Dropbox
Our Dropbox Education integration enables users to easily connect their Dropbox content to their Learn course saving instructors and learners time and effort and maximizing your institution’s technology investments.
Reliable tools for personal, always-on learning
Blackboard Learn is a scalable, reliable foundation for a world-class learning experience. We've kept all the powerful functionality you know and love in the Original experience. Plus, we’ve added a new, streamlined option called the Ultra experience. The Ultra experience is responsive across all devices and is easier than ever for faculty to adopt. Keep students engaged from anywhere, at any time with a more personalized, intuitive, and always-on experience.
What's new?
Your learning profile
Profiles help personalize digital learning. See and be seen online, and put faces to names. With course rosters and profiles, you know who is in your courses.
Tests
Test creation and grading has never been easier with a streamlined, intuitive workflow.
Targeted notifications
Broadcast messages to your entire institution or specific users with notifications that are prominently displayed in the activity stream when users log in.
Simplified navigation
Everything is just one click away. The new navigation provides immediate access to the most critical information you need to be successful.
Simple content creation
Our new design makes it simple to build a course. Easily create content, incorporate existing material, or import content from another course.
Seamless communication
Our new messages capability is more intuitive and easier to use. Use the messages tool to send and receive all messages and course communications.
Rubrics
Ensure consistent and impartial grading and help students focus on your expectations with easy to use rubrics.
OneDrive
Our Microsoft OneDrive integration enables educators and students to connect their OneDrive account and their Learn account to quickly and easily add content from OneDrive.
Moving to the Ultra Course View
When deciding whether to convert an Original Course to the Ultra Course View, you can see a preview of the course first to ensure a smooth, informed transition.
Mobile learning experience
Blackboard is creating a new way to learn. A responsive design, combined with our native mobile apps, provides maximum flexibility for your on-the-go users.
Help along the way
Get up and running quickly. We’ll help both educators and students navigate the new environment so that they can concentrate on teaching and learning.
Embedded learning analytics
Blackboard’s predictive learning analytics are embedded into core workflows for both educators and students in order to drive student success.
Dropbox
Our Dropbox Education integration enables users to easily connect their Dropbox content to their Learn course saving instructors and learners time and effort and maximizing your institution’s technology investments.
Discussions
We’ve made discussions simple. So it’s easy for educators to foster anywhere, anytime social learning that builds connections among students.
Assignments
We’ve made authentic assessment easier than ever, whether you’re a teacher creating an assignment or a student submitting one or managing due dates.
Ultra Experience
Your learning profile
Profiles help personalize digital learning. See and be seen online, and put faces to names. With course rosters and profiles, you know who is in your courses.
Tests
Test creation and grading has never been easier with a streamlined, intuitive workflow.
Surveys & course evaluations
Access valuable feedback with course evaluations and enterprise surveys – all within your Blackboard Learn environment at no additional cost.
Targeted notifications
Broadcast messages to your entire institution or specific users with notifications that are prominently displayed in the activity stream when users log in.
Simplified navigation
Everything is just one click away. The new navigation provides immediate access to the most critical information you need to be successful.
Simple content creation
Our new design makes it simple to build a course. Easily create content, incorporate existing material, or import content from another course.
Seamless communication
Our new messages capability is more intuitive and easier to use. Use the messages tool to send and receive all messages and course communications.
Rubrics
Ensure consistent and impartial grading and help students focus on your expectations with easy to use rubrics.
Portfolio assessment
With our Portfolio and its updated interface, authors can create and showcase artifacts of learning with ease, all from within Blackboard Learn.
Organizations
Enable online collaboration beyond the classroom. Organizations provide online collaboration space for student groups, clubs, committees, and special projects.
OneDrive
Our Microsoft OneDrive integration enables educators and students to connect their OneDrive account and their Learn account to quickly and easily add content from OneDrive.
Moving to the Ultra Course View
When deciding whether to convert an Original Course to the Ultra Course View, you can see a preview of the course first to ensure a smooth, informed transition.
Mobile learning experience
Blackboard is creating a new way to learn. A responsive design, combined with our native mobile apps, provides maximum flexibility for your on-the-go users.
Help along the way
Get up and running quickly. We’ll help both educators and students navigate the new environment so that they can concentrate on teaching and learning.
Grading made easy
On one page, educators have immediate access to grading tasks for all courses. Quickly scan everything you need to grade – without navigating to each course.
Embedded learning analytics
Blackboard’s predictive learning analytics are embedded into core workflows for both educators and students in order to drive student success.
Dynamic content
Engage all learners with dynamic visual content. Enable them to respond actively by embedding dynamic content to help support their point.
Discussions
We’ve made discussions simple. So it’s easy for educators to foster anywhere, anytime social learning that builds connections among students.
