Blackboard Learn App Reviews

VERSION
9.1.2
SCORE
4.6
TOTAL RATINGS
409,440
PRICE
Free

Blackboard Learn App Description & Overview

What is blackboard learn app? Welcome to Blackboard's mobile solution. An app that helps you stay up-to-date with everything in your course.
Students can:
• View updates to your courses and content
• Get notifications on course events and changes
• Take assignments and tests
• View grades for courses, assignments and tests
• and more
Instructors can:
• Manage course content and assessments
• Get alerts on submissions ready for grading
• Mark assignments
• Send course announcements
• Create discussion boards threads and reply to comments
• and more
We love feedback! If you have any questions or comments use the in-app feedback to help improve the application.

Note: This application functions as a collaborative tool between our app software and your institution's Blackboard Learn server. Blackboard cannot guarantee that the content created by instructors or other users will be compatible with this app. Access must be enabled by your institution. Features and functionality may at times be limited if your institution has not updated the appropriate software or experiences server outages.

Downloading or using this app indicates consent to the terms and privacy information at http://www.blackboard.com/footer/terms-of-use.aspx.

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App Name Blackboard Learn
Category Education
Published
Updated 08 February 2024, Thursday
File Size 179.31 MB

Blackboard Learn Comments & Reviews 2024

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Good, but needs work.. If all you want to use it for is to check your grades, then this app is spot on. Very user friendly interface, allowing for easy navigation through courses. Excellent grades interface giving true mobile format. These little things are great and I give respect where it is due. My issues lie in further use of the app to do things like: Read/Write Course Messages, access the content bar that is on the left when in web GUI, use landscape mode, receive alerts for messages, and a few others I can’t think of at the moment. The issues clearly reside in the apps lack of true mobile interfaces for each aspect of B.B. The only issues I have had are when the app just opens the web GUI, and now you can’t access areas on the page like the content bar on the left, or even the header portion of the page where the account icon is. I would rate this 5 stars EASILY if the web-vs-mobile app issue is resolved.

Can’t find University of Houston. I always used the app, instead of having to log into my laptop, to check for quick assignment due dates or be notified of a new announcement from my professor. Now when I’m trying to log back in, after break, my school doesn’t even show up so I looked up the help link and Blb suggests to contact your university IT desk. Well it turns out my university doesn’t even know about the mobile app, not even knowing it existed, so looks like this is another disappointment. I can’t use the app and I don’t know who could help. The downtown and Clearlake campus show up but not main campus. Please fix the glitch!!!! UPDATE: It’s finally working:) This app is so helpful in notifying me for updates on assignments or announcements I rely on it a lot.

Aggressively mediocre. An unreliable and poorly-designed platform makes for an equally mediocre iOS app. In the era of intuitive, streamlined and visually appealing technology to assist in every work task under the sun, it’s disappointing that students are stuck with Blackboard. I find it to be fairly well-organized, but the iOS app is irritatingly glitchy— often, PDFs or embedded videos will glitch if I switch tasks while working, necessitating that I close and reopen my original task or sometimes even the whole app, which often loses my place. The text editor is as reviewed by others; fortunately I can usually submit my assignments as Word documents. In general, this platform has the potential to be perfectly decent and deserves the streamlining and design update it would take to make it a good tool for students. It does not feel as though any of the designers have used this app to actually attend college and considered what features are and are not used by a student. In general I feel that the app version is about equal to logging on through a browser, and both are better than nothing, I guess.

Doesn’t keep me logged in/no longer get notifications. I used to love the blackboard app because it was a great way to keep up to date with assignments and announcements, but after an app update it hardly works. I updated my blackboard app and now it forced me to log in every single time I open the app. Not only that, but it no longer sends me notifications when there is a new announcement or when an assignment is added. I attempted to get support but it takes me directly to the blackboard site and tells me to contact my university. However, my university states that this is an in app issue and not something they can fix. There isn’t app support to submit a complaint so I’m taking to here to see if anyone else is having issues or to at least let it be known that this is happening. Hopefully it can be fixed because this was a great app prior to this issue. I’m just very frustrated now because it’s not functional at all anymore.

It would be great but.... It’s frustrating. Maybe my issues seem petty, but I liked Mobile Learn a lot better. I supposed my biggest complaint is that I can’t edit my courses page. Being able to switch what order they are shown in and color coding them (and getting rid of unnecessary information in the title) has always made it easier for me to keep organized with my classes. There’s no option to do this at all! Additionally, notifications aren’t consistent at all. Sometimes I’ll get a notification when a grade is updated or when something is added to a course, but not always. And when I do try to use the notification to go to what was new, the app doesn’t always open at all! I feel like these are relatively minor complaints, but they affect how easily I can keep organized and are really frustrating.

Unmerge. Since the newest update/merging the “current” tab does not work and you took away the best part of the app; the quick grade view! The best part about quick grade view was being able to see all overall course grades at once and have them color coded based on the grade - without it I don’t see an advantage to using this over computer login. Also the new calendar/due dates seems great for instructors, but I don’t want to have to scroll all the way down just to see I have something due at 11:59pm - the older version was better bc it listed all the due dates for that each day of the week in an easy vertical scroll and had the due dates for that particular day in a condensed column so you could see everything due for the week at a glance, which is much more efficient than scrolling down a timeline (esp if there’s only 1 thing due at midnight and you miss it bc you didn’t scroll ALL the way down) or having to click on each day of the week to see what’s due.

I can’t believe how horrible this app is. You can’t be logged in continuously it keeps logging you out if you close the app for more than ten minutes. Then, when you do log in an alert comes up saying your session is over and you have to go to settings, log out, close the app and then re open it all over again and log back in. Mind you, this is within thirty minutes of using the app. You cannot use it without WiFi which is understandable but there’s no option to save and download material so you can use it in places without WiFi or cell service. How is this app supposed to aid the community, especially folks who are taking classes but need to work or have poor internet? For an application to a website so WIDELY used by so many schools and universities I am appalled by how excise my French, jacked up it is. Invest in interface, download capabilities and an easier option to reach course discussion boards. It’s all so confusing.

Annoying. I am giving this app a one-star review because even though the app is useful in many ways, there’s still a lot that can be worked on or fixed. One of the most annoying things about this app (and everyone agrees with me on this) is the fact that you have to keep logging in every single time I open and try to access the app, which is about 7-8 times a day. This is so inconvenient because as a student I do not want to keep logging in and entering all my information when I’m trying to do homework, study, and look at my grades. I have tested it out and I’ve found out that if I close the app and open it back up about 10-15 minutes later I find myself logged out. I have also asked around and I am not the only one who has to deal with and every single person can agree with me about the fact that it is, indeed, annoying. This is an issue that needs to be fixed because its inconvenience is tremendous. Another feature that could be worked on is the design of the app itself. I believe that it does not go well with current apps that are in the market. Its design is still blocky and the transitions between sections are grotesque. I believe more friendly, rounded and somewhat colorful sections within the app will help its aesthetic design.

super frustrating?. The only complaint I have for this app is the fact that I constantly am required to log in every 10-15 minutes after I’m not actively using the app. As a student I find this annoying and irritating. This app is nice, because it’s easier to navigate compared to when I log onto Blackboard on a browser on my phone. Please acknowledge this issue and maybe make plans to fix/update for us students. Maybe have a Touch ID option? That would be amazing. It’d be great if we could easily access Blackboard without having to log in every time we open the app. As a student, I am busy and always studying. Plus, I like to have this Blackboard app open when I take notes on my iPad in class. I can quickly get to my recourses on Blackboard, but I don’t do that anymore. I have to log in EVERY TIME and I do not have time to type in my email and password when a lecture is going on. Accessibility is significant.

Why do I have to login a million times!?. I have been using blackboard for my college courses for a few years now, and have had the same problem since the beginning. The Blackboard app makes me login every single time I want to use it. It’s super annoying to have to go through the entire login process multiple times a day just to check on assignments or grades. Every single person that uses blackboard has the same issue. I have used other apps such as canvas and never had a single issue. I work full time so I use this app and the notifications as a way of keeping track of assignments and knowing when new assignments are posted, but this issue has caused me to miss assignments because I was logged out and didn’t get notified when they were posted. Like I mentioned this is not a new issue, it has been going on for years. Also the blackboard app is not very user friendly and hard to navigate. You guys need to take some tips from other apps like canvas.

Challenging interface and compatibility. As a second year student using black board in college and for one year in high school I regret to say but the app is of pretty low quality. I primarily use Apple products such as my iPhone and iPad when I am not on campus with a windows readily available. When using the app on my phone, links inside course content will not open, files, .docx, PDFS, etc. are unable to be saved to my files app, and lastly the app just seems to be very glitchy and sub par. Even after working with my IT department there was still no resolve for any of the issues with the app. In order to do the things listed above, I have to first sign into my institutions page on chrome, then open black board from our schools site, and finally the things I need to download can be found there. I was excited when I learned about the app because I thought it was going to minimize the run around I have to do. It did not.

The “big update” was a huge downgrade. Last year, this app was finally usable after 4 years of mediocrity. The most recent update took all that progress away. I’m also getting logged out despite telling it to keep me logged in. The default option for grades (which are in a separate tab now, requiring more steps to access) is the “current” period, which you’d think is the current semester, but it’s not. It shows that I’m not currently enrolled in any courses until I go to the drop down menu and select fall 2022 (yet another step to access). There’s no way to pin this, so I have to make that selection every time I check grades, and even when I try to hit the back button to check grades for a different class—instead of taking me back to the fall 2022 screen, it goes to current, so I have to select the semester from the menu again. Things don’t update or load even if I’ve just gotten an app notification about them, either. This is honestly worse than just accessing the (slightly less terrible) desktop site through a browser on my phone. I don’t know why this app is so hard for developers to figure out.

Feels Like It Should Work, Doesn’t. My two main problems with the app are these: 1) Empty assignments. The reason I got any blackboard apps is because the website won’t show any assignment content/description on mobile devices, but for some reason that isn’t a problem fixed on mobile. So if you’re without a computer, you just straight up cannot see most of your assignment descriptions or attachments. 2) Doesn’t stay updated, even when it tells you it is. If I had a dollar for everytime I missed a minor assignment or announcement because I checked the app for one before class and it told me there was nothing new, I’d be rich. It’s not even that it will kick you out of a session and then not load you back in (though it does that too), its that it will do the little refresh at the bottom and give you the green check when it really has ended the session and has no new updates since you timed out. and theres NO WAY of knowing that unless youre smarter than me and have a good sense of when blackboard times out. I really peeves me. I almost gave it two stars because it looks nice and smooth and I felt like there were worse, but it literally just looks like it works. Like if had slightly worse graphic design (just graphic, because even functionally blackboard is an unorganized counterintuitive mess) then I would easily slam it into the ground. The website at least works, as dumb as it can be to use. The app doesn’t. Fix it, please.

