You wanted an easy to use interface, one that has the tools to put you back in control of your classroom. With features like inline assignment grading and the rebuilt calendar, you can be more effective at making an impact on your students and focus on core teaching and learning activities.
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Designed with you in mind, the enhanced Blackboard Learn sparks student interaction while easing the burden on your time and resources. It's a simpler, more powerful LMS.
Access Blackboard Learn content from your desktop.
File sharing made simple.
Easily manage versions.
Manage content right from your desktop. With the enhanced Blackboard Drive, you no longer need to visit the Bb Learn web interface to manage, edit, or share your files. Simply use familiar desktop tools like Windows® Explorer, Mac OS® X Finder, and Microsoft Office.
Break Out the Virtual Red Pen.
What you see offline is what you see inline.
Stop waiting for files to download. Inline Assessment Grading eliminates the need to download files, so you never have to leave your LMS. View and edit submissions within the web browser itself, enhancing your grading experience.
Identify at-risk students early on.
On your watch.
Common categories.
Pinpoint problems and take action. Imagine changing a student's path if you were aware of risk factors early on. The new Retention Center brings issues and trends to your attention, quickly alerting you to potential risk and allowing you to take immediate action.
Easy to use
Stand out from the crowd
Start a discussion. We've overhauled the entire Discussions interface within Blackboard Learn, all while adding new functionality. Now you have a more powerful tool to spark student interaction and engagement.
Get involved in the conversation.
Spaces for Social Learning.
Privacy Options.
Collaborate with your learning network. The new Spaces tool enables you and your students to create ad-hoc communication and collaboration spaces. In less than a minute, any user can create a Space to meet their education needs.
Customized views
Automated Updates
Your schedule just opened up. Spend less time organizing your calendar and more time doing what's on it. Consolidate course items into a modern, easy-to-use, personalized view. And export to third-party calendars like Outlook or Google.
Video
YouTube
Video here, video there, video everywhere! The Video Everywhere capability allows you to provide feedback, create content and reuse videos all throughout a course.
Everything you need, all in one place. My Blackboard consolidates critical information from across all of Blackboard Learn and presents it in one easy-to-navigate home base. Plus, you can also discover and connect with your learning network.
With the new Global Navigation Menu seen here, you have one-click access to the new My Blackboard tools as well as your Courses, Organizations, and Settings.
Simple and modern, My Blackboard meets the needs of today's active learners and their educators. Let's take a look.
Posts
Filters
Easily engage with students.
Communicate quickly and clearly.
Get the full picture.
No more formatting headaches.
No experience required. The easy-to-use Content Editor reads, writes and renders modern HTML, making it a breeze to create rich course materials for your students.
Test your test questions.
Test time saver.
Goodbye cumbersome data extracts and third-party assessment tools. Item Analysis helps you refine assessments by evaluating the quality and validity of each question.
"This new Content Editor is on par with the best text box editor I've worked with to date."
"Students are wanting more and more social interaction on campus and inside of their courses. My Blackboard will really help facilitate these requests."
"By adding the ability to review and edit assignments directly in the browser, Blackboard continues to help instructors with an efficient grading process. This along with the Needs Grading view, the Grade Center, and inline grading within Blackboard tools such as blogs, wikis and journals create a smooth and streamlined workflow that faculty members want."
See your grades at any moment. Connect with teachers, classmates, and conversations going on in your courses. You focus on what's important.
Easy to use
Find the needle in a haystack
Join the discussion. We've overhauled the entire Discussions interface within Blackboard Learn, all while adding new functionality. Now you have a more powerful tool to interact with your peers and instructors.
Customized views
Automated Updates
Never miss a deadline. All your due dates and course events are consolidated in a modern, easy-to-use calendar. And you can add your own events and reminders and export to third-party calendars like Outlook or Google.
Jump from point A to point B.
Leverage shortcuts
Navigate with confidence. Quick Links significantly improves the navigation experience for all users, especially those who rely on screen-reader technology to navigate the web, so no user is left out.
An enhanced People tool.
Go global
Who's in your learning network?
Join a global learning network. New social learning tools available for Blackboard Learn enable you to discover, connect, and collaborate with your global learning network, right within your online learning environment.
What's on your mind?
Connect with your learning network. With the new social learning tools available for Blackboard Learn, profiles become an easy way to connect and communicate with your learning network.
Video
YouTube
Video at your fingertips. Video Everywhere allows you and your instructors to record and reuse video all throughout a course – from blogs to discussion boards to instructor feedback.
My Blackboard is an entirely new experience in Blackboard Learn developed just for you.
We know you don't want to go to multiple places to stay up-to-date on what's happening across all your courses and organizations. That's why we developed My Blackboard. Now, all your critical academic information is consolidated in a simple, modern, easily consumable way.
And the new Global Navigation menu provides one-click access to your courses, organizations, settings and the new My Blackboard tools. Let's take a look at My Blackboard.
Access all your grades in a single view.
