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 Grades: Access grades 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 organize course materials and assessments effortlessly.
- Timely Notifications: Set up custom alerts such as when submissions are ready for grading, messages from students, and more.
- Streamlined Grading: Grade 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: Utilize 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

one of the worst management apps of all time. the app does not save your login, so you have to manually log in every time you open the app. this log in does not work with password managers, so you will have to manually enter your email and password every single time. even after you log in and enter the app, it does not immediately update any new class information, instead taking even more time. submitting assignments through the app also doesn't work half the time. this app is awful.

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

Grades page improvements: Page now loads faster.
Screen reader accessibility improvements: TalkBack now announces the Star button for marking course favorites, days of the week in Calendar, and the filter button on the Courses screen.
SAML login error: Users can now log in after session timeout.
Course announcements crash: Large announcements no longer crash the app.
Calendar event screen crash: Screen no longer crashes after viewing an event.
File upload crash: Files now upload successfully.