LMSBuilt with educators and refined through millions of teaching interactions, Blackboard LMS puts AI, accessibility, and personalized learning at every institution’s core.
“We launched a comprehensive campus-wide search that involved demos and Q&As from three vendors: Blackboard LMS, D2L Brightspace, and Instructure Canvas. After gathering feedback from our faculty and students, we found that Blackboard was the clear favorite… Blackboard LMS offered a sleeker, faster, and more user-friendly interface that enhanced the online learning experience.”
What Blackboard LMS does differently
Blackboard is powered by insights from real users in real courses. Faculty are less weighed down by admin, freeing up time to invest in developing engaging courses and advancing student outcomes.
Why Blackboard LMS
Blackboard’s AI capabilities, from the AI Design Assistant to the exclusive AI Conversation, aren’t add-ons or experiments. They’re in the core, in production, and used by institutions around the world. We track adoption and outcomes because we believe AI should be proven, not promised.
41% of our R&D investment goes directly into the eight core workflows that matter most to faculty and students. The result: a 68% increase in time-on-content after the 2026 UI refresh. Ease of use isn’t a promise here. It’s a measured outcome.
SOC 2, FERPA, GDPR, ISO 27001/27017/27018, FedRAMP Class C, and WCAG 2.2 AA: all maintained by Blackboard, all audited externally, all in a single Trust Center. With Blackboard, your institution has a partner that has been and will continue to be focused on protecting your faculty and student data.
350+ user-requested features released in the last 12 months. Every Blackboard institution has a direct line to the product roadmap through the Idea Exchange. That’s not a support model. It’s a development partnership.
Learning in practice
Institutions like yours are using Blackboard LMS to improve teaching, close learning gaps, and build the case for technology with their leadership.
Resources
Blog Post
AI, Video, and Usability: Highlights from the Blackboard LMS July 2026 release
While students head off for a well-deserved break, conveniently timed to coincide with the World Cup, we’re charging full steam ahead towards our Building Blackboard Together user conference in Dallas, where innovation in the Blackboard LMS will hold center stage.
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Webinar
Protecting Your Institution and Students: Privacy, Security & Compliance in Higher Ed
The landscape has shifted. States are passing AI legislation. Data sovereignty debates are intensifying. Cyber threats to educational institutions are top of mind. Your students, faculty, and community expect their data to be protected no matter what.
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Blog Post
A Year of Listening: How Your Feedback Shaped the New Gradebook Grid View
“You being here today proves that you listen to faculty feedback.” That comment captures exactly why we spent the past year rebuilding the Blackboard gradebook from the ground up, and why, on August 6, 2026, the new Gradebook Grid View ships to production for all customers.
Learn MoreBlackboard Ally makes every course more accessible by catching what instructors miss and creating alternative formats for every learner. Blackboard Evaluate gives faculty a structured way to improve courses based on real feedback. And Blackboard’s Institutional Effectiveness suite closes the loop between what institutions teach and what they’re able to demonstrate to accreditors and leadership.
Let’s make it official.
Want an honest conversation about whether Blackboard LMS is the right fit for your institution and what it would take to get there?
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AI in Blackboard LMS advances learning in several ways. Within the core license, instructors can use the AI Design Assistant to inspire and expedite creation of courses, documents, assessments, and grading rubrics. Blackboard’s exclusive AI Conversation allows instructors to assess students’ practical skills in a safe environment, and is proving popular at leading institutions like University of South Carolina.
Blackboard LMS AVA is a premium add-on for institutions looking to innovate with AI-powered pedagogy. It provides a range of capabilities to enhance feedback, improve learning engagement, drive AI literacy in an equitable way, and facilitate immediate access to crucial information for students.
Yes. Every AI feature in Blackboard LMS has institution-level controls, allowing administrators to choose which capabilities to activate in accordance with their institution’s policies.
Instructors also have full transparency when using AI, and can review, edit, and ultimately accept all AI outputs before they’re applied in their courses.
Blackboard maintains FERPA compliance, SOC 2 Type II attestation, ISO 27001, and GDPR readiness, audited externally — and student data is never used to train external AI models. Blackboard’s Trustworthy AI Approach, led by a dedicated Trustworthy AI Officer, governs how AI is built and deployed. Full documentation is in the Blackboard Trust Center.
Yes. Blackboard LMS connects with EdTech tools via LTI 1.3 and REST APIs — including Turnitin, VitalSource, Zoom, Microsoft Teams, and most SIS platforms. Custom integrations are supported through the Partner Network.