Problems with taking tests and quizzes. For certain classes, it is important to have pictures to represent certain things. For my math class, I cannot see equations. For kinematics, I cannot see my diagrams. This problem occurred during tests and while I am away from the computer. Updating blackboard to be able to show these figures would make portability of classes much easier when a laptop is not accessible at certain moments of the day. I understand there’s online blackboard which can be utilized, but for convenience, not having the same usability on the app during pop quizzes and tests would be nice. I primarily use my iPad for homework and note taking so if I can use my iPad to take assessment tests then it would be a fantastic app... but I cannot so that’s why I can’t give it five stars.

such a frustrating app. I’ve used blackboard since I was in first grade and even then it was so frustrating to use! I am now a college student and I thought I escaped using blackboard but unfortunately I have not. I hate how old and un modern the website/app is just looking at it makes me unmotivated to do any work. Even my teachers complain about how much they dislike using Blackboard. I hate how you can’t customize anything. The app is slow and sometimes just doesn’t load anything in. The activity stream never works, instead it should just show upcoming assignments, and you should have a push notification/email for when grades are released. The calendar is AWFUL, just show the whole calendar with all the work due listed for each day! Submitting work is so painful and could be a lot more simple. PLEASE BLACKBOARD just make it more user friendly!!! or take some ideas from Canvas!!

Blackboard is only popular because it reached the market in the first wave. While this app is the backbone of schools in my region, they have been responsible for every grade of mine below an 90% due to their service being slow, time-consuming to learn thoroughly, and ineffective at training teachers who are forced to rely on the blackboard service. This app specifically doesn’t have a half of the capabilities we have on the computer, won’t even show an entire page of an assignment, makes it nearly impossible to find modules, won’t allow you to test or quiz (which I need since I work on an iPad and the mobile site is just as horrendous), and doesn’t support many basic functions we have come to expect. At times, it will only show certain assignments on the app, so when you log in on the computer, you see that there are many more parts or sections due. The discussion boards are old fashioned. It would be great to give those more of a feed-like feeling, rather than an assignment. I would like to get a notification if someone responds to my discussion, so I could reply back if they are asking a question. Since we are all online, I miss the type of classroom connections that Blackboard does not offer but plenty of other services make an effort to provide. I will be pushing my SGA to pressure our college to make the move towards Google Classroom. It’s time.

Would prefer to stay logged in. An app is supposed to an easier way to access a website. I would prefer not to have to put in my school website, and my login every single time Most companies that would like to maintain privacy, still allow quick and easy login with either FaceTime or a quick four digit pin. This app does not allow you to do that at all. You have to type in your email address and password and go to your school website and jump through the hoops. Every time you wanna look at some thing that was updated. It is less of a hassle to go to Safari and go through my school because that allows me to login with FaceTime and it is much quicker when I want to just take a quick peek at some thing this app is not good if you’re on the go and you’re a busy person. Period or you’re trying to make dinner for your kids if you wanna look at something real quick… Don’t use this app

Canvas is better.. I used canvas during my high school dual credit courses. I now use blackboard for my classes at university. Having used both, I would just like to say that blackboard should take notes from canvas. I find blackboard to be more complicated and confusing to navigate. I know that some of my problems have to do with my professors and their organization skills but some difficulties can be attributed to the app itself. I would like to see a more uniform template for each class. I would appreciate it if every class had the same basic tabs instead of the teachers picking a choosing. I think the teachers should be able to add tabs but be forced to use basic tabs like an assignment list. One feature that I really miss from canvas is being able to test out different grades in your classes. On canvas, you can test out different grades for assignments to gauge what your average might be if you were to make that particular grade. I hope that this feature will be added to blackboard soon because it is extremely useful.

Another error. Update: the service team for Blackboard is very responsive and helpful in fixing errors. I gave it time to make sure it remained functional. It provides me the ability to access coursework when I am away from my home so I can work on homework while waiting for appointments. Once again I’m receiving an error that won’t allow me to access my courses following a recent update. I first gave it time hoping another update would resolve this issue. When it didn’t, I deleted the app and started over like I did the last time this happened. Now my school won’t even show up when attempting to reload my account. The school is still using Blackboard- I am able to access via the website. Why can I no longer find the school to log into the app? Super frustrating!

2 years to fix annoying bug.. My comments don’t mean much in the sea of reviews, and BlackBoard already has its thousands of school contracts, so not like the reviews affect anything either. But the “Fixed a bug that frequently logged out users” fix took TWO YEARS to be solved. I’ve reported this issue several times since I began college. I am graduating and just now seeing it having been fixed. As someone who’s had to use the app several thousand times over the last couple years, typing in my 39-character email (yes, 39 characters) and 30 character password nearly every time has assuredly added up to dozens of hours of annoyance and wasted time, and time is of the essence as a college student with assignments due. Of course, there are at least 50 other minor issues I can think of, which add up to a major headache. I’ve also never met a classmate who hasn’t made comments about how abysmal the BlackBoard web platform and mobile app is. You seriously need to overhaul pretty much everything. Thank you, BlackBoard, for making my several-year college experience all the more painful.

App Never Functions Correctly. If 0 stars was an option, the Blackboard app would receive its well deserved 0 rating. Unfortunately, 1 star is the lowest rating available to be chosen. Despite frequent updates, the Blackboard app never functions correctly. The app continually crashes, has difficulty loading content, is slow to update grades and other pertinent course information, and frequently remains as a black screen (if it doesn’t completely crash) when attempting to access content. Additionally, the Blackboard app does not load all course content as it should, nor does it provide complete details about assignments like it does through a desktop. On the plus side, the app is adequate enough when it decides to work, especially when in need of particular reminders for a given course. As I am nearing the close of my academic career, it’s a shame the Blackboard app has never improved over the last 5 years.

For Such A Time As This!. I would like to make a personal note to both Professor McGinniss and Professor V. Also, Thank you Liberty University for having Spirit -Filled, God loving followers of Christ Jesus! There were times when I was going through and pressing my way through, believing as it is written in Luke 1:45. In those times unknowingly, both my Professors would send the weekly assignments and inspirational note of scripture. Those scriptures and encouraging words would connect and reaffirm what the Spirit of the LORD had spoken to me during my early morning prayer and worship! I am truly grateful for all the times I sought the LORD on leading and guiding me to fulfill the plans He predestined for me, and that I may sense His Blessed Assurance, Professor McGinnis and Professor V would continuously send the right scripture Affirming God’s Word! 🙌🏽🩸🙏🏽🔥⚓️ Blessings & Miracles! Angela Moody

Decent but not great. The app does a decent job with seeing assignments, notifying you (a bit late) when things are added to courses, and on some assignments it’s easy to do them right from the phone. However, it’s next to impossible to do the majority of assignments and you’d think by now it wouldn’t crash every 4 seconds trying to attach a file from your phone to bb so submit. I personally never use this feature, but I know people who have had to with COVID and it’s just frustrating. The most frustrating part for me, though, is the fact it crashes/freezes every times you open a notification for the app. I’m pretty sure it said a few updates ago this was fixed and it worked for a few weeks, but it’s completely back to how it was. So aggravating when you’re trying to view a major assignment grade on the fly.

Simplifies my life!!. The app is very user friendly and easy to navigate. I solely used blackboard on my laptop but had discovered my laptop broke the literal morning I started class, so I decided to download the app so I wouldn’t have to navigate blackboard on my phones browser and could more easily access my instructor’s pages. This definitely does the trick for that. The only issue I have is that the due dates tab is not fully accurate, at least for me. I have 3/4 of my classes online, so it really helps me to just click the “due dates” tap and be able to access each assignment that’s due soon. It may be due to the instructor, I have no idea, but I can see where my grades would become horrid after missing a few assignments every week. This was my first week of class and there were about 3 assignments that weren’t displayed, but I was aware of because of a syllabus or class discussion. Please make sure you’re paying attention and don’t rely solely on the app for that!! Otherwise, you may find yourself in a rut of 0 in the grade book. Aside from that, the app completely simplifies my experience with blackboard and I can’t believe I went 3 semesters without it.

I’d give it zero stars if I could.. It’s not just this app, either. It’s the whole website. It’s so clunky, it’s so irritating. Why can’t I check off assignments? Why do I get urgent reminders for things due soon that are a week away? Why can’t I watch an online presentation video on my phone? No picture. Just sound, and the phone screen goes to sleep and cuts it off after a minute. It’s absolutely agonizing to try and get anything done in 1 step with this program. Why do I have to download my syllabus every time I want to glance at it? Why can’t I click on something in the grades screen and have it take me to the actual assignment page? I just can’t believe it’s 2023 and this feels like a brand new program. Not only is it just not efficient, it’s actively difficult to complete things. Don’t even get me started on how you can’t complete a quiz on an iPad. I had to leave class and go to the library. Please. I’m begging you. Do better.

Worst App Ever. No university should use this garbage. I attend Savanah College of Art and Design and the following problems have been consistent across versions of Blackboard: You cannot view the course syllabus. You cannot save drafts. You cannot embed images into discussion posts. Course videos do not display; instead there’s a message that says you must allow third party tracking. And for a solid week, I haven’t been able to get into the app at all; efforts to log in only bring a message that the server cannot be reached. This company is the epitome of incompetence. And good luck trying to reach someone in customer service there. UPDATE: After a redesign, the app still has loads of problems. Files must be downloaded to view rather than opening in-browser, which is a problem when you’re in a creative writing class and constantly getting loads of classmate documents to review. Navigation is not intuitive. You can “save draft” now which is an improvement but still lots of other issues that make using the app cumbersome and time-consuming. Logging in and opening courses is a nightmare. You constantly get cycled back to a meta-menu homepage. Videos won’t screen unless you enable Blackboard to utilize three-party tracking- why? Until then you’re befuddled on why access is being denied.

Good but can be annoying. The app has worked fine enough for me on mobile. However one big annoyance is when I get an alert that content for something has been added on the app. I go and click the link only for me to have to log back into the device as if the app had been reset. This happens even when the app has been previously open and running in the background of my phone. Even after selecting all options to remember my log in data and also to not ask me again for a certain amount of time. None of that matters as it will still reset the app when I click on an alert to to open back up the app. The log in data can get very tedious to have to constantly do, as it will end up taking way longer to return back to the app just to look at something that was added on the app.

App is finally working great again!. **UPDATE: The app was working great until the second day of school this semester. It stopped working completely and after two days I deleted the app and re-downloaded it. Now it is telling me my school is not even on the list so I am unable to even login. When it works, it works great. Often times, it does not work at all! :( wish the developer would just fix it and leave it alone! UPDATE: blackboard has fixed the issue and the app is working great again so I revised my review to four stars! I would have gave them five but it did take over three weeks to fix the issue and I was unable to login during that time! Oh my, there seems to be an issue on our side. After I put my login information in it redirects me to the statement above wearing it says there's an issue. I reported it to the developer who then told me to contact my general IT helpdesk at school. The school has now put a ticket in with the problem. It's still not working after three weeks and I have been unable to use the app at all. When I first started using this app, it was great. I could post my discussions, assignments and take quizzes on here. But I now have been unable to access the app at all for three weeks. Please fix this issue and I will update my rating.

