Blackboard

Anthology Inc.

About this app

Download the Blackboard App and stay seamlessly connected with your courses and elevate your learning experience. Whether you’re a student or an instructor, this app integrates with your institution’s Blackboard platform to bring you essential tools and real-time updates on the go.

For students:
- Stay informed: Instantly view updates and changes to your courses.
- Real-time alerts: Receive notifications for due dates, announcements and more.
- Manage coursework: Easily complete and submit assignments, take tests and track your progress.
- Check marks: Access marks for courses, assignments and tests with just a few taps.
- Plus more: Explore additional features tailored to enhance your educational journey.

For instructors:
- Efficient course management: Upload and organise course materials and assessments effortlessly.
- Timely notifications: Set up custom alerts such as when submissions are ready for marking, messages from students and more.
- Streamlined marking: Mark assignments and provide feedback from your phone or tablet.
- Engage students: Send course announcements, create and manage discussion threads, and interact with student comments.
- And beyond: Utilise more tools designed to support your teaching and engagement.

Please note: The Blackboard App functions in conjunction with your institution’s Blackboard server. Access and features may vary based on your institution’s settings and software updates.
By using this app, you agree to our terms and privacy information - https://www.anthology.com/trust-center/terms-of-use.

Ratings and reviews

The app is slow and laggy. It has this weird bug where you click on a course and then it goes white for a bit then refreshes to the main page. the second time you click on the course it works fine. Also, it crashed on me twice when taking a quiz. Luckily the quiz progress was automatically saved but it was still stressful. Uploading certain file types is unintuitive and large files take forever to upload even with fast WiFi speeds. Also some embedded links don't work.

Canvas is a much better app to use than this blackboard app. It's very slow and doesn't have everything that is needed in order to successfully achieve the most basic action for your educational purposes. On canvas, you automatically stay logged in, it's faster and convenient to use for each course. You don't have to use the actual website on your computer because the canvas app let's you do everything while on the go. You can complete assignments, exams, attend actual online video lectures, etc

Last semester the app worked perfectly fine on my android, between semesters there was an update, and now it logs me out almost every time I open it and it constantly says "there's a problem our end" whenever I try to do anything. I can't check my grades, I can't open anything for any of my classes. I'm the type of person who likes to check on my grades and due dates a lot, and needing to be near a computer everytime I get an email that something updated kinda sucks.

What's new

Feature updates: 
* Improved native mobile app login experience. We have enhanced the Blackboard App login experience to include biometric login capabilities and clearer communications to stay logged in. These features improve the user experience while maintaining robust security. This update is for mobile login only.
* Localized numeric grade formatting. Grades now respect the user’s language and locale settings, displaying numeric values using the appropriate decimal separator.