--- title: "Blackboard Reviews, Pros and Cons - 2026 Software Advice" description: "Reviews of Blackboard. Learn how real users rate this software's ease-of-use, functionality, overall quality and customer support. Talk to our advisors to see if Blackboard is a good fit for you!" source_url: "https://www.softwareadvice.com/lms/blackboard-learn-profile/reviews/" page_type: "reviews" language: "en" --- 1 million+ businesses helped. Get advice Get Free Advice [Home](https://www.softwareadvice.com/) / [Assessment Software](https://www.softwareadvice.com/hr/assessment-comparison/) / [Blackboard](https://www.softwareadvice.com/lms/blackboard-learn-profile/) / Blackboard Reviews Software Advice offers objective insights based on verified user reviews and independent product and market research. When our advisors match you to a software provider, we may earn a referral fee. [Overview](https://www.softwareadvice.com/lms/blackboard-learn-profile/) Reviews [Alternatives](https://www.softwareadvice.com/lms/blackboard-learn-profile/alternatives/) # Blackboard User Reviews ## Reviews summary - Overall rating: 4.1/5 - Total reviews: 537 ### Secondary ratings - Ease of use: 3.9/5 - Customer support: 4.0/5 - Value for money: 4.1/5 - Functionality: 4.1/5 ### Rating distribution - 5 stars: 225 reviews (42%) - 4 stars: 207 reviews (39%) - 3 stars: 76 reviews (14%) - 2 stars: 21 reviews (4%) - 1 star: 8 reviews (1%) ### Most mentioned pros - It supports accessibility for all users on different types of devices and browsers. - Also, it was easy to upload files and share the links or links to files and overall, it was just a platform that allowed you to put items there for your users. - What I liked most about blackboard was that it has a clean interface and holding an E dialog between groups of people was very easy to do. ### Most mentioned cons - However, from the back end as an instructor trying to create whole courses, it became difficult to put any sort of custom design into the pages or templates. - I have few words on what is missing in Blackboard Learn particularly system requirements: I often experience system crashes and lagging with Blackboard Learn platform. - Some training videos were difficult to understand due to the narrators having heavy accents. ## Blackboard customer reviews Showing reviews 1-25 of 537 (page 1). ### Canvas is Still Better - Overall rating: 2/5 - Reviewer: Essence W. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: E-Learning - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: March 2026 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros I like the course arrangement and all the ediitng potential to tailor the classroom to our unique student needed #### Cons Im sorry its just not the prettiest. The whole platform still needs a style update and its difficult to use --- ### Blackboard keeps my science courses organized and easy to navigate. - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Kimberly B. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Education Management - Company size: 1001-5000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: September 2025 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Blackboard helps me organize my classes in a Week by Week format, while also keeping within the structure of other classes at the same school. This allows easy navigation of the Blackboard page, saving students time and frustration. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros It allows me to organize my course in a way that students can easily navigate through it. The page layout and design are much like competing products, so it is familiar to new users. It is easy to setup, as well. #### Cons Sometimes it has quirks, especially with the gradebook. It is also constantly changing, but that's also a pro at times. #### Reasons for switching to Blackboard I used VersaLMS at another company before I had my current job. Blackboard works so much more smoothly! We used Zoom 5 years ago. Blackboard is preferred. --- ### Blackboard - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Evelyn W. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Medical Practice - Company size: 10000+ employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: October 2019 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Awesome technology for keeping up with school #### Cons Occasional glitches in system. But much else --- ### Blackboard Review - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Chelsea B. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Higher Education - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: March 2025 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I enjoyed using Blackboard. It was my favorite educational program to use as far as navigation and keeping up with courses. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Blackboard is very easy to navigate and use as a student. #### Cons Communication is not as efficient as other programs. #### Reasons for switching to Blackboard Begun college courses, which required use of Blackboard over google classroom. --- ### Blackboard is the king of Learning Management - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Jean-Pierre N. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Higher Education - Company size: 501-1000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: December 2025 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered I have used several Learning Manageement System in an academic environment, but Blackboard is the king of Learning Management. It is a powerful LMS for designing learning tools. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I found Blackboard a very robust Learning Management System. It has strong features, including grading learners' assignments, communication, the management of assignments, and providing activity feedback. It supports accessibility for all users on different types of devices and browsers. #### Cons The Blackboard interface can be intimidating for new users. Many of our users indicated that it is difficult to navigate it. --- ### Training and Diversity Do Not Mix - Overall rating: 2/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Construction - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used weekly for free trial - Reviewed: December 2025 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered I will be using Blackboard for some upcoming college courses. I watched a number of their training videos. They were professionally done and the app appears fairly easy to use. Many/most of the vides were narrated by people whose first language was obviously English and easy to understand. However, some of the videos were narrated by individuals with heavy foreign accents. English was obviously not their first language. So unfortunately, I had difficulty understanding these individuals; and this adversely affected my ability to learn how to use this product. The prime objective of any instructional videos should be to convey information clearly and concisely; it should not entail political correctness or a diversity agenda especially when it comes to running a business. What's in the best interest of the customer should be any company's focus. Remember what happened to Bud Light? #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros The app appears to be easy to use. The training videos were well done (but with some exceptions noted below) #### Cons Some training videos were difficult to understand due to the narrators having heavy accents. English was obviously not their first language. Probably an attempt to encourage diversity at the customers expense. --- ### Structured Learning Platform - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Scott S. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Human Resources - Company size: 1001-5000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: March 2026 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered In an education and learning oriented environment, it’s a platform that really allows to centralize courses, documents and exchanges in one same place. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros What I liked is the ability of Blackboard to organise the trainings in a very structured way courses #### Cons To be more comfortable with it, you often need a small adaptation time before being totally at ease. --- ### My Blackboard experience as a learner and an educational technologist. - Overall rating: 3/5 - Reviewer: Jeffrey A. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Education Management - Company size: 1001-5000 employees - Product usage: Used monthly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: September 2025 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I've used it both as a student and an instructor. Blackboard has a rich history of being one of the first online course management systems. My understanding is that they have evolved into another company (Anthology). So this is really about Blackboard the software product. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Blackboard was an early innovator of online teaching and learning. The colleges I attended and worked for embraced the concept of offering course content online. When I was in college I was on a team of ed tech support center workers who was influential in which system to officially adopt for offering online courses. Blackboard was one and WebCT (which Blackboard later aquired). Our college adopted WebCT, but Arizona State University where I earned by BS in Computer Science and M.Ed in Ed Tech was and is a Blackboard Learn campus so I have considerable experience in both environments from many perspectives. #### Cons The company was very monopolistic and sued just about every competing Learning Management System (LMS) vendor for creating online learning environments as they seemed to think that they invented teaching and learning online. --- ### Inclusive Application for Students and Professors - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Maggie S. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Education Management - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: July 2025 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Blackboard organizes classes and other courses for students in an easily accessible way. Class days, virtual classrooms, and online chatrooms for students are all organized in one application. #### Cons Blackboard tends to aggregate some due dates for student assignments but not others. This tends to be an issue for many users. --- ### Does what it's supposed to do - Overall rating: 3/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Education Management - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 12 months - Reviewed: September 2025 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. It is not my favorite learning platform but it does the job in it's basic function and with basic needs. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros I used this a long time ago in my classroom and currently with my daughter's school. I think it is good for security and for elementary school usage. #### Cons I think it could do more to come up with the times and be a bit more user friendly. It is challenging to navigate at times. --- ### Blackboard to a Degree - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Jenna W. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: E-Learning - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: April 2025 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered I used Blackboard all throughout my undergrad experience for daily assignments and assessments. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I loved being able to access all classes in one spot and streamlining my course assignments. #### Cons At times the assignments would fail to load and need to be resubmitted. --- ### Student POV of Blackboard - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Manuel C. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Real Estate - Company size: 2-10 employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: December 2024 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Overall I enjoyed it. It got the job done. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 3/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Overall the platform does what it needs to do. It improved overtime. #### Cons When I first started using it, it didn’t have the best UI. --- ### black board gets the job done - Overall rating: 3/5 - Reviewer: David H. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Education Management - Company size: 501-1000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: October 2024 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros ease of navigation to different department sites #### Cons data storage and collaboration was lacking and hard to navigate --- ### A perfect LMS for remote learning - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Lara Z. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Education Management - Company size: 501-1000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: July 2023 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. We have since moved on to Canvas at my workplace, and I long for the days when all we used was Blackboard. I have had more trouble with Canvas than Blackboard with my distance learners. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Its adaptability and flexibility for the content writer. Information is so easy to add, edit, or remove at a moment's notice, and the changes are reflected immediately. #### Cons There could be more assessment tools added, but the ones already there are more than adequate. #### Reasons for switching to Blackboard Cost --- ### An intuitive software - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Diego Martin R. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: E-Learning - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used weekly for more than 2 years - Reviewed: July 2021 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. The software is amazing. I have not have any problem with it even when I have had difficulties with my internet connection. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Blackboard is one of the most easier and intuitive softwares that I have ever used. I really like it because its videoconferencing platform is really easy to use and has a very powerful tool called "Safe Assign". #### Cons The software could improve its social learning by creating an environment where all the students enrolled in a classroom could post and share any doubts, news, and even discuss about various topics. --- ### Blackboard Learn is an excellent Learning Management System - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Sriram C. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Education Management - Company size: 501-1000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: April 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Blackboard Learn has an easy to use assessment management system that allows faculty to share documents with colleagues and administrators that allow for assessing both online, hybrid, and fully in-person courses for accreditation purposes. #### Cons Blackboard Learn has an easy to use customizable reports that are simple to generate and share with colleagues and administrators. However, I rarely use this feature but it might be good for administrators who assess faculty performance for promotion and tenure evaluations. --- ### Blackboard Learner made mobile learning easier - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Education Management - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: July 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Online teaching and training is much easier while using blackboard leaner #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Blackboard Learner is a valuable platform for training and teaching. The access is easier and it provides a great experience of online learning. #### Cons Very compact and nicely designed system of online learning --- ### How Blackboard Contributed to My College Success - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Steven W. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Medical Devices - Company size: 51-200 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: September 2023 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Blackboard Learn is an invaluable tool for universities across the country. It removes much of the unneeded paperwork via online assignments that automatically grade themselves (which is also wonderful on the student side, receiving immediate feedback). My college experience was improved by having Blackboard in it, as I had been to schools with inferior software that was more frustrating to utilize. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Blackboard is an easy to use learning management system that eases the stress of juggling college courses for the student and professor both. Blackboard is easy to format, and very conducive to discussion between professors and students via the discussion board or the other tools provided. #### Cons When I was a college freshman, it was one of the first years my university used Blackboard. This caused a slight learning curve between the professors as they used the website the first year, which they asked for patience for. This is understandable, however, and in my sophomore-senior year the professors had a firm grasp of the program and it was not an issue. --- ### Simplifies Grades, Course Communications, & Materials Distribution - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Signe J. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Writing and Editing - Company size: Self-Employed - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: August 2021 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. There are a lot of learning management systems out there, and I've used several of them. Blackboard is my favorite. It has excellent capabilities, improves organization, and makes it very easy to communicate with students. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros Blackboard is a great tool for communicating with students, distributing course materials, and recording student grades. The "one-stop shopping" approach makes it easy for professors to stay organized in each class, and it also makes it easy for students to stay organized. When used well, Blackboard allows you to do everything from communicating with students to uploading assignment sheets to sending class announcements. As a writing professor, I especially appreciate the SafeAssign feature that checks student assignments for plagiarism. Once I started requiring my students to use SafeAssign, I found that plagiarism attempts dropped off significantly. (So did attempts to recycle papers from one course to another.) In addition, SafeAssign saves me a lot of leg work when students DO plagiarize -- it flags the suspect text as well as the source, so I don't have to hunt it down myself. #### Cons For me, Blackboard wasn't intuitive to learn. Even after 7 years of using it nearly ever day during the semester, I had some challenges making it do what I wanted it to do. I often spent far more time than I should have trying to customize things for my courses. But, as long as I stuck to the basic features -- which are also the ones I personally found most useful/beneficial -- Blackboard was a great tool for organizing my courses and keeping students on track. --- ### Exceptional Learning Management Systems Provide Integration With Third-Party Applications - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Prateek K. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Information Technology and Services - Company size: 201-500 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: December 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered The platform helps me because I can continue my education from a distance using the various alternatives offered by Blackboard. It is an entire LMS system, incredibly user-friendly, and connects with a variety of audio and video resources. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros I love that everything for all of my classes is accessible on Blackboard Learn in a single area. I have access to all of the resources, tests, and homework that my instructors have uploaded. the platform's user-friendliness. For instance, it can be effectively used by both the instructor and the students. You can see all of your selections on the bar to the left. #### Cons I can't think of anything about Blackboard Learn that I dislike, to be completely honest. It has been an excellent resource for online learning and classes. I may interact with my professor and fellow students, take part in debates, and access and watch my lectures. --- ### Blackboard Learn: The Leading LMS Platform for Higher Education - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Wassim I. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Computer Networking - Company size: 501-1000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: July 2023 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Very great experience. I rely on Blackboard Learn in managing all my online/face-to-face courses. I also rely on it in providing training sessions, tutorials, and office hours. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 4/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 4/5 #### Pros I have been using Blackboard Learn to support my undergraduate and graduate university courses. I mainly use it to flexibly:1. Post course lecture notes and recorded videos.2. Post assignments and manage their submission policies and due dates3. Conduct exams and quizzes4. Post grades to students and link it to Banner to be on the University database system5. Use many tools such as Blackboard Collaborate to conduct video conferencing sessions and office hours with students #### Cons Creating exams and assessments can be streamlined in a better way to create questions of different types more flexibly and rapidly. I recommend having a tool to do MCQ grading (such as Gradescope) integrated in the Blackboard LMS. Moreover, integrating video editing tools into the LMS itself would be a great addition as well. #### Reasons for switching to Blackboard This is the LMS supported at my institution --- ### Virtual classroom - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Verified Reviewer - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Hospital & Health Care - Company size: 10000+ employees - Product usage: Used daily for less than 2 years - Reviewed: March 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 5/5 - Customer support: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros This software is very easy to navigate. It has the dashboard feature which will allow us to check daily assignments easily without going through each course. #### Cons Sometimes it takes time to upload assignments in the blackboard. If you unexpectedly upload a wrong file in the assignment, it doesn’t allow to remove the file, and upload the correct file. --- ### BLACKBOARD LEARN – you don’t know how good something is until it’s gone! - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Lee M. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: E-Learning - Company size: 501-1000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: November 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. Blackboard Learn (BBL) was much better than we knew! You don’t always have control over what tools or LMS you have to use, but if you (or someone else) think that you’d prefer a different LMS - BE CAREFUL what you wish for! I loved the Grade Book’s versatility and ability to easily download it for offline management when needed. Also, when we still had BBL (yes, ‘they’ have switched us to a different LMS) I used it for online classes and as an e-Companion to onsite classes. Loading and transferring content and tests was pretty easy. I MISS BBL! #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros I found that Blackboard Learn is much easier to use than other online platforms used in higher education. Being able to easily add materials and instructional documents to an online course is critical especially when a department adopts a new edition of a textbook. The quiz/test builder within Blackboard Learn is also quite user friendly and being able to export exams from a previous course and import to a future course is a real time saver! #### Cons The discussion board when entering grades can sometimes be a little confusing, trying to determine if the student is replying to a classmate’s post – especially if the student has not included the classmate’s name in their reply, but that’s really more due to a student not following instructions and not the program. --- ### Blackboard - Overall rating: 5/5 - Reviewer: Lap Y. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Education Management - Company size: 11-50 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: March 2022 - Review source details: This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you. I have been using blackboard for over 10 years. First as a student and then as a professor. The institutions that I now work for uses another product which I do not like as much. I am not sure if it is because I got use to Blackboard or the other product is just not as intuitive as Blackboard. #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 3/5 - Customer support: 3/5 - Functionality: 5/5 #### Pros Blackboard is the standard software for most educational programs and most can use it without a big learning curve. #### Cons Can be a bit clunky such as uploading material, but overall nothing really bad about this. --- ### True and Tried (but also Tired) - Overall rating: 4/5 - Reviewer: Cary B. - Verified reviewer: Yes - Industry: Higher Education - Company size: 5001-10000 employees - Product usage: Used daily for more than 2 years - Reviewed: March 2022 - Review source details: This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered Please see above :). I've used BB since I was in college (back in the aughts) and regret that my future students at CSUSB will not have access to it moving forward. Even still, I likely won't miss the gradebook, though Canvas' leaves much to desire as well... #### Ratings breakdown - Ease of use: 5/5 - Value for money: 4/5 - Customer support: 4/5 - Functionality: 3/5 #### Pros I know it extremely well, find it to be easy to operate, think its features are strong and easily accessible, and have had very few incidents with students being totally baffled by it. We switched to Canvas this year, and I rue the day the decision was made. #### Cons The GUI for our version of Blackboard was extremely dated (we did not use Ultra, which frankly seems like a Canvas clone). I would offer the following analogy... Blackboard : Canvas :: PowerPoint : Keynote (... and I'm a PC user). It's boxy, somewhat drab, and looks a bit 'late Geocities // Fark.com'-era. EVEN STILL: I don't mind it - I'd rather have functionality than aesthetics, which is the tradeoff made with Canvas. DEADLY SERIOUS NOTE HERE: The BB Gradebook has always been, continues to be, and seemingly will forever remain an enormous hassle. It is slow, tedious to adjust, difficult to manage, and user unfriendly. ## More reviews [Next reviews](https://www.softwareadvice.com/lms/blackboard-learn-profile/reviews/?page=2) --- Blackboard Reviews, Pros and Cons - 2026 Software Advice