"Blackboard features a robust setting for content management and sharing, online assessments, student tracking, assignment and portfolio management, and virtual collaboration."
~ Blackboard.com

Success Stories

UBlearns:

UBlearns is a web server at UB that hosts Blackboard, a comprehensive and flexible e-Learning software platform that delivers a course management system. To use Blackboard on UBlearns, you must be a registered UB student. Blackboard on UBlearns is web-accessible 24 hours per day, seven days a week.

• Supports flexible learning and/or distance learning
• May reduce feelings of isolation for distance learners, part-time students
• Can encourage less confident students
• Encourages independent learning
• Can save the institution time and money
• Usually easy to set-up and administer

Advantages of UBlearns:

• Interaction between instructor and students and student to other students can be enhanced tremendously
• Allows students to learn more at their own pace and schedule. Slower learns will be abel to spend more time learning the material out of class.
• Ease of use
• Common interface for students for all their courses
• Lots of functionality
• Course content distribution
• Group communication & collaboration
• Assessment
• Student management
• Flexible
• Course Material is available24 hours a Day, 7 days a week via the Internet