Blackboard Learn for REST and LTI Developers
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One Stop Solution for your L&D Need
What do you like best about the product?
The simple yet powerful features that enables to deliver different training programmes built either on Ultra or Original having third party tool integrated with LTIs without having any lags. The most recent AI Design Assist plays a very significant role in our rapid build process. Not to mention their outstanding support as well.
What do you dislike about the product?
The system limitation of user access to courses makes the UI slow, which is the only flaw as per our user cases.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Being a large university, our number of students keeps growing at a pace of 20% and so does our training programmes. Our delivery method are defined to create multiple classes of the same course, these classes ranges anywhere from 50-300. Using their internal Integration feature, we could easily able to run the copy process and the system takes it all. This is by far the best thing that ever happen to us.
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Worked well in a small course setting
What do you like best about the product?
The fact that it was able to intergrate with platforms we were already using.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes it was not user friendly, at times it was difficult to manuever some of the technical aspects.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Allowing our team to learn together when not in the same space
AtlanticCape Adjunct Faculty Review (EdL)
What do you like best about the product?
Access to 'Messages' without having to open a specific course section. This enables me to see at-a-glance if a student has messaged me.
What do you dislike about the product?
The removal of the forwarding of individual messages in the Course Messages section to my email acocunt (external to Blackboard).
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Communication/Learning online with students unable to access in-person learning.
The Standard in Learning Management Systems
What do you like best about the product?
Blackboard Learn in the app format is a rather seamless and robust application that allows for utilizing a mobile platform to access the content of the Blackboard learning managmenet system. It runs on multiple mobile platforms including iOS and Android, and works very well. All necessary options for utilizing the Blackboard LMS are available in the Learn app. This app is also easy to find in either the App Store or Google Play store and installs quickly.
What do you dislike about the product?
As for drawbacks to the application, there are not many. From an instructor perspective, since the mobile interface is different from the desktop, it takes a while to get familiar with it so that the same content can be found. Navigation may also take a bit longer due to learning where options are, however this will improve with continued use.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Blackboard Learn solves the problem of mobility. I am able to review details about submissions and manage student performance without being tied to a desktop computer. By leveraging self-graded assignments, I can spend more time helping students to improve their learning and focus on the scored results.
Esiest platform for blended teaching
What do you like best about the product?
Whether you teach in a classroom or fully remote or something in-between Blackboard is an essential tool for grading and communicating with your students. Need a place for group meetings, live video, and collaboration-Blackboard has that too. It is the all-in one communication tool that will get your students ready for working with Slack and Microsoft Suite while giving you the access, control, and grading functions to make teaching much simpler.
What do you dislike about the product?
Tool integration is not smooth if your IT department likes to turn things off!
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Blackboard mirrors the multi-tool function of SLACK that all students need to master. Without realizing they are practicing the most important business skill there is- effective communication with a team.
Running an elearning course using Blackboard
What do you like best about the product?
It is extremely versatile. You can do almost any educational activity on it.
What do you dislike about the product?
1. Setting up online discussions is exhausting. You have to switch between the front end and the Discussion Board end repeatedly. Running mutliple threads gets difficult. Yet one needs interaction in online courses.
2. The Grade Center is really customisable. Has many features, but it is very difficult to navigate through all the marks in an online course that lasts for a few months.
3. It can sometimes be difficult to find answers in the Instructor Help section.
2. The Grade Center is really customisable. Has many features, but it is very difficult to navigate through all the marks in an online course that lasts for a few months.
3. It can sometimes be difficult to find answers in the Instructor Help section.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
1. It is easy to run a university course using Blackboard. You can communicate with students, get lists of students, collect and mark assignments, work out marks.
2. We are using if for an elearning course in patient blood management. It integrates with SCORM files. One can keep tract of student progress. It is easy to locate and grade any assessments that have been completed. But setting up the course in labour-intensive.
2. We are using if for an elearning course in patient blood management. It integrates with SCORM files. One can keep tract of student progress. It is easy to locate and grade any assessments that have been completed. But setting up the course in labour-intensive.
Reliable vendor/partner and feature-filled LMS
What do you like best about the product?
Learn (original and ultra courses) are full of features that adapt to instructor, student, and institutional needs. Lots of options for classes using the LMS for everything as well as those who just supplement their face to face interactions.
What do you dislike about the product?
Integrating third party tools and managing them can be a challenge but this situation has been improved by the sunsetting of building blocks adn the embracing of LTI and REST API integrations...if the third parties will get their ducks in a row...
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Blackboard Learn as the online learning platform for all academic-facing efforts for 39,000 students and 5,000 faculty/staff. We use it for all aspects of course management. It gives a single point of access for instructional technology at the institution and allows instructors access to tools to give content, administer assessments, conduct discussions, and more.
Blackboard is a great LMS, always enhancing their product.
What do you like best about the product?
Blackboard is user friendly. There are a variety of features that are enticements to the overachieving faculty who are always looking to enhance their course deployments. Because it has been in the LMS market for so long, nearly all vendors have made sure they can integrate easily with it. With SaaS now deployed for large software applications, it has made implementation and upgrades much easier and more efficient. Customer support is tiered so if the first level does not have a fix, it gets escalated to the next tier until it is resolved. I use Blackboard daily and have for nearly 20 years now.
What do you dislike about the product?
Customer Support is based out of the South America so getting someone that truly understands the problem or speaks clear English is at times a hinderance to getting quick resolutions.
Also, for large deployments like mine, some basic features were left off years ago as they enchanced the product and never brought back. Like setting a pagination display for number of viewable records. I must change this 25 times a day. Also, searching is limited to only one field which with 100,000 users, looking for "Smith" is tedious at best.
Also, for large deployments like mine, some basic features were left off years ago as they enchanced the product and never brought back. Like setting a pagination display for number of viewable records. I must change this 25 times a day. Also, searching is limited to only one field which with 100,000 users, looking for "Smith" is tedious at best.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Upgrading the interface to a more 21 century look and feel.
Great product and support
What do you like best about the product?
I like that I feel that I have support and backing for what my company wants to do. Service has greatly improved. Ultra Learn is amazing. Happy with our decision to stay with Blackboard and other Anthology products.
What do you dislike about the product?
I don't like that it's difficult to get help with specific features.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are solving big data problems and we love the analytics.
Excellent experience and reliable
What do you like best about the product?
The customization of different learning area and tools.
What do you dislike about the product?
The navigation between courses. As Intructor I have to navigate a lot to access from an course to others.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The access and creation of learning environment.
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