Blackboard builds the teaching and learning environment your learners need. AI-powered, deeply accessible, and designed with educators in mind.
Why Blackboard?
Blackboard was founded on one conviction: technology should make teaching and learning better. We’ve built our platform on that principle, and today, we’re embracing another: AI will again improve teaching and learning. We’re not adding features to check boxes. We’re building the environment where exceptional teaching happens and where every learner gets the experience they deserve.
Our Solutions
Different tools. One common purpose: make learning better. Blackboard’s solutions are built to work together — and to work for the people inside them.
Learning Management
An LMS your faculty will love to use.
Have a complete platform for modern teaching and learning, with LMS at the core and AI-powered tools that go beyond course management.
Accessibility
Accessibility tools that make learning experiences for everyone.
Accessible learning isn’t a compliance checkbox. It’s a commitment to open up learning experiences for every student. Deliver on that commitment, at scale.
Institutional Effectiveness
Institutional tools that ensure you’re measuring and hitting goals.
Give your institution the tools to demonstrate mission, drive improvement, and make decisions grounded in evidence.
Awards & Recognition
Best Digital Learning Platform for Higher Education
Learning Management Systems & E-Learning Platforms
Accessibility & Captioning Tools
Best of 2025 — Blackboard LMS
Best of 2025 — Blackboard Ally
Back to School 2025 — Blackboard AI Conversation
American Business Awards — Blackboard Ally
Cloud & SaaS LMS for Higher Education, North America
StarChart™ Teaching & Learning Series — LMS
StarChart™ Teaching & Learning Series — LMS
AI for Teaching & Assessment
The Blackboard Community
One shared conviction: learning technology should serve learning.
“The responsiveness to ideas in the Idea Exchange is an important differentiator for Blackboard. Any company can put something like that together and say they're collecting feedback from customers, but Blackboard can back it up with real numbers and real product releases that reflect the wants and needs of their users.”
Our New Brand
The Evolution of Blackboard
Blackboard has always been about one thing: helping educators do what they do best. Since 1997, that has meant building the infrastructure that makes teaching and learning possible, online and in person, at scale. Today, we are sharing what that evolution looks like next.
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Why This Webinar, Why Now
Protecting Your Institution and Students: Privacy, Security & Compliance in Higher Ed
The landscape has shifted. States are passing AI legislation. Data sovereignty debates are intensifying. Cyber threats to educational institutions are top of mind. Your students, faculty, and community expect their data to be protected no matter what.
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A conversation with Jo Packer, VP of Design
Usability starts with U: How your feedback directly informs Blackboard LMS development
Usability in learning technology is often presented with a wide range of synonymous terms, acronyms, and metrics. With so many different measures and expressions of data, it can be difficult to cut through the noise and identify what really matters for users’ daily learning experience.
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Blackboard is an education technology company. It builds Blackboard LMS and connected products for accessibility (Ally), course evaluation (Evaluate), and institutional effectiveness — the digital environment for transformational teaching and learning.
Blackboard LMS is the core platform, with add-ons including AVA, Video Studio, Adopt, Milestone, and Catalog. This is complemented by Blackboard Ally for accessibility, Blackboard Evaluate for course feedback, Blackboard Illuminate for analytics, and the Institutional Effectiveness suite for accreditation, planning, and program review.
Institutions across higher education, government, workforce and corporate learning, and K-12. Millions of learners of all ages and backgrounds use Blackboard to pursue their learning and career goals, from first-year undergraduates to continuing education, agency training programs, and professional development.
Blackboard LMS is Blackboard’s AI-powered learning management system, rebuilt around the learner rather than the course. Explore what it does differently on the Blackboard LMS page.
