Blackboard okay and not okay
March 29, 2017
Blackboard okay and not okay
Score 7 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Modules Used
- Blackboard Learn
- Blackboard Connect
- Blackboard Engage
- Blackboard Mobile
- Blackboard Collaborate
Overall Satisfaction with Blackboard
Blackboard is used as a learning platform for online and campus classes for students to access learning information. The software addresses the need of giving students access to information to learn.
Pros
- Blackboard is fairly easily to use, no large learning curve is needed.
- Blackboard has very little down time.
- Blackboard several add-on functionalities that add value.
- The clickable rubric is a great tool...although the point system should not be broken down to such tiny small points.
Cons
- Blackboard has a lot of room for improvement in terms of notifications. If a student posts an assignment or updates something there is no notification upon logging to make a professor aware.
- Using videos in Blackboard is very challenging, if you design your own and want to upload them. They used to appear on the home page but they no longer do.
- The threaded discussions are hard to follow because every thread opens rather than allowing the reader to select the threads they want to read.
- The notification for a makeup exam or an overridden grade are the same notification in the gradebook versus if the grades updated automatically as some of their competition programs do.
- Blackboard is my least favorite system to work with due to not be as user friendly as other programs.
- The clickable rubrics are great, but they should focus on whole points instead of .1, .2, .3, .4, and so on.
- As an adjunct professor, it has an impact by limiting or creating challenges on what I can offer students in terms of learning.
- D2L
D2L has more flexibility and far easier to utilize. D2L is more functional in terms of uploading documents, videos and tools to create an environment of learning.
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