What is happening?. I use blackboard multiple times a day, and I carry my phone more than I do my laptop so, i thought I’d be easy to access my grades and homework much quicker. I was wrong. I always have issues with keeping my writing studios in frame to work peacefully and I, too, find it frustrating I can’t type journals or blogs directly in the app when it’s NOT IN FRAME, I rather use my browser than this app. Then it is common for the app to GLITCH and go back and forth between the login page to the one I was looking at...four or five times before 50% of the time telling me to log in again. It happens a lot it’s annoying. Finally, it does not resemble in content the browser version- it OMITS uploads my professors have put up and are seen in the browser and unexpectedly not found in the app. My Chemistry professor, for instance, uploaded a list of homework guides and due dates and I couldn’t see it anywhere on the app- I searched all the content files and NADA...I gave up.

Can’t even log in. I have no problems with blackboard as an organization. I think really I just hate this app with a passion, because every time I try and open it it takes way to long for it to load, and sometimes it even fails and says try again to no avail. This is in contrast to me going online THRU MY PHONE, and getting to my grades that way much faster. The app is just bad in my opinion I hate it; the GUI does not utilize/take into account phone screen size very well; the load time is way too long; and has never a single time remembered my login info. I would rather just go to the website where I know it’ll sign me in within 5 seconds of me accessing the website. This could be a result of my school, so I may be biased, but if you got this problem too you know what I mean. Just use your phone browser. It’s not worth wasting your time on this app. I’m not even sure if anyone will get anything out of this or if it’ll be read, but if developers are reading this please respond I would love to hear what you have to say for this.

It’s not as functional. I have used this app for years. But there are many things a student would need this for and it won’t work. #1 being the virtual classroom it often signs you out and the way it connected and you having to dial in for sound and it automatically connecting your mic is annoying I wish that would change. Also it doesn’t give the option to view and watch past recording in the virtual classroom which students may need. The one thing about the app I like is how grades are easily displayed and how you get notifications each time your grade is updated. All great but they need to work on the classroom especially now that everything is virtual students will be relying on this app. I also don’t like that you have to log back in each time or that a notification alert doesn’t take you to the assignment or grade directly does make it ver accessible

you had a good thing going.... a couple months I used to sign into this via my institution;I had a very enjoyable experience. My university required a password update, and so I did. When i come back to view my grades after some time away the app requires a sign in again. And , to my surprise the simple to access and vibrant colour coding interface for viewing my marks was gone. Instead lazily replaced ,with what I imagine , a more condensed browser “mobile “ version of the website. ,which looks jarring. I’m disappointed. To the argument for the redesign is accessible for creating viewing documents on the app is not good enough. During these difficult times, it is a necessity to have a computer or some device with desktop capabilities. Blackboard app is what i assume to be primarily for students, and most students have these devices. Some institutions may prefer to use “classroom,” why the latter choose to pay for a subpar service on grades and content access alludes me. The viewing of grades was so intuitive before this change. if you wanted a document accessible entity just create another app sole purpose is to upload. or download documents- a university dropbox if you will. call it I don’t know. “Spare sheet?” or “Archademia” or “ spare copy” or “ che-k manilla folder” since you like the classroom supply name game. I could even draw the logo if you wanted to. I can believe i’m this angry on this change , but here we are.

Can’t even open the app. First few weeks for most to go back to college? Great time to ruin your app, blackboard! I have no clue how they’ve screwed up this badly and haven’t fixed it yet. It used to be somewhat usable and had most features the website does. Starting a few weeks ago, you had to sign in EVERY time you opened the app (despite enabling face ID and “remember me”). Now, you cannot even log in to the app. The page glitches and refreshes when trying to type your password. If you can manage to type in your password before the page resets, it just loads for a while then takes you right back to the login screen. It’s been like this for a week now. Great wifi speed, plenty of storage on my phone. Phone and app are both up to date. Deleting the app and redownloading does not fix either. If you absolutely have to use blackboard (🤮), use it in your browser.

Blackboard is making me go crazy. The app is very annoying and needs a lot of work. Why is it so difficult to navigate in the app and what’s the point of asking me if I want to stay logged in if it never keeps you logged in. Everything is all over the place and unorganized. Like other people have mentioned you have to do so many clicks just to navigate through the app. There should be a column on the bottom that has the list of grades for every class. Also why is there a calendar on the app if nothing is synced to it automatically? What’s the point of me manually adding homework on the calendar if it takes so long just to log in to the app. I can just go on my own calendar at this point. Also if we get homework synced to the calendar if we can be able to download the calendar as well or if we can sync it to our iCal and Google calendar that would be great. I go to see what’s my upcoming work I need to do and it just gives me what’s due and the date even though I have already completed that work. It should at least have it crossed out or something with the due date. Instead of having it say “due in the next 2 weeks” it should just say “due soon” or “upcoming homework” because I have it telling me that there’s homework due in the next 2 weeks but it’s literally due in a few days. How does that make sense? This app makes me go crazy. Please fix this🙏🏻

Blackboard’s Text Editor Still Clunky, Ineffective. Just when I thought Blackboard’s clunky, awkward, and ineffective text editor couldn’t get any worse, the mobile app appears. While the mobile version of BB is very slightly more navigable than using Safari on the BB site, it is still such a clunky and non-intuitive interface! But nothing is worse than the 30-year-old look and feel of the ever-frustrating text editor. This editor barely qualifies as a WYSIWYG (Google it). Due to the instability of the text editor, it has always been necessary to compose my assignments in Word before pasting them into BB. This new app is the worst yet, however, for correctly displaying my writing. Cases is point, footnote numbers are bracketed rather than superscripted, paragraph spacing is greatly exaggerated, indentation is lost in translation, italics and bolding are removed from the text, font faces are substituted, font sizes are adjusted, etc.—the result, my Discussion Board posts look like a fifth grader trying to do graduate work. I have petitioned my institution to find a solution other than Blackboard for coursework submission, now I am imploring Blackboard to enter into the 21st century of computer programming. Please. I could live with all of the other oddities and quirks, if only BB had a decent text editor.

Reinstalled, and it’s different. I uninstalled because I was getting a server connection error message that made me think I was probably not updated to the freshest version of the app. When I reinstalled, I definitely got a newer version, but now every time I log in, I have to “web login” and it just logs me into the website version, but I don’t have web navigation buttons within the Blackboard app. I can’t go “back” to a prior page, as needed. Rather I have to close out of the app, log back in again, and navigate to the other page. It’s time-consuming and extremely clumsy. The older version that had more of a mobile feel was MUCH preferred. I might as well uninstall the app and just use Safari, instead. Please fix this! (Missouri State University)

It’s fine. In a word, I would describe this Ap as “Fine”. I don’t love anything about it and I don’t really think it does a great job at anything, or even a good job at anything. But it doesn’t do a bad job either. It allows one to see assignment due dates and grades and make submissions in a way that isn’t pleasant, but isn’t hard to figure out either. Some notes Give me a place to view my calendar regarding due dates, for all classes in one place. This would be huge and I cannot stress this enough. Similar vein, give me a place where I can see all of my grades at the same time. Less significant but would still be pretty good. Otherwise, maybe set it up so I can submit something from Google Drive/Notability/GoodNotes/Pages straight to an assignment, something that is possible with Canvas and Schoology. Set up the assignments so that I can see the rubric/goal of the assignment in the same spot that I submit the assignment. As is I have to go back and forth between the two and it’s annoying and adds steps. Could just be the way my professor has it setup, but if so all of my professors have done this so … Finally kinda buggy sometimes. File formats wont open, or not well within the app, and this is true with a lot of links as well.

Very Different From Computer App. I have so many issues with this app, I don’t even know where to begin. Majority of online college students need this app in order to do work, view grades, etc. but the mobile app never allows you to do these things. For example, my teacher has been posting for weeks and it has yet to show on the mobile app, saying the information is “coming” but never does. It doesn’t even allow you to click required links or folders. I have removed and reinstalled the app many times to see if that would do anything but it does nothing. On top of it not loading or being very user friendly (takes a while to understand), it’s like that for the teachers too. It’s a hassle honestly and not being able to do your work due to app issues can hurt your grades at no fault of your own. I hope these things are fixed in the future since it’s still a needed app when you’re in school.

Good but..... I use this app everyday for my university courses. This app is great but there are a couple annoyances about it that I’ve had that really frustrate me when I’m particularly stressed. The first one being that the app opens on the “Activity Stream” rather than my “Courses” tab and there is no setting to change this. I would like the ability to move the buttons in the left menu tab freely to the user’s liking, as well as, choose which tab the app opens on within settings. The second annoyance being that upcoming due assignments are not marked as completed after submitting them. They remain in the upcoming assignments section. This can become rather stressful when there are over 15 assignments from various classes due throughout the week and you are unable to view which assignments you have or have not completed yet. Overall this app seems to be user friendly but there are major adjustments that can be done such as incorporating a dark mode as well.

This is not it!. I’ve had this app since I started college and though the design was poor I had very few complaints. Now at the beginning of my spring semester I’ve updated it and I’ve regretted it every time I had to use the app. First and foremost, as a college student having to always log in is annoying and time consuming. It would be appreciated if we can log in by Face ID, Touch ID, or even a 4 digit pin. Second, it’s annoying that you can accidentally log out of the app by hitting the wrong x. To add its also annoying that if you go look at a syllabus or any link you can not go back to BB you have to logout and log back in. It is frustrating and caused me to not even want to do my work because I’m scared I’ll get logged out in the middle of working and have to log back in. Third, the app does not let you see full assignments and then freezes when trying to scroll. It would be nice to be able to see all of the assignment being that I use this app on the go.

App is trash. The UI/UX of this app is abysmal, unpleasant to look at, extremely difficult to navigate. Previous school used Canvas which was amazing compared to BB. Fixing the user interface would be a great start. The courses tab always loads my “current” courses, but it’s actually a list of every course I’ve ever taken. If I accidentally tap on a course that has ended I have to wait forever for the app to tell me it can’t load the course. Menu items are buried in cumbersome sidebar that is easy to miss. Grades and assignments take way too many clicks and are stored in very different locations. Nothing is linked - I should be able to easily navigate to different course components without backing up to the main screen. There is no way to select any preferences, for instance, whenever I open the app I am dropped in the announcements page rather than courses - this should be a choice. The interface is absolutely hideous - it reminds me of a geocities webpage from the 90’s. Finally, many components of the app are cumbersome. It’s very difficult to access pdfs and some portions of the app open an in app browser without the open to open in a local browser. I find it exceedingly frustrating that BB hasn’t made a single attempt to improve this app in many years - hopefully major Universities will start taking their business to better platforms because this app shows a company that has no incentive to improve their product.

