Every tool you need to advance teaching and learning.
Three solution areas.
One shared purpose.
Blackboard builds teaching and learning technology that works for the people inside it — faculty and trainers, students, and administrators.
Learning
Deliver a complete, AI-powered learning environment where great teaching happens at scale and every student gets a path that is genuinely their own.
Accessibility
Make every course automatically more accessible for every learner — not as a project, but as a practice built into how you deliver learning.
Evidence
Understand what your students are learning and build the institutional evidence to act on it, improve it, and stand behind it.
Product Portfolio
Find the right products for your institution.
Learning
Blackboard LMS
The only LMS rebuilt from the ground up around the learner. AI-native, personalized by design, and built to serve the full range of your institution’s programs, from first-year undergraduates to continuing education and graduate cohorts.
AI Virtual Assistant (AVA)
An AI assistant that increases learning efficacy by guiding students through course related questions, exploring and developing ideas, and checking key concepts, all in a secure environment.
Video Studio
A purpose-built lecture capture and course video environment with AI-generated captions, transcripts, and audio descriptions built in, so accessibility is a default, not a post-production task.
Adopt
Real-time usage analytics that show exactly how faculty and students are engaging with Blackboard across your institution, so your team can target training, support, and adoption efforts where they’ll have the most impact.
Milestone
Skills and competency tracking built into the core LMS, giving students a portable record of what they’ve earned and giving institutions the tools to demonstrate mastery-based progression to accreditors and employers.
Course Catalog
A searchable, branded course discovery experience that makes it easy for prospective students, current enrollees, and lifelong learners to find and register for the programs that fit their goals — without leaving your institution’s ecosystem.
Accessibility
Ally
The only accessibility tool that automatically remediates course content, generates alternative formats for every learner, and gives your institution a real-time compliance dashboard. It works with Blackboard LMS and any other LMS you’re running.
Analytics
Illuminate
Course-level learning analytics that give faculty early visibility into student performance patterns, so instructors can intervene before a struggling student falls too far behind to recover.
Evidence
Institutional Effectiveness
A connected suite — Accreditation, Planning, and Program Review — that turns your institution’s learning evidence into a structured, continuous improvement record, so every accreditation cycle builds on the last.
Outcomes
Define, map, and measure learning outcomes from the course level to the institutional level — giving faculty, program directors, and IR teams a shared, real-time view of whether students are achieving what your curriculum is designed to deliver.
Evaluate
Course evaluations that give faculty structured, actionable feedback on their teaching — not just satisfaction scores — so every survey cycle becomes a practical input to teaching quality and curriculum improvement.
The right product is just the start.
Great outcomes depend on more than the technology itself. They depend on thoughtful implementation, prepared faculty, and ongoing support as needs evolve. Blackboard’s implementation, training, and support services are an extension of our products. Our Services are designed to help your institution get the most from your investment. From onboarding through adoption and beyond, our team works alongside yours to ensure your technology delivers the outcomes you need.
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Whether you’re evaluating for the first time or ready to expand what Blackboard does for your institution, let’s talk.
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Questions, answered.
Higher education software is the set of platforms institutions run teaching and operations on — the LMS at the center, plus accessibility tools, learning analytics, course evaluation, and institutional effectiveness systems. The best stacks are integrated, so evidence flows from the classroom to accreditation without re-keying.
Five things decide long-term fit: innovation and a proactive approach to AI, accessibility for every learner, security and data governance, evidence that it improves outcomes, and a proven record of developing in collaboration with institutional partners. Weight faculty and student experience heavily — adoption is where platforms succeed or fail.
Blackboard builds around three connected areas: Learning (Blackboard LMS and its add-ons), Accessibility (Blackboard Ally), and Evidence (course evaluation, outcomes, and institutional effectiveness tools). They work as a connected ecosystem, so improving a course, reaching a struggling student, and documenting results for accreditors are seamlessly linked.
Yes. Blackboard products connect with student information systems and campus tools via LTI 1.3 and REST APIs, and Blackboard Ally also deploys alongside non-Blackboard LMS platforms, including Canvas.
Blackboard builds accessibility natively into our learning platform. All workflows within our solutions are reviewed for accessibility prior to general availability.
Blackboard Ally, our premium accessibility offering that integrates directly with Blackbaord LMS, scores course content, guides instructors on fixes inside the LMS, and automatically generates alternative formats for students — while institutional dashboards document measurable progress your leadership and counsel can stand behind.
Implementation, training, and ongoing support are an extension of the products. From onboarding through adoption, Blackboard’s services team works alongside your staff to move courses, prepare faculty, and stay engaged as needs evolve.
Institutions across higher education, government, workforce and corporate learning, and K-12. Millions of learners of all ages and backgrounds use Blackboard to pursue their learning and career goals, from first-year undergraduates to continuing education, agency training programs, and professional development.