Students and educators need flexibility to work inside and outside the classroom in ways that make sense to their learning. Tools must be easy to use and open to integration with other systems. And since they directly support your teaching and learning mission, they must be truly reliable.

Blackboard Grade Center™
The Blackboard Grade Center is a new and easy-to-use smart grading tool built to save teachers time, provide ultimate flexibility and offer powerful analysis. read more...

Performance Dashboard and Early Warning System To best support student achievement, educators track student progress and adapt instruction accordingly. read more...

Communication and Collaboration Tools
Effective communication is the cornerstone of effective education. read more...

Blackboard SafeAssign™
Regardless of a student’s intent, plagiarism presents a very real problem in all educational settings. Blackboard technology can help you assess ... read more...

Assessments and Surveys
Our flexible assessment solutions help you design assessments that are appropriate to your pedagogy including multiple assessment methods that support multiple teaching and learning styles. read more...

The pursuit of knowledge today may be best characterized by an explosion in the volume and use of digital content. Regardless of its form, online content storage, cataloging and sharing is no longer a mere convenience. It’s critical for you to maintain your focus on high-quality teaching and student achievement while ensuring all teachers have access to exemplary content.

One integrated content management solution for all users
When your content is scattered across disparate systems and hard drives, it’s often hard to find, use and catalog. The Blackboard content management application resides on one central, integrated platform. read more...

Efficiently manage, reuse and update academic content
Educators are busy and don’t have time to recreate content for every section of a course. In the past, when one version was changed, the same updates had to be made to each document. read more...

Securely manage and share digital content
Without proper storage control, your vital content can be lost or compromised. This is especially troubling when research or curricula need to be shared with multiple constituents. read more...

Empower collaboration and sharing
Blackboard content management technology supports collaborative content development with workflow and versioning capabilities. read more...

Demonstrate student achievement
e-Portfolios are recognized for encouraging reflective learning, demonstrating academic achievement and providing opportunities for evidenced-based learning. read more...

If you’re like most educators, you’re confronting the reality of students who are technologically advanced and have diverse learning backgrounds. Unfortunately, traditional delivery of learning both inside and outside of the classroom often involves multiple systems with multiple logins. What you need is an online solution that enables you to provide one-stop access to student services and coursework whenever and wherever they’re needed.

Teaching and learning beyond the classroom
With a diverse learner population, effective ways to connect and learn outside the classroom are essential. read more...

24/7 coursework and services
The busy schedules of your learners necessitate convenient online access to resources. read more...

Personalized learning environment
Today’s digital natives and millennial students expect online learning solutions both inside and outside the classroom. read more...

Convenient, one-stop access
Digital natives, millennial students and adult learners expect to quickly and easily access your resources. Unfortunately, multiple systems with multiple logins make navigation both time-consuming and frustrating. read more...

Unique online identities
Different schools or campus groups need to establish their own identities, but software limitations can make it difficult. read more...

Institutions face more pressure to document student learning and demonstrate improvement than ever before. Accrediting agencies are requiring more evidence of continuous improvement against standards. Administrators want concrete evidence on which to base their budget decisions. An ideal solution would give you the tools you need to measure learning, analyze and report on real data and manage improvement.

Authentic Measurement Instruments
Because it’s often difficult to gather authentic data on learning outcomes, you may be relying on suspect or incomplete data for analysis. read more...

Institutional Planning & Alignment
Without unified goals and methodologies, it’s difficult to aggregate and analyze data resulting from separate assessment strategies. read more...

Assessment Reporting & Tracking
Assessment data, when it exists, is often in many places and formats. It’s difficult to get true visibility into assessment initiatives without extraordinary effort and cost. read more...

Comprehensive Assessment Management
Are you wasting valuable institutional resources and preventing wide-scale adoption with manual, time-consuming or inefficient accountability initiatives? read more...