Update has made things more difficult. I like what seems to be the improved speed and and streamlined appearance of the app but it has, but this update has created far worse issues. The new update takes away all the taskbar functions and assigns only the ones that it believes are most important. This has made getting to the grades screen very cumbersome. There is no way to rearrange what is shown on the bottom task bar, as I would love to get rid of calendar and put grades there instead. In the grades screen there is also no way to favorite current classes to keep them up top. This is a problem because the current courses include any courses that professors have not closed to students view so they remain in the section forever. If you manually click the current semester you are enrolled it such as fall 2022 it always defaults back to current courses every time the screen is changes. The courses screen avoids this by allowing favorites.

Inconsistent with the website. The app is where I go to when I need to *briefly* check something, because it does NOT offer full functionality. Sometimes the site will crash, and I’m able to attend class on the app, which is nice. HOWEVER, it fails to show a lot of the graded items in the gradebook, and I’m not able to interact with it to see the details, which is severely disappointing. So not only does it not show all of the assignments, but I can’t see what my teacher left as feedback to see what I got right or wrong!! It’s very annoying!! Also, on the activity stream, it usually won’t update, as in it will show me notifications from a few weeks or months ago, but not the most available or recent notifications from recently. Not to mention that notifications will reappear after I’ve dismissed them. It’s very irritating. Lastly: it doesn’t allow me to manually reload pages. I’ll try dragging the page down to update it, but it usually won’t work at all. If there is a change, I have to close out the app, reopen it, and recheck it, which takes a significantly longer amount of time than just simply refreshing the page. So yeah. The app is technically functional, but it does a pretty bad job at it. This is a very large inconvenience for students who can’t access the desktop site and must rely on the app. Please fix the app.

Why use The app when I can access more on the website through my mobile browser. Honestly, this app is only good for reading updates from professors and even that is sometimes not great. Easier to read them from my email sometimes. My main problem with this app is I can’t view all content that would show up on the website while doing modules, I can’t take quizzes which doesn’t make sense because it is just clicking a multiple choice or typing an answer, and when looking at grades I can’t view the item that was graded nor see what a professor has commented about my work. I am better off using the safari browser to do work on my iPad than using this app. And my ultimate problem is I have to log in EVERY TIME I want to access the app. No option to remember log in information yet it can send me updates ? Doesn’t make sense, it’s my device and no one else is using it, I should have the option of being able to stay logged in.

It won’t leave my logged in.... There was a recent update that caused problems for me. The biggest reason I am giving this a 3 star is because the app will not keep me logged in to my account. Every time I open the app, it makes me re login through my schools site. If I have to do this, I’ll just load my schools site and access it through there. The beauty of this app beforehand was that it kept you logged in and all you had to do was launch the app to view grades and courses instantly. Personally, I liked the old version much better as of now. I don’t like the way you view grades now either... just seems a little cluttered. I liked how the older version displayed your grades, just seemed easier to read. On a positive note for this new update, it does make accessing other aspects of blackboard easier through a mobile source.

A must for online or students on the go.. I have used blackboard in both my junior college and now my upper level school (ASU), and the app has been a tremendous help. It all depends on what course you are taking and how much the instructor utilizes things such as discussion boards. With that said I work full time, and I have been able to participate in many group discussions required for class, and see important announcements and assignments all while on my phone. This has eliminated the need to be tethered down to a computer. In fact I even did a whole months assignment while on vacation with my family using this app. I took one star away because there are some interactions such as email and formatting differences between the app and the web version that lead to not having the ability to do all I can do from the web. TL:DR this is a great app to have on your smart phone if your school uses blackboard.

Great Update Giving Everything We Asked For!!!. This app worked okay on a mobile phone for quickly and easily accessing school classes and information. However, it was not great for actually working from and completing school assignments. That has all changed now! The latest update has solved so many problems that we had and made the app a great tool to actually work and submit assignments from! I can use landscape mode from my iPad, type and submit assignments, use the discussion board, even watch videos...its great. Thanks for listening to our feedback and improving this app for all of us who use it on a daily basis. You just made my schooling and experience with Blackboard 100% better. I am thrilled!

Good for Announcements, but not much else. The app opens and lets you select your class just fine, and it will show you the sections the course is categorized into but it won’t actually load the content of those categories. This is particularly bad with the homework and grade aspects. There is a category for homework due this week, but it doesn’t actually load in homework that is coming up by itself. In order for it to be able to pull this information you have to individually load every section of the course. only then will display the upcoming assignments, otherwise it just says that there’s nothing to due. Furthermore, if you miss homework, you won’t necessarily see it reflected in the grade at the top of the page. similar to the homework, it only counts the assignments if you load every single one individually and the due date has passed. This means that if you got a 100% on your first homework assignment, your grade will be a 100% at the top of the page, even if you’ve missed every single assignment afterwards until you reload every single thing from the class. Only then will the grade at the top of the page reflect what you actually have.

Buggy + Balky. I usually delete any app with this many bugs, but I have to use it for grad school. Why it's buggy: Too often when I re-open it (because you can't stay logged in, as others have noted), it either freezes or gives me a false error message. Once open, it's slow to update; 5 minutes can pass before new grades or other additions show up. And Discussion threads often fail to load, or it won't load my posts after I submit them. All of this is troublesome because "try again later" is not an option when you're on deadline. Why it's balky: The app doesn't allow split screen, one of the iPad's most useful features. The "Activity Stream" is pointless yet remains the mandatory default open page, while too many clicks are required to get to a page one actually cares about (and repeatedly visits). When writing a reply in Discussions, it's impossible to see the original post one is replying to. Pasting text into Discussion posts (unless in plain text?) eliminates kind-of-important elements like apostrophes. There's no way to tailor notifications. There's no way to modify and correct "overdue" notifications for assignments that aren't necessary or were turned in late. What's needed: Less freezing and faster uploads. More tailoring options, including a "Favorites" list. More control over notifications. A neater Discussion interface.

Fix your MOBILE app. I was thinking this app would be great! I could do my homework in between travel to my jobs and busy schedule. I was really looking forward to being able to do just that. I was wrong! This app’s user interface is great. I can easily see my current classes and next classes coming up. And I can see my grades! My grades update in real time but that is it. None of the other tabs load or become viewable on your mobile device. I get a rejection to try again later on my smart phone as the problem is on their end. Very frustrating as I was looking for an app that would work with me and my busy life as a working, family oriented student. But clearly that isn’t going to work. Yes I’ve got the most recent version of the app, I’ve had it for 3 months now, hoping it would actually work one day. The app would easily be 5 stars if it actually worked!!! Everything looks great from a visual standpoint and I can easily access course content, discussions and everything you would need. But the content inside those tabs doesn’t load so I can view any of it that I can on my computer.

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Improvements. I find that most of my course is based through the discussion board. We don’t have access to our tutorial groups, or the individual group board. This means that the app is almost worthless for me at the moment. It is helpful at times, but certainly not at the level I need.

Complaint resolved. Earlier I complained that watching videos was not possible, but now this has been resolved. Giving you a 5 start rating to make up for it! Thank you

It's great but keeps asking me to log in. As the title states as of yesterday the update keeps asking me to log in even though all of my files are accessible. I'm sure it won't be too hard to fix but it's getting really annoying.

Great app. Only bugs I’ve found are when opening a link that requires signing in from the announcements page.

Big improvement over the previous version. This version of the app is far better than the previous version. It’s fast, simple and easy to navigate. And the iPad version is great. Being able to print directly from the app is also convenient

This is a disaster. I don’t understand the point of an app that wastes your time. It is quicker for me to get in my car, head to the library, wait three hours to use a computer and log in to learnline than it is trying to find any sort of helpful information in this mess of an app. But i do appreciate the long list of assignments due under “stream” instead of being able to see recent announcements. At least I won’t forget when they are due! Oh wait, yes I will. Because I can’t use this app for anything else so will stop seeing the list!

Doesn’t play lecture videos. Last week it stopped playing lecture videos and says my cookies are disabled, which they’re not. You need to login every 5 minutes and then it logs you out. Tried everything with uni tech support, but the app is unusable. Emailed Blackboard, never heard back

Not worth the trouble. There may be slip between what the platform can or is intended for and what I’m seeing. However, forums which don’t highlight unread posts (or prioritise them) and a stream which has all sorts of garbage in it, does create a pointless app. Please have a platform worth using somewhere.

When open on iPad always blacks out. After logging in on the app the screen goes black and then goes out of the app and whenever I try to open it the app always closes down after opening the first screen. Very bad and unhelpful.

Can’t log in. The app won’t allow me to log in even though the same login details work fine on the browser. After reading other reviews I can see many people have had the same issue for at least the past year - I guess it won’t be fixed anytime soon. The app is useless, unfortunately.

Can’t access my modules. This app is frustrating at best. I can’t keep deleting the app everytime it stops working - when I click on a module it says - forbidden 401? No idea what this means, the only way to fix issue is to delete app and reload it. It then works first time, but not the next time I go into module.

The worst. The worst app! I can't access all the functionalities available online through the app. Slow to load and has a super rigid unnecessary structure that doesn't exist if you use a browser. I go to my grades to check my marks and it says no grades available when I know they're they're released. Now I gotta wait tipl I go home and see my grades on my laptop!!!

So much better than the old version!. This app makes using blackboard on a mobile device a breeze. Great app, highly visual, easy to navigate. Thanks!

It was great but now it’s not.. I have been using this app for over a year now and it’s getting irritating. A few months ago, every time I opened it, it would send me to the webpage of my uni rather than the app. I deleted and redownloaded it, and it worked fine...for a while. Now, every time I open the app I have to log on again. I used to only have to do this every few months - not every day. This needs to be fixed. It’s infuriating.

Always log me out. This is so bad, after the new update, it just always log me out, and I have to login again and again when I want to use the app, it’s basically useless to me now as I can just use the website

Emails. Blackboard is very helpful and easy however I would like for emails to be available in the future if possible.

Best Online Portal Ever!!. It’s just phenomenal! I receive notifications directly on my phone for each of my subject so I never miss an assignment.

The BEST app for education. This app is highly recommended, I personally think every school should use this app, it’s easy to go to websites, documents, books or anything you want in just a couple of clicks. Also, what really matters, is that there are no distracting adds all over the place like some apps have, that are distracting young kids from their tasks. To teachers, you really need this app for a easy life working for a school, it really helps

compatible with iPhone x Now!. This app is finally compatible with iPhone x now! And it comes with notification when materials are uploaded. Nice and useful development, much much better than previous version. But it is still not perfect though as the notification is a little bit lag.

Still waiting for a fix. When I first started using this app, I loved how user friendly it is. Now due to an update a few months back, I don’t receive notifications, always have to log in again via the web browser in the app. I’ve been using Chrome on my phone instead of this app while I wait for the a update on the app. There seem to be an update last week that fixed nothing.. ??

Fantastic app. I love the app and certainly an easy way to access the classes. Love the update which is much easier to use.

