starting to show its age and sometimes it take a few extra clicks (vs. drag/drop) to get things done. Data isn't always accessible without the right tools to query or license to extract. However, recent roadmap presentations reveal some promising developments
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We're reducing our need to print out class materials by going green and posting documents in course shells. We're also meeting a parking problem by offering hybrid courses so classes can share physical space. Finally, we're reaching out to students who want to go to our campus, but can't because it's too far away, by offering online classes. Blackboard site is hosted, so we are benefiting from a very stable environment.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Speak often with your Customer Success Advocate, who is there to help ensure your institution benefits from all the resources, tools, and services associated with your contract and the Blackboard community at large. Take or teach a class that uses Blackboard and understand the role of the LMS in ensuring student success. Join your local Blackboard Users Group and ask questions, get feedback, and network with others in the community. Don't be afraid to open tickets or ask other Blackboard users for ideas and support.
As both a teacher and a student - Blackboard works for me
What do you like best about the product?
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.
What do you dislike about the product?
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.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Delivery, use, and monitoring, of educational services for students.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Make sure you explore the user guides and options, blackboard can be a powerful tool but some of it's features are less than obvious!
Great platform for course content management.
What do you like best about the product?
As an educator and a student pursuing an advanced degree, Blackboard is essential for long-distance course content management and discussion.
What do you dislike about the product?
I dislike the lag in the time it takes to upload documents.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
This solves the problem of a lack of collaboration platform.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
I would recommend trying other like platforms before deciding on Blackboard, as there may be other features provided by other platforms.
I feel like they update this too much
What do you like best about the product?
I like the fact that we can chat with our students, and I enjoy that we can upload files and see how they'll look to our students.
What do you dislike about the product?
I don't like how often they update the interface. It feels like as soon as you learn how one interface looks and works oh woop there's the new one. And you have to start all over again.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It helps me teach and interact with my students. It helps me keep a classroom online.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Keep in mind, they're going to change their interface. Is it worth it to you to have to learn it all over again?
Well-equipped LMS with great functionality
What do you like best about the product?
Even if Blackboard's LMS doesn't have the built-in features you are looking for, it offers a great flexibility in allowing you to develop or purchase from other developers the tools that you need. When Blackboard realizes that a tool is in high demand, they look to integrating it with their existing platform. Blackboard makes it easy to use these tools to provide a valuable learning experience to students who might not be able to make it to face-to-face classes, which is important for those who live in rural areas.
What do you dislike about the product?
The interface is not the most user-friendly. It could be cleaner and more efficient, and easier to learn. A training/tutorial system is required to get the most out of Blackboard. Everything takes longer than it should, and can be quite frustrating for users to learn.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are currently solving the problem of having lots of students enrolled in different systems to take classes from the same University system. Blackboard has offered us a simple solution that has saved us money and made the learning process more efficient and streamlined for students.
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