How To Use The Bb Mobile App

Welcome to Blackboard's mobile solution that helps students stay informed, up-to-date and connected.

With the Blackboard app, you can:
• Quickly view updates to your courses and content
• Take assignments and tests
• View grades for courses, assignments and tests

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.

What's New

In this release we've made small improvements to Progress Tracking.
We've also resolved bugs displaying incorrect rubric criteria.

Ratings and Reviews

4.6 out of 5

359.5K Ratings

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.

Could be good, Will not stay logged in

As a college student, I have been using Blackboard for 3 years now. I could overlook all of the other little inconsequential things that bug me about this app and give it 4 or 5 stars, but there are two major issues. #1: Every time you click on the app, you have to log in. It doesn't matter if you just logged in five minutes ago, you have to log in again. It's ridiculously annoying and frustrating, and sometimes not being logged in means you miss notifications. I mean, I didn't always have this issue. It's like the issue was fixed and then it started again.

#2: Clicking on notifications doesn't lead you to the notification source. For example, if I get a grade notification, it won't lead me to the assignment. Sometimes it'll just open the app and then freeze my phone. Other times, it'll take me to a random page in the app. But, as I said before, lately I haven't been getting notifications because of the whole "log in every two seconds Or Else" issue. I can deal with other little issues, but missing notifications from my professors and assignment reminders? That's not okay. I shouldn't have to rely on my email to do what your app is supposed to.

TL;DR: I'd just really like to be able to log in and stay logged in please.

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.

App Privacy

The developer, Blackboard Inc., indicated that the app's privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer's privacy policy.

Data Not Linked to You

The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:

User Content
Identifiers
Usage Data
Sensitive Info
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Information

Seller

Blackboard Inc.

Size

149.6 MB

Category

Education

Compatibility

iPhone: Requires iOS 12.0 or later.

iPad: Requires iPadOS 12.0 or later.

iPod touch: Requires iOS 12.0 or later.

Languages

English, Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Hebrew, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Maori, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Vietnamese, Welsh

Age Rating

Copyright

Price

Free

App Support
Privacy Policy

Supports

Family Sharing

With Family Sharing set up, up to six family members can use this app.

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