Content collection
You can increase educator efficiency and curriculum quality through the central management, sharing, collaborative use, and reuse of academic content.
Blackboard Open Content
Discover, author, and share Open Educational Resources, standards-aligned materials, your institutional content, and your personal learning objects.
Assignments
We’ve made authentic assessment easier than ever, whether you’re a teacher creating an assignment or a student submitting one or managing due dates.
Ultra Course
Your learning profile
Profiles help personalize digital learning. See and be seen online, and put faces to names. With course rosters and profiles, you know who is in your courses.
Tests
Test creation and grading has never been easier with a streamlined, intuitive workflow.
Targeted notifications
Broadcast messages to your entire institution or specific users with notifications that are prominently displayed in the activity stream when users log in.
Simple content creation
Our new design makes it simple to build a course. Easily create content, incorporate existing material, or import content from another course.
Seamless communication
Our new messages capability is more intuitive and easier to use. Use the messages tool to send and receive all messages and course communications.
Rubrics
Ensure consistent and impartial grading and help students focus on your expectations with easy to use rubrics.
OneDrive
Our Microsoft OneDrive integration enables educators and students to connect their OneDrive account and their Learn account to quickly and easily add content from OneDrive.
Moving to the Ultra Course View
When deciding whether to convert an Original Course to the Ultra Course View, you can see a preview of the course first to ensure a smooth, informed transition.
Mobile learning experience
Blackboard is creating a new way to learn. A responsive design, combined with our native mobile apps, provides maximum flexibility for your on-the-go users.
Help along the way
Get up and running quickly. We’ll help both educators and students navigate the new environment so that they can concentrate on teaching and learning.
Grading made easy
On one page, educators have immediate access to grading tasks for all courses. Quickly scan everything you need to grade – without navigating to each course.
Embedded learning analytics
Blackboard’s predictive learning analytics are embedded into core workflows for both educators and students in order to drive student success.
Discussions
We’ve made discussions simple. So it’s easy for educators to foster anywhere, anytime social learning that builds connections among students.
Assignments
We’ve made authentic assessment easier than ever, whether you’re a teacher creating an assignment or a student submitting one or managing due dates.
Original Experience
Dropbox
Our Dropbox Education integration enables users to easily connect their Dropbox content to their Learn course saving instructors and learners time and effort and maximizing your institution’s technology investments.
Surveys & course evaluations
Access valuable feedback with course evaluations and enterprise surveys – all within your Blackboard Learn environment at no additional cost.
Student preview
Student preview lets educators see the course exactly as a student would see it. Educators can easily confirm course content design and course behaviors.
Student activity reporting
Activity reporting gives institutions data that is critical to managing learning, boosting student achievement, and meeting external organizations’ requirements.
Standards, goals, & reporting
Standards and goals can be created or directly edited and then aligned to content, assignments, and assessments.
Social learning
Our global learning network connects users at Blackboard Learn institutions worldwide and enables students and educators to learn from each other informally.
SafeAssign™
SafeAssign integrates seamlessly with native Blackboard Learn assignments, bringing plagiarism prevention into core educator and student workflows.
Retention Center
The new Retention Center brings student engagement and performance metrics to your attention, enabling you to take action before it’s too late.
Portfolio assessment
With our Portfolio and its updated interface, authors can create and showcase artifacts of learning with ease, all from within Blackboard Learn.
Outcomes assessment
You can make assessment activities faster and easier while establishing a systematic process for planning, measuring, and improving programs.
Organizations
Enable online collaboration beyond the classroom. Organizations provide online collaboration space for student groups, clubs, committees, and special projects.
Interactive rubrics
Interactive rubrics help educators be fair, consistent, and efficient in evaluating and giving feedback to students, all without leaving the grading workflow.
Institutional hierarchy
Institutional hierarchy provides a robust and flexible way to delegate administration in a manner that parallels the structure of your organization.
Inline grading experience
Now you can grade collaborative tools and assignments and provide feedback within the web browser, making grading faster, smarter, and more streamlined.
Group management
Group experiences are critical to engaging students personally in courses and organizations. Creating and managing groups in Blackboard is easier than ever.
Dynamic content
Engage all learners with dynamic visual content. Enable them to respond actively by embedding dynamic content to help support their point.
Dropbox
Our Dropbox Education integration enables users to easily connect their Dropbox content to their Learn course saving instructors and learners time and effort and maximizing your institution’s technology investments.
Digital assessments
From tests and quizzes to surveys and polls, choose among many options and build your own online assessments. Reuse questions or create new ones on the fly.
Date management
You’ll love this time-saver: When you copy the content of an existing course to a new course shell, all due dates and release dates are pre-populated.
