Blackboard 2026: Benefits, Features & Pricing

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Overview
Pricing and Plans
Features
User Reviews

Overview

Blackboard

4.1

(535)

Pricing

Starting at $9,500.00 per year

About Blackboard

Help learners, instructors and institutions achieve their goals with Blackboard Learn by Anthology, a market-leading Learning Management System (LMS). Blackboard Learn runs from course development to assessments and integrates with the world’s most holistic EdTech ecosystem. Powered by a community of millions of learners, instructors and administrators across more than 70 countries, Blackboard Learn has been redesigned in collaboration with educators, and is even better than before.

A mobile-first design offers learners the flexibility to access courses on the go - no matter what device they may be using. Thoughtfully designed, Blackboard Learn extends pedagogical freedom with flexible assessment types, personalized feedback for learners, peer assessments, group and individual assignments, discussion boards, messaging and more, all while operating reliably across your current tools and integrations.

With an emphasis on positive student outcomes, the new Blackboard Learn provides actionable data and insights embedded right into student and instructor workflows. This makes it easier to track progress, highlight areas of opportunity, and identify struggling students early on.

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Blackboard Pricing and Plans

Starting price: $9,500.00 per year

Free Trial

Free Version

Basic

$9,500.00

per year

No plan information available

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Blackboard Features

Popular features found in Assessment
Customizable Questions
Live Results Sharing
Reporting/Analytics
Scoring
Skills Assessment
Test/Quiz Creation
More features of Blackboard
Academic/Education
Activity Dashboard
Ad hoc Reporting
Admissions Management
Alerts/Notifications
API
Assessment Management
Asynchronous Learning
Attendance Management
Attendance Tracking
Blended Learning
Built-in Course Authoring
Built-in LMS
Certification & Licensing
Chat/Messaging
Collaboration Tools
Communication Management
Community Management
Compliance Tracking
Content Library
Content Management
Corporate/Business
Course Authoring
Course Management
Course Tracking
Curriculum Management
Customizable Branding
Customizable Reports
Data Import/Export
Document Management
eCommerce Management
eLearning Companies
Faculty/Staff Management
For Higher Education
Gamification
Generative AI
Gradebook
Individualized Assessments
Interactive Learning
K-12
Learner Portal
Learning Management
Learning Paths/Tracks
Mobile Learning
Multi-Language
Multi-User Collaboration
Performance Metrics
Progress Reports
Progress Tracking
Question Library
Registration Management
Reporting & Statistics
SCORM Compliance
Self-paced Learning
Social Learning
Student Information/Records
Student Management
Summary Reports
Surveys & Feedback
Synchronous Learning
Tests/Assessments
Third-Party Integrations
Training Administration
Training Companies
User Management
Video Conferencing
Visual Analytics

Blackboard User Reviews

Overall Rating

4.1

Ratings Breakdown

41%

39%

14%

Secondary Ratings

Ease of Use

3.9

Value for money

4.1

Customer support

4.0

Functionality

4.1

Nhat N.

Verified reviewer

Education Management

1001-5000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed November 2021

Blackboard Learn Review

I had great experience with Blackboard Learn and I will continue to use it in the future. I have not found any other education software out there that can do what Blackboard Learn does.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Functionality

Pros:

It is easy to use and has all of the feature I need like auto grade, the ability to create quiz and text on the fly and allow the student to get involved in the discussion.

Cons:

There is nothing I do not like about the software.

Reasons for choosing Blackboard

I chose Blackboard Learn over these alternative because it is a higher quality product with far better features than any other I have ever seen.

Reasons for switching to Blackboard

Google classroom do not have the ability to auto grade and it does not have the ability to organized things in different pages like Blackboard.

Kimberly B.

Verified reviewer

Education Management

1001-5000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed September 2025

Blackboard keeps my science courses organized and easy to navigate.

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

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

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.

Evelyn W.

Verified reviewer

Medical Practice

10000+ employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed October 2019

Blackboard

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Previously 4

Functionality

Previously 4

Pros:

Awesome technology for keeping up with school

Cons:

Occasional glitches in system. But much else

Verified

Reviewer

Construction

Self-Employed

Used weekly for free trial

Review source

Reviewed December 2025

Training and Diversity Do Not Mix

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

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

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.

Carly G.

Verified reviewer

Education Management

1001-5000 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed November 2025

Simple LMS that does the basic well

Overall, from a user and blackboard made it easy to find documents. 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. It did very well for assignment management too .

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

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. 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. From the user end it was very easy to understand and navigate blackboard and how to get to the materials I needed from my instructor.

Cons:

What I like least about Blackboard was the lack of capability for page and template design. You had to stick to how blackboard set up the pages and customization was just not there. Additionally according to my higher management, the cost of blackboard was slightly higher than other LMS options so upper management decided to switch out blackboard to another LMS.

Chelsea B.

Verified reviewer

Higher Education

51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed March 2025

Blackboard Review

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

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

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.

Chantal G.

Verified reviewer

Higher Education

1001-5000 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed November 2024

Blackboard Learn for Reliable Services.

Blackboard Learn is the profound choice in making all knowledge shared.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

Pros:

Blackboard Learn equips all stakeholders with a reliable information through learning

Cons:

Blackboard Learn is determined and no demerit.

Reasons for switching to Blackboard

Blackboard Learn is remarkable and it offers reliable services.

Madison M.

Verified reviewer

Hospital & Health Care

11-50 employees

Used daily for less than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed May 2025

Blackboard has Potential!

I think Blackboard has good potential but it is intimidating for some students who switch from competitors.

Ratings Breakdown

Ease of use

Functionality

Pros:

Blackboard is a good software for educators and for higher education students, and it has the functions for many different aspects of higher education.

Cons:

Blackboard Learn is difficult to navigate in comparison to its competitors. It is harder to pick up on than other software. Once it is figured out, it is good software but it is more difficult.

Jeffrey A.

Verified reviewer

Education Management

1001-5000 employees

Used monthly for more than 2 years

Review source

Reviewed September 2025

My Blackboard experience as a learner and an educational technologist.

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

Value for money

Customer support

Functionality

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.

Verified

Reviewer

Education Management

51-200 employees

Used daily for less than 12 months

Review source

Reviewed September 2025

Does what it's supposed to do