Bring back the old feature version. It is disappointing that the new updated version is not really convenient, especially the display of activity stream (announcements). Much better with the old version, where the updates are displayed straight away rather than have to multiple click to get the updated news! It is also more convenient with just “One Click” to get access to the regarding units rather than have to go to the units sections again for quick access. I wish I can downgrade the apps. The updated version should be more useful and convenient for access rather than difficult/complicated. I wish I could not have done the updates. Hope this can be considered by the team.

Great Potential. Average Execution. Hey guys! Great app if you want to view some content on the go! However, this app could offer so much more. The iPad version is a bit frustrating since you can’t split screen with another app limiting workflow. You are either watching the lecture, or annotating, no in between. The app is also a little slow at times and seems very clunky, especially when logging in. I think it does the bare minimum, allows you to view work, but it definitely doesn’t allow me to learn on the go. :(

Why does it have to be iOS 11 or above. It's a little frustrating that I can't download the app on my iPad 2 because that means I can't study with it. Please fix it and allow iOS 9 or so to access it. There is no complicated mechanism in this app so I don't understand why it needs to be over iOS 11. Just let me download and use this app thanks.

Glitches. This app needs an upgrade. It has been glitching, shutting down, repeatedly asking for my password before glitching and kicking me out of the app again. Also needs to have a tick box option for when a recording has been listened to or content read

4 yeahs, 1 nah. I wish I had gotten this in my first semester of uni. 4 stars only because sometimes the readings are sometimes very thin columns of a few words. It makes reading hella difficult. Not sure if this is a coding issue (blackboard itself)or an upload of text issue (my university being derpy).

Important features missing. 2 features I think are vital are the share button when opening up a browser in-app to be able to save PDFs and second is to ENABLE split screen on iPad. All students and teachers need split screen functionality.

Need improvement. Pdf work just fine here. However ppt cannot be open in this app & i cannot open reading online idk whether it’s only for university of melbourne student or students from other institution experience this as well.

Black board. This app is so helpful for students ,you just login when never you want and wherever you are through your Mobil phone .Its awesome 😊

Not allowing log on. This app was working well I have had it for three years and love it. But in the last week I have not been able to log in to my institution, it says it will take me to my university log on and then it’s just the spinning wheel for ages and does nothing. Tried to seek help and can not seem to find the issue to have it resolved.

Blackboard's good, the app is not.. As the title says. Limited functionality compared to viewed on a laptop browser. Can you not put more effort in? Main gripe right now is how poor the "collaborate" function works in the app... worse yet you cannot watch collaborate recordings at ALL. What a joke.

Utter Rubbish. This app is so counter-intuitive!!! It takes 4 clicks from the home screen to get to the Collaborate lecture room. Unbelievably frustrating when apps are meant to have a simpler and user-friendly interface. In terms of showing other content, tables are screwed up and show up as one scrambled clump of words and numbers. Plus the app has not been optimised for iPhone X. Bring back the last version which was much simpler and user-friendly! This app is awful.

Dismissed alerts keep coming back. Since the last update alerts that have been dismissed keep appearing again next time I open the app. It started with just one, then two then I decided to try deleting and reinstalling the app after which I now have to clear off 15 alerts every time I open the app. Please make dismissed alerts stay dismissed again.

Don’t use this app. I try to download the original files of the lecture slides so I can annotate them on my iPad and the app glitches and drops out. I’ve tried their website as well and it send me to a frozen think. Very annoying when trying to do uni

Poor replacement. This is a very poor replacement for the Mobile Learn app that was available previously. In addition that app no longer works with iOS 11 so we can’t go back. And where is the iPad version? Hmm? Very poor strategy Blackboard. I expected more of you.

Messages are useless. This app would be really useful if I could create messages in it! As it turns out I have to sign in to Blackboard through Safari if I need to contact my tutors when I'm away from a computer, which is not convenient at all! I redownloaded this app after taking a year off study, hoping this issue had been resolved, and I was frustrated to see that isn't the case. Please fix this, thank you! The Safari mobile version of blackboard is really inconvenient to navigate but it's my only choice

Web login experience is terrible. My uni requires a web login, once I navigate into a presentation or other section of an online class my only option to navigate back is to exit the logged in page and start from scratch. This is incredibly distracting and a very poor user experience. I can’t confidently view content because I know that afterwards I will have to exit everything, lose my place, and log in all over again.

Dreadful app. Basically no functionality at all. It's better to use the non mobile friendly website than this train wreck of an app. Considering how big their market share is in Australia it's unbelievable that a company like this would have such a poor app when their target market has such a high level of mobile use.

Multiple notifications of the same stuff.. I keep receiving multiple notifications of the same stuff over and over. Got over 80 of them for 3 events. I would appreciate a bug fix. Thanks!

Blackboard as an app is slow, clunky and buggy. As a platform is not overly user friendly, no on the app version is awful. You constantly have to clerics, load, go back and reload to see content. It’s not seamless with links to other content also and kicks you out. If you’re used to using the web browser this will be a headache. If you’ve only ever accessed it via the app I’m feeling sorry for you.

3.0 is no improvement. The update to 3.0 is no improvement to this app. You just don’t seem to understand that this is a design fail from the previous version no longer supports by iOS 11. We are university students, and need to be able to rapidly access volumes of information on the web version of Blackboard, which this app is not equipped to process. This app does not improve my study experience in anyway. Just upgrade to compatibility issues in the previous app version, and give us back what was working so effectively.

Updates kills login. When working this app is convenient but lacks full functionality. Unfortunately every time I update the app, I am logged out and have trouble logging back in. The last time I had to completely delete the app from my phone and then reinstall. I now actively avoid updating this app until I have time to resolve the consistent login bugs which come with each updated. Please pick up your game and perform some quality R&D, testing the app before releasing.

Doesn’t allow you to open files. The app will not allow me to open PDF files in other apps. For example, on my iPhone when I click on the square with the arrow for sharing options the app freezes and nothing happens. All of a sudden stopped working a week ago and very frustrating.

Can’t log in after update. This app is great and helps heaps with uni life while out and about. But since the last update that was meant to fix the login issue I still can’t login. I have tried several times but still no luck. So now the app is useless.

Please create a split screen option. If you could creat an option for blackboard to work in split screen mode on the iPads it would make for a better experience as taking notes on another app while reading your lecture notes on BB would be a lot easier than switching back and forth.

Looks ok, but not useful for actually studying on a device. Good app for seeing information. HOWEVER, huge drawback is the inability to split screen with my word processor on my ipad Pro. This will result in me not using the app as I can’t take notes while reading slides. Consider the student when designing or updating app. Furthermore, it wouldn’t even let me submit feedback in the feedback section regarding this issue.

Not sure of the point of this app now. When I downloaded this app last year it seemed very user friendly, I could access everything and see all my subjects like I should be able to on a phone app. Now, it sends me to login through my uni and then shows me logged in as though I’m on a desktop. It’s like the app doesn’t accept the login then go back to the blackboard, it just goes forward to the desktop login. Hopefully this can be fixed!

Such easy access. At times you just want to log in quickly, and if you only have a desktop, this app just makes life easier ♥️

Gone backwards. The app needs to be more accurate in the grades centre. I cannot view my final grades from previous units and all overall grades say unavailable. The previous app enabled you to have current units at the top of the list, now it’s in alphabetical order. I feel like this app has gone backwards. Needs to be more user friendly.

Change it back.. This app was clean, easy to use and you only had to long on once. Now it asks me to log in every time I look away from the app and just loads the website version which is cumbersome so navigate on a phone. It also often crashes if I try to use some aspects of the app. If I could undo the update I’d be happy and it would be a 5 star app once again.

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Fix this app. I have to login every time I open an attachment and once you close it back to the login screen, the old app was much better this is pathetic, how does one learn when having to log in every 5/10 minutes

Worst app. It doesn’t work at all

Having to log in every time is stupid. Why does this dumb app sign me out every time I use it? At least have a fast sign in option rather than me having to lookup my school email every time to use the damn app.

Just closes. About 3 days ago, in line with the last update, the app stopped working on my iPad. My iPad is up to date, the app works on my phone, i just closes after the initial Blackboard screen. I hope you fix the bugs soon, using my iPad and the app was the best way for me to work without lugging around my computer everywhere.

I get logged out everytime. Why do I have to login every time. I can rather use it on google where I can at least autofill the password. PLEASE FIX THE APP.

Update is terrible. The login process was already too cumbersome but at least you only had to do it once a day. The update forces login on us every time we open the app now.

I am not happy as I need to log in again frequently.. I am using this app since 1 and half year, I like the calender, It gives access to all the lectures. Also I am getting everythin at the same platform, like I can see my grades, and it gives access to all the assignement and it’s due date. the only trouble it has is it asks for the log in detail everyday.

Useless. This app is completely useless. Sometimes I can’t even log in, it’s laggy, and always signs me out. TIP FOR EVERYONE ELSE: just open blackboard on safari, it works a lot better on the browser and keeps me logged in for longer.

Boohoo. Bad

Annoying, using browser is way better. Signs out, some documents don’t display, can’t support split screen. What’s the point of having an app when you can’t take notes and look at lecture slides at the same time.

………. What a terrible update! Keep user sign up every time ???

Please Fix. Please keep us signed in. I am really frustrated when I have to login every time I launch the app. It did not use to be like this. Thanks

Logs you out each time. It’s annoying to keep get notifications and have to keep logging for each of them!!!

Does not open anymore. Its better to just open blackboard on a browser

Won’t even log me in the app. Unable to log into the app, won’t give me notifications, and keeps me on the web browser. Poor app.

Terrible, Cant Open. This terrible app cant open on iphone 6sp even after reinstall, stuck openning screen

Does not deserve current 4.5 rating. App barely works, tons of bugs and glitches. Might as well buy a laptop instead of using this app because it's borderline useless. Opening the app from a notification is guaranteed a crash, exiting the app and coming back to it later is guaranteed a crash. Developers don't care for the app anymore- highly don't recommend. Read every recent review, you'll see what I mean.

App keeps logging out. App asks to log in every few hours. It’s really exhausting to use a web login with 2FA. Please fix it. This was not the case a few months ago.

The app will not stay open.. It’s really irritating having to log in every 10 minutes; now, I’m unable to open the app. I’m not sure what to tell my professors. Please fix this as soon as possible.

Bad version. The new version is disgusting. I have this app only because of College otherwise I never keep such a garbage in my phone but thank God my college is going to end in a week. Never download this rubbish in my mobile again

Please keep me logged in. Please keep it logged in.. its very hard to log in every time… it feels like I am using the browser, not the app

It was fine before the update. Unable to download slides, having to log in every single time, and it’s annoying to use the web format

Signing me out every second. It literally signs me out every 2 hours.

This is not user friendly. I have to re-login every time I open a document. It’s the worst app I’ve used and there needs to be massive improvements.

Horrible app. Super glitchy, always freezes and kicks me out. Definitely needs a major update

Web login every time is trash. Previous version looks like app This update does what other browsers do. So it doesn’t make sense using app when we can do same in safari.