Course-embedded assessment
With embedded assessments, you can leverage the work your faculty and students are already doing – and minimize impact on their daily teaching and learning.
Course themes & structures
Our Quick Setup Guide and course themes and structures help educators get up to speed and easily customize their course environments.
Course relationship management
We’ve streamlined the management of multiple courses. Our merge enrollments feature supports cross-listed courses and multi-section management.
Blackboard Drive
Blackboard Drive gives users a simple, consistent, and efficient way to do file-management tasks and to map network drives with content in Blackboard Learn.
Content collection
You can increase educator efficiency and curriculum quality through the central management, sharing, collaborative use, and reuse of academic content.
Blackboard Open Content
Discover, author, and share Open Educational Resources, standards-aligned materials, your institutional content, and your personal learning objects.
Badges & achievements
Digital badges and certificates help motivate students to achieve defined goals and competencies, especially in self-paced and open-enrollment courses.
Assessment item optimization
With our item analysis report, you can refine assessments with discrimination statistics that help you swiftly identify and remedy poor questions.
Active collaboration
Promote active collaboration around course content and group projects with wikis, blogs, and discussions that are built for education and support authentic assessment.
Original Course
Dropbox
Our Dropbox Education integration enables users to easily connect their Dropbox content to their Learn course saving instructors and learners time and effort and maximizing your institution’s technology investments.
Surveys & course evaluations
Access valuable feedback with course evaluations and enterprise surveys – all within your Blackboard Learn environment at no additional cost.
Student preview
Student preview lets educators see the course exactly as a student would see it. Educators can easily confirm course content design and course behaviors.
Student activity reporting
Activity reporting gives institutions data that is critical to managing learning, boosting student achievement, and meeting external organizations’ requirements.
Standards, goals, & reporting
Standards and goals can be created or directly edited and then aligned to content, assignments, and assessments.
SafeAssign™
SafeAssign integrates seamlessly with native Blackboard Learn assignments, bringing plagiarism prevention into core educator and student workflows.
Retention Center
The new Retention Center brings student engagement and performance metrics to your attention, enabling you to take action before it’s too late.
Portfolio assessment
With our Portfolio and its updated interface, authors can create and showcase artifacts of learning with ease, all from within Blackboard Learn.
Outcomes assessment
You can make assessment activities faster and easier while establishing a systematic process for planning, measuring, and improving programs.
Organizations
Enable online collaboration beyond the classroom. Organizations provide online collaboration space for student groups, clubs, committees, and special projects.
Interactive rubrics
Interactive rubrics help educators be fair, consistent, and efficient in evaluating and giving feedback to students, all without leaving the grading workflow.
Institutional hierarchy
Institutional hierarchy provides a robust and flexible way to delegate administration in a manner that parallels the structure of your organization.
Inline grading experience
Now you can grade collaborative tools and assignments and provide feedback within the web browser, making grading faster, smarter, and more streamlined.
Group management
Group experiences are critical to engaging students personally in courses and organizations. Creating and managing groups in Blackboard is easier than ever.
Dynamic content
Engage all learners with dynamic visual content. Enable them to respond actively by embedding dynamic content to help support their point.
Dropbox
Our Dropbox Education integration enables users to easily connect their Dropbox content to their Learn course saving instructors and learners time and effort and maximizing your institution’s technology investments.
Digital assessments
From tests and quizzes to surveys and polls, choose among many options and build your own online assessments. Reuse questions or create new ones on the fly.
Date management
You’ll love this time-saver: When you copy the content of an existing course to a new course shell, all due dates and release dates are pre-populated.
Course-embedded assessment
With embedded assessments, you can leverage the work your faculty and students are already doing – and minimize impact on their daily teaching and learning.
Course themes & structures
Our Quick Setup Guide and course themes and structures help educators get up to speed and easily customize their course environments.
Course relationship management
We’ve streamlined the management of multiple courses. Our merge enrollments feature supports cross-listed courses and multi-section management.
Blackboard Drive
Blackboard Drive gives users a simple, consistent, and efficient way to do file-management tasks and to map network drives with content in Blackboard Learn.
Content collection
You can increase educator efficiency and curriculum quality through the central management, sharing, collaborative use, and reuse of academic content.
Blackboard Open Content
Discover, author, and share Open Educational Resources, standards-aligned materials, your institutional content, and your personal learning objects.
Badges & achievements
Digital badges and certificates help motivate students to achieve defined goals and competencies, especially in self-paced and open-enrollment courses.
Assessment item optimization
With our item analysis report, you can refine assessments with discrimination statistics that help you swiftly identify and remedy poor questions.
Active collaboration
Promote active collaboration around course content and group projects with wikis, blogs, and discussions that are built for education and support authentic assessment.