My Grades is A+.
A job well done.
Educators spark student interaction and engagement with less burden on time and resources. Students connect and collaborate the way they want. And administrators can actually see their institution evolve and excel through feedback collected within the LMS. When everyone else's life is easier, so is yours.
Blackboard Learn content, right on the desktop.
File sharing made simple.
Easily manage versions.
Simplify content management for your users. With the enhanced Blackboard Drive feature, editing, versioning, and sharing files can be done right from the desktop using familiar tools like Windows® Explorer, Mac OS® X Finder, and Microsoft Office.
Break Out the Virtual Red Pen.
What you see offline is what you see inline.
Cut down on wait time. Inline Assessment Grading eliminates the need to download files, so your instructors never have to leave their LMS. They can view and edit submissions within the web browser itself, enhancing their grading experience and cutting down on wasted time.
Jump from point A to point B.
Leverage shortcuts
Navigate with confidence. Quick Links significantly improves the navigation experience for all users, especially those who rely on screen-reader technology to navigate the web, so no user is left out.
Start a discussion. We've overhauled the entire Discussions interface within Blackboard Learn, all while adding new functionality. Now your users have a more powerful tool to interact with one another.
Today's active learner expects to be able to easily connect online with their different communities – including their education community. However, they want to keep their academic and personal lives separate. So we worked with students, educators, and administrators to develop a global learning network for Blackboard Learn.
This network connects users at Blackboard Learn institutions around the globe and enables them to learn from each other through social, informal means – complementing the more formal classroom and online course experiences. Because we all know that learning doesn't end when you leave the classroom.
We call them Enterprise Surveys for a reason.
Instead of investing in third-party survey tools, you can now leverage Enterprise Surveys and Course Evaluations right within Blackboard Learn Course Delivery.
Give them what they want, all in one place.
No nonsense navigation.
Like a well-packed book bag.
Student-Centered. My Blackboard is an entirely new user experience, designed to meet the needs of today's active learner. Critical information from across Blackboard Learn is consolidated in a simple, modern way to keep students up-to-date and engaged.
Get the full picture. The new Content Editor allows users to easily paste content from Microsoft Word, input math equations, and build rich content using full-frame editing.
With support for the LTI 1.1 standard, grades from third party tools will automatically post to the Blackboard Learn Grade Center, making it easier for educators to manage assignments.
Rapid response on your terms.
Reclaim your schedule. We're delivering innovation faster than ever through Blackboard Building Blocks that you can choose to implement on your terms – whether that's right away when they're made available or during your next Service Pack upgrade.
Find all the resources you and your users need for success with the latest release.
"The Product Development Partnership is a big part of our e-learning department. This is our way to contribute our faculty and student opinions on new and existing features. We're able to work with Blackboard in shaping the product, so that it becomes the best possible product out there."
Make it easier for students to learn and engage. Help educators connect with their students. Ensure that not one test question is wasted. And collect information about student learning through tools that are integrated and included with your LMS.
Jump from point A to point B.
Leverage shortcuts
Navigate with confidence. Quick Links significantly improves the navigation experience for all users, especially those who rely on screen-reader technology to navigate the web, so no user is left out.
Identify at-risk students early on.
On your watch.
Common categories.
Pinpoint problems and take action. Imagine changing a student's path if educators were aware of risk factors early on. The new Retention Center brings issues and trends to the attention of instructors, quickly alerting them to potential risk and allowing them to take immediate action.
Today's active learner expects to be able to easily connect online with their different communities – including their education community. However, they want to keep their academic and personal lives separate. So we worked with students, educators, and administrators to develop a global learning network for Blackboard Learn.
This network connects users at Blackboard Learn institutions around the globe and enables them to learn from each other through social, informal means – complementing the more formal classroom and online course experiences. Because we all know that learning doesn't end when you leave the classroom.
We call them Enterprise Surveys for a reason.
Your information, the way you want it.
Access precious feedback through Enterprise Surveys & Course Evaluations – all within your Blackboard Learn environment and through your existing license.
Content at your fingertips.
The greatest level of choice and integration with content publishers provide your faculty and students with the material they need to succeed.
They won't miss a thing.
Simply engage students. My Blackboard is an entirely new student experience. Critical information from across Blackboard Learn is consolidated in a simple, modern way to keep students up-to-date and engaged in the learning experience.
Reach students on their terms. Educators can now send text messages from Blackboard Learn straight to students, who can simply respond via text. Also, students can now opt to receive automatic text or text-to-voice notifications for everything from grades to due dates.
Find all the resources your educators and students need for success with the latest release.
"Our institution can't wait for SP10, because the majority of our faculty has requested a better survey system the Enterprise Surveys & Course Evaluations Tool delivers."
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Working with 1000 instructors, students and administrators to develop our last major release in November seemed hard to top, but I was humbled and proud to hear that more than 2000 have guided us in the development process since then as we hit another milestone with today's release of a simply better Blackboard Learn. Continue Reading >
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