The app is cracked when i sign in. The app cracks and closes immediately after sign in into my account

Sign in issue. Please keep us logged in it is a big issue every time it takes me to Weblogin it’s so frustrating.

Login mess. Its annoying to login each time. Whats the purpose of an app?

Signed me out mid-test. Whoever thought that it is ok to sign someone out mid-test and not let them complete the test is a walking advertisement for birth control. Blackboard falsely suggests that I closed the tab that I opened the test on, absolutely false. It is mind blowing how someone could be so unbelievably stupid to let this happen, F*** you blackboard

Terrible. App doesn’t even open anymore, tried everything. Makes you login every time you use it as well. Not a good app. Stay away

Fix pls!. I have to re-login every time... If the app even opens!

Crash. Keeps crashing after the recent update. App does not open at all. Thank you so much I am gonna pass in my courses with a 100% for sure!

Horrible after the update. Since blackboard has updated the app is super glitchy, announcement section is probably the worst part.

This is horrible. No longer works on my iPad for school what a waste

trash. not sure when this app became complete garbage but last year it was working just fine. all of a sudden i've got to log in every time and the app is basically just the webpage... but opened through an app. super annoying and crappy, i wish i never updated it

Fix This Please. The app on my ipad keeps glitching and blacking out PLEASEEEE FIX THIS OMG

App change. Ive used this app for over a year, never had any issues.. that is up until now when I got signed out and now it wont let me select canadian schools when logging in.. only ones from the states… super annoying. Please get this fixed

Not as good as before. I used to directly download course documents from Blackboard mobile app on my iPad, but now I have to open on my laptop to download.

HATE THE NEW UPDATE. I didn’t like the new update. Pls keep us signed in!!! It is so frustrating to enter our email and password if we mistakenly press the close button

Waste of time signing me out. This app will sign you out every minute and you will waste lot of time just signing in and doing double authentification with an other app. It is so backward.

Always logging out. Can you please keep the blackboard signed in

Send Help. Would've been a useful app for students if it didn't have limited options and l...o...ng.... loading periods.

Login.. Why should I login every time I open the application? That's frustrating.

Won’t load. This app was working okay, then I had to log in every time I went on and now it won’t even load in, the screen stays black and does not work whatsoever.

Trouble. I’m, trying to long in on my iPad 10 generation and updated the new iOS 17.2 , and it won’t let me find my institution which is Seneca College why is this a problem.

Annoyed. Please I’m so tired of logging back in every time I come out. Please fix this

Needs optimizing for iPads. Could you please optimize this for use on iPads? The old blackboard app was amazing. wonder why they removed support for it.

Issues resolved. App works more smoothly now without requiring me to login every time.

Needs improvement. Blackboard ultra is ultra more problems. I got frustrated when I’m out and I can’t look at the app on my phone because I say "remember me for 30 days" but every time I go on I’m logged out. It freezes. I can’t even submit the feedback through the app cause it just freezes. It’s not user friendly for students or faculty. Overall super disappointed with the app… Do better.

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Worse update ever. I have used black board the last five years and had a pretty good relationship with never gave me issues super easy to use the app but it’s newest update is awful it doesn’t keep you logged in on the app and every time you want to open a different tab it closes you out and makes you log back in to go to a different page even it’s web browser format doesn’t let you have open multiple classes or tabs for the same course to reference different parts of the courses curriculum how did they think this was an improvement??? I would like the old black board back because the newest version doesn’t help me with keeping tabs on my course all it does is make it more difficult to access their information.

Nearly unusable. Blackboard can be frustrating at times on desktop, but at least it can be considered “functional.” Blackboard on mobile, however, is a different beast entirely. The app is slow, unresponsive, and tedious to use. Every time I go to my courses page, I have to manually select the term because otherwise it shows me every class I’ve taken since I started 4 years ago. Additionally, the activity stream refuses to update, even after refreshing it and restarting the app. This is especially frustrating on iPad, where I expect to be able to work on, finish, and submit assignments without having to move them to a desktop or laptop computer first. The only credit I can give Blackboard’s mobile experience is that it allows me to export my calendar through iCal so I don’t have to interact with this garbage app more than I absolutely have to.

Terrible Course Management Application. This app is one of the worst course management software apps that I have ever experience. I have experience with both Canvas and Sakai, and both features much better applications. This app's layout is not intuitive and vastly differentiates itself with its own website. Ive come across many glitches with accessing course documents in the app which work in other mediums of access. The website on my phone is better, however with my tablet i am forced to use the app (because in the website when you click on the blue tab that shows the different course pages, you cannot scroll down because the menu will instantly close). For students who pay thousands in dollars towards these software applications, the app has lots to be improved.

Upgrade ruined the app. I used to love this app to view my classes and grades on the go, however a recent update has made it less accessible or helpful. Upon opening the app, it brings you to “current classes” which for me shows everything that I’ve taken in the last three years in alphabetical order, that’s a lot of classes and is not at all current. From there you can scroll left or right to change which semester you’d like to see. There is no way to hide past classes or change this. It seems small but the change was pointless and seeing as that you can’t access old classes on the app there is absolutely no point in storing these shells on the app. I honestly went back to using black board on my laptop because it’s so frustrating. I prefer the old set up where the classes/semester you were currently enrolled in was the first thing pulled up in the app.

Brings me to Hvcc site. This app was awesome and useful, until one day I logged in and it brought me to the Hvcc site. The layout looked like how it was supposed to at first and then considering that you have to log in every single time you open the app I logged in and boom brought me to the blackboard site and now I can’t choose my “activity stream” or any of that which was very useful to me. Now it’s just a “Hudson valley” app since it doesn’t even show up as the app itself after I log-in, it’s like I went to safari and typed it in there. Very hard to navigate and read everything. Pretty frustrated because my gf’s was fine and I tried it on hers and then boom again comes up the site and not the app and now hers is messed up even when she logs in with her info. Any help would be great, makes absolutely no sense to me why this is happening

Submission Delay. I like this for the convenience of being able to scan my work into a document (via iPhone notes app), save it, and then submit it through this app without needing to use multiple devices. BUT, I submitted a document last week before it was due, only it never fully submitted until last night apparently when I needed to reopen and use the app again. I was penalized because the document was technically submitted late. This app is convenient, but be sure that you receive a confirmation email soon after submissions to be sure it is connecting well to your data/wifi. I’m frustrated that the app wasn’t able to continue working in the background to stay updated on my assignments.

Doesn’t work with iOS operating system!. With so many people owning iPhones today, you would think this app would be compatible with iOS systems. This app is crap without being able to use it for iPhone. It’s been years, guys! In all these years, you cannot make it compatible? In the words of the fake president…”Come on, man!” And just to be clear, everyone knows Trump won and the vaxx is a poisonous bioweapon made from king cobra snake venom, not bats. They are putting it in our food and water, which is why they are monitoring our waste water systems to predict Covid outbreaks. How do you treat snake bites? Why, with monoclonal antibodies, silly. How do you remove snake mRNA technology from the body? Well, you don’t because it’s impossible to remove. Don’t believe me…Ask yourself if it has ever been fact-checked. There’s your truth! Soak it in. It feels good to set your mind free. Now, praise God and keep fighting the good fight. 💪🏽

Please for the love all that is holy.. Please. For the love of God rethink this new update. The experience is now so much worse. I really how simple it used to be just to hide specific classes I don’t want to see. Now that feature seems to be gone. Furthermore, the pictures above the courses is completely unnecessary and really just is awful to look at. I really liked how my classes were a simple list that just had the names of my classes. Now, it’s a mess of unrelated pictures and my school logo. It’s hard to even differentiate classes from one another at times (obviously I can just read the name of the class). The point is, the pictures are unnecessary and add no benefit to this portion of the app. Filtering classes should include more filters as well. Overall, this update from an appearance and user friendly standpoint, leaves much to be improved.

FIX THIS PLEASE. I’ve never had any problems with this app up until now. About four days ago I went to log on through my phone because I use the blackboard app on my phone for different things considering it’s a lot more organized than the one that shows up on my computer. When I logged in to blackboard on my phone it took me to the blackboard that I see on my computer which is not what I see on my phone. The app is acting as if I am logging on through the Internet and not using the app itself. I need this to go back to how it was so I can actually do most of my work. I use this app so I can check with my work is due and also to do my discussion post. As of right now I’m not sure how I’m going to complete those so please fix this issue.

Serious issues. I like to participate in my classes on a daily basis which means I need my phone whenever I get some downtime and I’m away from my laptop. Problem is that I can’t participate in discussion questions and most of the time I get an “x” at the bottom of my screen that says “somethings not right”. Early versions of this app were buggy by I was able to get by. Now this app isn’t catered to anyone. Solutions: -Fix the problem with the discussion board. -Allow students to post assignments without having to go back through the web page to make sure they were submitted, because it never loads out to a confirmation page. Edit: -Cannot participate in discussion boards which is why I wanted the app. -app still crashes when you open it from time to time. -modules for the current week of assignments in corrupted and fails to open up always. UPDATE -still cannot participate in discussion boards -modules are still corrupted. -app crashes from time to time still UPDATE 3 -App still not letting me participate in discussion board nor is it letting me reply to discussions. Update 4 -App still will not let me participate in discussions. Whenever I go to select a thread, the screen opens and the bottom says “somethings not right”. Contacted app support and they still have not gotten back to me.

I love it but just wish it had .... First of all lemme tell ya ... I love this app !!! It’s easy, I don’t have to log in every time, I know where my classes and grades are, etc... but I wish that it displayed all assignments in each grade book instead of just the graded ones! Also it would be nice to set up some way in the settings on BB to notify my phone when something has been graded ... yet again I’m electronically challenged so if that’s already a thing then I apologize but I haven’t found a way to do that in my own phone settings or the apps. Another thing that bothers me is that the app gets glitchy pretty often but I’m sure there’s updates to fix that. Any way ... overall this is a 4/5 ! Pretty great app !

Excellent App for using Blackboard. When comparing the website and the app, the app wins almost every time. There are many features within the app that make it easier to use. The app design is simple and very easy to navigate unlike the website, having tabs to organize classes and grades, as well as providing you with the same information on the website with just an easier aesthetic appeal. The app functions well allowing you to do almost everything without ever going to the website. With this app it becomes easy to find things rather than spending hours figuring out where certain files are located or how to submit things. I would advise all college students to get Blackboard the app especially if they are new to using it. With the app, using this software for grading etc. can be a smoother transition from the software you’re used to.

Extremely helpful and efficient. This app has been very helpful in the way that it makes it extremely easy to check nearly every aspect of your schooling! While it is nice to be able to quickly check your grades as you progress, being notified when your professors upload new assignments and announcements might be my favorite feature. It has kept me updated and on top of things, keeping me proactive about my work. Being able to check due dates and quickly respond to/create threads in discussions is a huge plus as well. Super grateful for this app as it has made my schooling experience significantly more organized and less stressful!

