Blackboard is orientated towards learning and professional development

What are the best aspects of this product?

Blackboards stands for well-planned and well-executed software, offering a breathtaking first encounter with smartly organized tabs, sections, and folders. You open it, and there is a 'Wow!'. How did they manage to organize it in a way that takes you wherever you want in just few seconds? Once in, the software simply welcomes you to create personal e-courses, taking care of consistency and visual appearance long before you do it. Best of all, it is not a loner's haven-you get to discuss every issue, and to base learning on communication.

What aspects are problematic or could work better?

It might be my inexperience speaking, but I think the gradebook is cumbersome. There are plenty of features inside that I don't understand, or at least have an issue seeing them in a consistent way. What frustrates me even more with this platform is that it is not integrated with Google Docs, and that's quite important for a district using it through its personal domain. You'll probably agree that they went too far with the price of 7.0, I can only imagine how many teachers gave up using Blackboard because of it.

What specific problems in your company were solved by this product?

What I do is to guide teachers through instructional technology, and to draw their professional development patterns. My overall impact is that they like Blackboard, and they find it somehow familiar. This was a real surprise for me, because we used a poorer LMS before, and it still took them less time to learn this one. They're not even asking questions any more!

Are you a current user of this product?

Yes