So many bugs, crashes, refreshing problems. I normally don’t leave reviews on apps and my review won’t matter anyways, but i just want to say the amount of bugs and issues this app has is very frustrating, and to think this is an app used widely by most educational institutions. Even on the latest update, the app will still crash when attempting to open, some tabs don’t even open, the loading times are extremely slow, app crashes when trying to access documents or grades, and the infamous logging out of account every time you close out the app is still in effect. So many bugs and crashes it’s pathetic and highly disappointing. The blackboard app has so much potential and is very useful, that is whenever it does function properly. As of now, it has too many unfixed bugs that developers don’t seem to care to work on.

Does not work.. I have had the app for a long time now, I used to use it all of the time and found it very helpful. Within the past month it does not appear the same as what is displayed here on the store. There are no longer app functions. After logging in the app brings me to a broken version of the website. Maybe because “web login” is required when I open the app? Although in the past that’s how I had to log in to the app and there were no such problems. I contacted support and they said they would get on it and report the issue. Still no one has gotten back to me over email (like they said they would) to even acknowledge that I called about the issue. Using the website on my phone does not work properly anymore in safari and other browsers I have downloaded. So I can only access blackboard through a computer. Curious as to what has caused the website to get worse.

Great app. App is finally working perfectly again, I’m glad the program could be easily resolved within a few days. This app was working perfectly fine when I first downloaded it however a week or so later I went to open the app and I was no longer logged in. After multiple attempts to log back in and deleting & downloading again the app still doesn't allow me me to log in. The same message pops up after a minute and a half saying there's a problem our side so I should try again later. This experience is rather disappointing because I was beginning to really enjoy the app and the easy accessibility.

Only good for notifications from professors. I am having difficult with this app through iPhone. 1. Notifications from the Blackboad app - i regularly get notifications from the app, but when i try to open the app through the notification, it will not load. So, i am forced to close out from the app, go back to Blackboard by clicking the app icon. 2. Discussion boards viewed from the Blackboard app - It’s a hit or miss with viewing my peers’ discussion posts (mostly misses). When i try to open their direct posts on the discussion board, i am unable to see it. It will only let me reply to their post even though i have not yet read it or it will let me view my other peers’ reply to that direct post 3. Autocorrect words - not a feature on this app.

Update doesn’t always mean more helpful. While the app was given a more modern look the app has gone even further down the toilet. Accessing grades takes too many steps, login continued to glitch making the user keep entering into their account as appose to staying logged in, there’s a glitch that shows every single course I’ve ever taken under my fall 2022 roster which makes it difficult to navigate and remember which classes I’m currently taking, discussions don’t load, and constant connection issues. The app can be useful to students and educators however everything seems to take longer to do or an extra step (or 10) to do something simple. I’d go as far to say the app before the major update was better despite all of its flaws.

Loops. So, I’m taking two online classes that are obviously blackboard based. Sometimes I’m on the go, and need to either listen to the lecture, or submit an assingment through the app on my ipad. For one of them, the lecture is a live broadcast. For some reason, after the first 5 minutes, it keeps looping and starting over from the point where it stopped, and doesn’t continue. There is also a complication with getting the instructions from the actual post where my professor has the questions needed for the assignment we need to submit. In order to complete the assignment, we need to be able to see the questions, which don’t appear. It only gives you the option to submit it. Other than those two things, it’s been pretty good, so 3 stars.

Horrible UI. I have used Blackboard and Canvas for several years, and blackboard is years behind canvas. There are so many glitches on blackboard. Every time I log onto the app it sends me to the login page, I then swipe up on my ipad and go to the home page. After a few seconds I go back to the app and I am logged in. I have also tried selecting the option to use Face ID, but it never prompts when I try to log in. As a student I turn away from schools that use blackboard. Im unsure why the company has not made any updates to the platform, as it looks very outdated. I try to find good things to say about this app, and it makes me angrier than it should because my focus should be on learning the curriculum and not trying to solve IT issues associated with blackboard. 1/5

Finally it doesn’t log you out every single time!. Downloaded the update and finally doesn’t log me out every single time on the phone app. I know developer kept saying it’s the institutions not them but I highly doubt all the reviews are from the same university or all the universities have exact same IT security requirements. If so many students from different places encounter the same problem it’s the app. Also it doesn’t frequently log out for laptop or desktop, only on phone app it logged out every single time. Anyway I’m glad they finally addressed this and pushed an update that worked after 3 weeks.

Unhappy With Blackboard. The app is okay. They made an attempt to make the animations and transitions candy for the eyes. Most features are there; however, there is one glaring feature missing, the announcements. I’m not sure if this is because I just started using the app and there is nothing in the activity stream, but it seems like a major oversight that students can’t access past announcements. Very odd. My major upset with this app is its very existence. Despite my school paying for old Blackboard Learn app I was forced to purchase the Blackboard Learn app anyways. Now, with iOS 11 dropping support for 32-bit applications, the old Blackboard Learn app that I had to purchase is unusable. Blackboard has indicated that they are now forcing users to use this app, as they have deprecated the old app. I’m upset with Blackboard and this app to say the least. What a waste.

Recently Been Completely Useless. Blackboard for mobile has been fine until recently. I have been completely unable to reach the content of my classes because blackboard goes unresponsive when I tap on anything beyond the class itself. My app is up to date. I’ve tried logging out and back in. I’ve tried deleting the app and redownloading. It’s an issue on both my iPhone and my iPad that began at the same time. I have no issues with the website online. I am really frustrated that I’ve been having to download pages to my computer and email them to myself to access them on my mobile devices and I’ve been unable to complete assignments that I previously could have done from my phone. Their help center did not help. Very inconvenient, very dissatisfied.

Needs work. As a college student who works two jobs and isn’t home much, this app is really helpful, when I’m actually able to log in. For starters, every time you open the app you have to log back in. Even if you were just on the app five minutes ago, accidentally closed it, etc., you’ll still have to log back in. Secondly, half of the time it won’t even let me log in. I haven’t been able to log into the app for a few days now, because every time I try it gives me an error message and says my session expired. Overall, this app is extremely helpful when it actually works. I love being able to access my assignments on the go, especially since I can’t always have my computer with me.

Towson Student Review. This coronavirus stuff has moved all my classes to online on blackboard and I’ve never been more infuriating annoyed by it. Canvas is far more effective, less spotty and faster. AS OF RIGHT NOW...I’m writing this review on the app and there’s a glitch where I can’t even see what the heck I’m typing. Anyways, this app crashes all the time, the mobile version makes me want to cry I can’t stand it, you have you use the online version to view practically everything. I can’t see what I’m typing right now. Online version crashes more often than not. The controls are so bad. The LAYOUT...ok the layout needs SO MUCH WORK. It’s so ugly, i’m not sorry. This app needs to much work. To anyone who works for blackboard, thank you for all your hard work....I get it, IT is not easy and neither is app or software development, but please for the love of god, fix this app.

Good in a pinch. Update: why can’t I click on a link when it’s posted in an announcement? I can’t even select the text cause every time i touch the message it closes the message. Please fix. I normally like to access Blackboard through my laptop or desktop, but when I’m at work I can access blackboard on my iPhone. It’s good for getting updates and announcements. The most frustrating part is logging in. On the iPhone I can’t use my thumb print to login (or saved passwords) and when I try to access certain parts of courses it gives me an error message. Why not just bring me to the login screen so I can login and then return me to the section I was trying to access. I want to be able to access blackboard quickly and find it ridiculous that I need to manually log out and log in to access my courses. Please fix this and make it a five star app.

Buggy uploading files & frustrating to navigate. Blackboard as a whole has always given me issues of some kinda. This semester it has been horribly buggy when trying to upload a file to a drop box. It takes multiple retries and desperately tapping the screen for blackboard for finally decide to load in my file. I think the course messages could use a overhaul as well. It’s not very intuitive to figure who’s going to receive the message. Just today a fellow classmate wound up sending a fairly personal email meant only for our instructor but instead sent it out to everyone. I chalk that up to the convoluted way you have to choose a recipient. Also since I’m griping about the app the dang “create message” button is always hiding from me. I can never find the thing. It blends into the rest of the app. I wish they would make it a more vibrant color. And another thing, within the app I can’t course message 2 of my teachers. I have to sign into a browser to do it. I don’t know why that is but it’s highly annoying now that instructors are all using course messages to communicate.

It’s ok. I really liked the set up of canvas much better, it was way more organized and not overly complicated. I also get logged out every time I leave the app even though I checked the box that says keep me signed in. Every time I log in it asks if I would like to use Face ID, which I always click yes for, and it still never allows me to use it when I go to log in. I also wasn’t able to use the app for the first month of school because it kept saying my log in was incorrect, which I had to contact my school for and they had to reset it and they weren’t even sure why because all of my information was correct.

Functional for the most part- but with a few glaring issues. The app is fine for viewing course content and grades, the primary use for most people. My main issue lies in the fact that I haven't been able to submit assignments through the app for several weeks now. The submission gets caught up, and eventually gives an error message. The first time this happened I didn't see the error, and I received a late penalty. My second issue is a strange one. Three times now in the past few months I have received a course notification, and when I tap on it to see what it says, the app will open an assignment or file from a class that I am not enrolled in, and have never been enrolled in. Its incredibly concerning and should ABSOLUTELY be addressed.

Needs to adapt better to the iPad. I bought the iPad Pro hoping that it would help streamline my studies. Unfortunately, the tool that I need to rely on the most - Blackboard, does not have a good user experience on the iPad. I find myself going back and forth between the app and the desktop version in iPad Safari. Three major issues that I experience are: 1. Discussion forums - makes zero sense that I cannot read the entry that I need to refer to when making a response to that entry. I need to take screenshots and go between screens to do every discussion forum. 2. Folder - my university does this thing where you have to log in again to access video files. However, after logging in (know that there is many videos within the folder) the first video launches immediately, and I have no way of access the other resources. 3. Downloading files - in some folder where an automatic downloads are suppose to happen, it just doesn’t. And worst part is, I can’t even do a manual download. The file is just no accessible to me. These are my general thought. The app is just finicky and I really wish they can patch these in future updates.

It's a disaster & the updates are useless!. Canvas is way better! I used Canvas in Community College and it was so easy to navigate, now I have to use Blackboard in University and it's a complete disaster. First of all the app does not keep you signed in, I have to sign in more than 10 times for the day, which is extremely frustrating. Second, there is not one set template for homework & assignments, therefore professor place them all over. So when you check a course tab for assignments due it'll show that nothing is due for the week. But trust me, don't get too comfortable before checking every other tab on the app, since nothing is in order. I submitted a few late works in the past due to this. Now I have to check with each professor to see what's due seeing that this app can't be trusted.

Poor design. In general Blackboard is good, specially the website which works way better than the mobile app. However it is poorly designed. Every new semester it logs me out and when I try to log in keeps saying my credentials are wrong, even though they’re still the same and I can log in with them on my computer. This has happened to me many times and eventually after deleting the app and installing it again, restarting my phone and a lot of luck, it starts working again. The app doesn’t even have the option to restart my password or look up for my user name, the help panel is not helpful at all. There is no way for me to solve this problem. This is a big issue that also happens to some of my classmates. It would be really nice if you could fix this or at least reach out to me with a solution.

New Update. This app was working relatively fine before this new update. It gave me notifications and it was easy to access school work. But this most recent update has completely changed the app for the worst. Now I have to log in every single time I want to use the app. Plus there’s a large X at the top that if I accidentally click logs me out immediately. I hate having to put in my passwords in public whenever all I’m trying to do is see if I have homework due soon. Another thing is that since it now logs me out every time I’m not using the app, I no longer get notifications. The app is essentially useless as an app now, I might as well just google it. It is a glorified search engine that can only pull up blackboard, but at least with a google tab it doesn’t log me out every time I’m not on it. Please go back to the older iterations of blackboard or fix this massive problem, the app is not convenient anymore.

Several issues with this app need to be corrected. This app works very poorly, as a college student I like to do my discussion boards on my phone but since the blackboard update it no longer works on my phone and I am forced to do it on my laptop which is inconvenient. I dislike how the app forces you to sign in every time without giving you a stay signed in option which it should have. The new update does not work properly I’ve had blackboard for a year now and six months ago I was not having these issues. On the app half the screen is cut off which is a huge issue when I am reading announcements and assignments posted by my professors. The app does not allow me to use external links so I was not even able to see my syllabus on my phone I had to go on my laptop and I’m often on the go so it would be very helpful if these issues were corrected. Very inconvenient.

Most unusable app I have ever owned. Logging in to blackboard is a joke. Every single time I log in via my campus account, it fires back with a stale request error. The only way I’ve gotten it to work is to sign in to my campus’ main page on my phone’s browser, and then try to log in on blackboard. Even then, it only works about 10% of the time. If you leave the blackboard page in the app at any point in time, you have to start from square one and try to log in all over again. The app layout is also atrocious, basically just a poor port of the desktop version. This may just be for my school, but it’s basically unusable. And before the devs respond with the “reinstall” suggestion they send to nearly every negative review, I’ve already done it 3 times to no avail. Just an absolute train wreck of an application.

Fix your app. I can’t believe that it’s 2020 and an app to check your grades still manages to be this dysfunctional. I’m supposed to be logged in. I have the box checked to keep me logged in. Without fail every time I open the app it makes me log in, and then sometimes it won’t even let me log in, stating that there are issues going on “on their end.” Don’t even bother tapping on push notifications because it will open the app and take you to the course that posted the notification, but it won’t actually take you to the posted grade or newly uploaded file, just to the course main page where the app will freeze, forcing you to restart it anyway. It shouldn’t be this hard. Simplify. I have younger siblings in elementary school whose online education apps work flawlessly. I’m in grad school. It doesn’t make sense.

Can't export documents. The app lets you view documents posted by teachers, and can even view them in different formats, but there is no possibility to export them to an app for markup, preventing most users from completing most of their homework. You have to screenshot and oaste them in your markup app. Also, users must MANUALLY log into their institution accounts EVERY time they reopen the app, and the app doesn't offer password-saving. So in the middle of class when you have to download an assignment you have to type fast to make sure you catch up with the teacher. Very inconvenient. Also, any time you open a document, if you attempt to leave the document in any way it FULLY logs you out of the app, requiring users to log in again, and the app does not save any login info. It's just such a tedious app to use and navigate.

YuJa. this is more a different services problem, but it kind of deals with Bb also. In a different class I AM able to access them and watch them from my phone. In another one of my classes I am supposed to watch YuJa videos, and I am not able to access them from my phone. It makes me use the YuJa app, and I cannot get that set up correctly. What I would suggest is that there is a more streamlined way for teachers to upload their YuJa videos so that they can be accessed from the students phone without having to use the YuJa app. It can be done because like I already stated, in one of my other classes I am able to access and watch them right on the Bb app.

Great app, could be greater!. I am so happy to have a mobile app for Blackboard courses. I’m currently pursuing my Masters in Nursing. This is my 3rd degree using the online/hybrid format and Blackboard. The convenience of being able to check my course schedule and grades quickly and on-the-go is great! My only suggestion to improve on the user experience is to make discussion post context collapsible as it is in a web browser. Otherwise, we are scrolling through tons of discussion posts each time we check the discussion. I like to check back for comments/questions on my own postings periodically, and not being able to collapse the discussions makes that aggravating.

ugh. You want this to be as good as they tell you it is, but it simply isn’t. First off, you have to log in every time you open the app. You click on a notification- and it takes you to the log in page, you log in then boom you’re just at the main menu and then you find yourself searching through the app to find out what class that notification came from and your time is waisted. Now, after this update I log in and it takes me to the blackboard website NOT the app. I can see this page when I log on my laptop!!! Nothing special about it anymore. Its an annoying problem that seems impossible to fix because there literally NO TECH SUPPORT!!! Finding help on these issues is impossible as there is no way to reach out to blackboard personally- they just send you to the it desk at your school. So annoying.

Useful Most of the Time. Blackboard app works as intended usually. I’ve found that replying to discussion boards on the app is not possible as each time I attempted to do so this semester it said it was posted but then if I were to login on the desktop website there would be nothing, it never shows up. Minor annoyance is for those establishments using the “Ultra” version. Inside the Courses button lists your classes you’re enrolled in which is great. But why add the images above each course block? Nobody cares about the images, we use the app to be productive and it gets in the way. Being enrolled in any more than 4 courses requires you to scroll down to see more when removing the images above the courses would eliminate the issue entirely. (Basically what the “Original” establishments view looks like).

Course Messages?. I like the app a lot, very convenient, nice design, overall layout good, love to be able to check my course grades quickly. It could just be me not knowing how to do it with the app, but id love to be able to view my course messages instructors send me via blackboard through the app. Some professors link any blackboard messages to the campus email as well so this isnt always an issue, since I have the outlook app to view those, but other professors will sometimes send outlook emails and sometimes send messages exclusively via blackboard, so all in all being able to easily view these via the app would be great!

It’s Okay. The overall app works exactly as you’d expect it to, it’s easy to navigate as well as easy to use. The problem lies in how almost every time you want to use the app it will make you log in from scratch, which completely negates the pros of this app and just makes it feel like a massive inconvenience. Especially since you can easily use the website and it’ll log you in automatically, as long as you don’t clear the accounts linked to the browser. Overall, the app isn’t awful, and can be helpful at times where you don’t have direct access to a computer, however the lengthy login process for the app makes it feel tedious and long, to the point I would rather wait until I can use my computer.

Glitching. Not sure what’s going on. If it was the new update or what but when I go to open the app the screen is just black, most times if crashes at that point. When it does come up it gives the error message that something has went wrong or something then when I go to my assignments none of the new ones are there. I have to login online to see assignments. Thought I’d give y’all a heads up. Other than that it’s a pretty good app, easier to click a few times to see what I need to read than having to login in my web browser.

Very useful app. I use this app on my iPad Pro in my Master of Education program. I like the simplicity of it. I also like being able to check my class’ discussion boards while I am out and about. The app, in my opinion, is a lot nicer than the Blackboard web interface. The only downside with the app is that my professor demands all discussion boards are in APA format. If not, she will mark me down. The app does not allow for me to change from Arial font to Times New Roman. It does not allow for changing titles of books to italics. Again, I prefer the simplicity, but unfortunately I have to use the web interface for this particular course because the app doesn’t allow for font manipulation.

Horrible App and Interface. I’m unable to use less than a third of the website on this app. On the website as well as the app whenever I go to see my “current courses” I’m shown every class I’ve ever taken within my university. It’s extremely difficult to navigate- I can’t check through any of my assignments past the first page on the app, which leaves me unable to check for quizzes/papers that need to be done without a computer on hand. The inability to have things connected goes for the website as well as the app. I can’t check one courses grade via it’s own tab, I have to go through the main page, click on grades, and then view through that interface. It’s ridiculously hard to navigate and use- and it’s even worse on a phone.

This app has been horrible. Needs some major fixes. Look at Canvas. Do what they do. Just be good. For an app that deals with all of my schoolwork, I’ve been more than disappointed. It’s like you have all the pieces to a great app, and you just can’t seem to make it better. After 2 years of using it, it hasn’t changed barely once. Same reoccurring problems, same frustration. Don’t crash every time I click on a notification, actually open the notification, don’t sign me out on my app every time I look away from it for 5 seconds, etc.. I shouldn’t have to hunt for 30 minutes for assignments that could be easily streamlined into the system’s main menu. Not give me a notification when there’s a new assignment for me to click on, then not even take me to the assignment.

ANNOYED. there are many things that create a high annoyance when using this app. and though these occurances are small in magnitude, the fact that they are consistent create the high levels of annoyance i fee for this app. literally …just literally please fix your log in issues. 1) dont just kick out people who never logged out to begin with from the mobile version, and 2) GIVE AN OPTION TO USE THE MOBILE DESIGN THAN THE WEBSITE. WHY IS IT THAT MY SCREEN LOOKS LIKE A MINI LAPTOP WHEN IT SHOULD BE SHOWING IT FOR MOBILE APPLICATIONS. other than that this app is…okay. its not the worst, but definitely could be better.

Staying Logged In. I know that I have to log in through the web-link through my school which is alright. I got used to having to long in every once in while with the app of my phone which again was fine. I recently downloaded Blackboard on my iPad thinking this would be the case, but instead I have to log in every time I close the app. There also isn’t a back button some pages so I am forced to hit the “X” and log in again. This super annoying and frustrating. I don’t understand why it won’t keep logged in, even if its for a short period of time. Also, there are times where things take forever to load or won’t load at all.

Please restore options from last fall!!. This app was amazing when I first started taking classes at the University of the Cumberlands. I could do almost all of my homework and submit it easily from my phone. For some reason, starting this spring I no longer could view assignments. I could only open the Dropbox where they were to be uploaded. Last fall I could open the entire assignment with instructions. Now it’s just a place to upload. That mean is still have to go on an internet browser to find out what to do. As a full time student who also works full time, this makes the app a waste for me! I haven’t used the app much in the past semester because of this. I did like that the communicate section was fixed so I could do webinars on my phone, but it doesn’t work correctly anymore either. Please fix this or if it is on the school’s side have them fix it.

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The application Blackboard Learn was published in the category Education on 16 January 2015, Friday and was developed by Anthology Inc. [Developer ID: 1676499025]. This program file size is 179.31 MB. This app has been rated by 409,440 users and has a rating of 4.6 out of 5. Blackboard Learn - Education app posted on 08 February 2024, Thursday current version is 9.1.2 and works well on iOS 13.0 and higher versions. Google Play ID: com.blackboard.student. Languages supported by the app:

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