Blackboard

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Last verified 30 Aug 2026

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Last verified 28 Aug 2026

4.6 441444 ratings · App Store

1. 2/5Annoying notifications. Please make it stop

   At the start of every semester one or more professors decided to post their entire semester all at once. As I’m typing this I’m getting notification after notification on my phone that an assignment due in 2 months has been posted or some other obscure thing. And just when I think the notifications stop another wave rolls through. I would love to see if there’s a way to keep track of how many notifications I’ve received but iPhone maxes out at 99. I’ve been getting notifications for the past hour probably with close to at least 500 notifications. It’s midnight and I would like sleep. I would turn notifications off but I have professors that aren’t mad men and post things when the students will need them so I like to see when the considerate ones post new assignments. Bottom line is for some reason when ever professors post stuff it takes for ever for the items to be uploaded and they all seem to come in at midnight waking me up or keeping me from sleep. This probably isn’t an app issue but rather than the actual site itself and that’s what needs to be fixed here. Or maybe max out notifications at like 10 or something. And then have the notification say “you have 10 or more new things added to blackboard” or something similar to that effect. There are plenty of other issues with the app that I’m sure several people have already complained about but if you care about the well being and sanity of students at university that use this program please stop the notifications.

   Dragon Emperor 00 · 30 Aug 2026

2. 1/5Could be good, Will not stay logged in (Update)

   UPDATE: I’m now in grad school — at a different university — and this is still an issue! Honestly, what? It’s first day of school, and I can’t even get into the app because it keeps having me sign in. Ridiculous. • • • • • • 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.

   dg2017xx · 30 Aug 2026

3. 1/5App is trash

   The UI/UX of this app is abysmal, unpleasant to look at, extremely difficult to navigate. Previous school used Canvas which was amazing compared to BB. Fixing the user interface would be a great start. The courses tab always loads my “current” courses, but it’s actually a list of every course I’ve ever taken. If I accidentally tap on a course that has ended I have to wait forever for the app to tell me it can’t load the course. Menu items are buried in cumbersome sidebar that is easy to miss. Grades and assignments take way too many clicks and are stored in very different locations. Nothing is linked - I should be able to easily navigate to different course components without backing up to the main screen. There is no way to select any preferences, for instance, whenever I open the app I am dropped in the announcements page rather than courses - this should be a choice. The interface is absolutely hideous - it reminds me of a geocities webpage from the 90’s. Finally, many components of the app are cumbersome. It’s very difficult to access pdfs and some portions of the app open an in app browser without the open to open in a local browser. I find it exceedingly frustrating that BB hasn’t made a single attempt to improve this app in many years - hopefully major Universities will start taking their business to better platforms because this app shows a company that has no incentive to improve their product.

   RageJello · 30 Aug 2026

4. 1/5Step it up! Flaky!

   Make a multitasking mode for the iPad! It’s 2020 and this is an app for students. Collaboration ultra worked for ONE DAY! Now in every class the room has suddenly “been deleted” but is still listed and I can access it on the rooms on safari. In my four years of using it I have never been able to click a notification and be taken to what it’s notifying me about. It just freezes or goes to something else. I have to open it manually to see what’s going on. I If I watch a video and swipe down to see my notifications to get a call, the video goes away and plays audio. Then if I refresh it keeps playing the audio and ally’s the video over it I have to fully force quit the app. This app is terrible! I can’t even expand my grades and see comments or what I turned in on this app. I have to use safari. And I don’t get notified when new grades are turned in anymore and only sometimes do I get notifications for assignments that are soon or past due. These were next to the only features that ever worked and not I don’t even have that. Speaking of safari... Sometimes on the web version on safari, the menu goes away so I can’t even click collaborate. I have to go in my History. On the web version, once you get so far down in the text box, the CURSOR DISAPPEARS! And it’s basically useless from that point. Whatever you click... it’s going to click something else. And I use my Apple Pencil so I’m being precise.I hate BLACKBOARD with a passion. And with everyone going online it’s beyond time to STEP. IT. UP.

   FOH757 · 30 Aug 2026

5. 1/5Far inferior to Canvas

   I used congas at my home university and blackboard while recently studying abroad and I was so disappointed to see this app pale in comparison to canvas. Don’t get me wrong canvas isn’t perfect but it’s better than blackboard in every way. Blackboard is far far harder to navigate the courses are much less organized where everything is. The grading section doesn’t provide info on the class average for assignments or the class which is an incredibly useful feature. BB doesn’t support using dual screen on iPads. I could not submit questions to discussion boards via my laptop I had to use my iPad for it, I straight up couldn’t find the button it literally just wasn’t there, very frustrating. The app automatically signs you out like almost every single day which is particularly frustrating to constantly sign in because for some reason the app does not work with Apples password auto fill feature. Canvas also has feature that allows you to put in “what if” grades on assignments to see your hypothetical class percentage which is very useful come finals week, BB lacks this feature as well. Sometimes clicking on and looking at course content wouldn’t open properly and I could only see like the left corner of the material with no way to zoom out or move around. Anytime you leave the app and go to your home screen or whatever and go back into BB the app needs to boot up all over again which is very very annoying if you have bad wifi. This app is all around worse than canvas in every way and cannot recommend it to any college, Professor, student, or teacher.

   A man 247 · 30 Aug 2026

3.3 104131 ratings · Google Play

1. 3/5

   extremely laggy does not open courses specifically on mobile

   Imran Ahmed · 29 Jul 2026

2. 2/5

   Wish it was more user friendly and easier to navigate especially when it's ur first time on the app and ur literally teaching yourself how to navigate the app.

   Dee Dee · 29 Jul 2026

3. 1/5

   It's always broken.

   Jewel Cuerdo · 29 Jul 2026

4. 2/5

   Stopped working properly awhile ago. Courses show, but nothing populates when you click on them. Grades don't populate. Constantly get "something's not right" error. Pretty useless now.

   Lana Rooke · 29 Jul 2026

5. 1/5

   There's always been issues with this app (defaults to showing every class you've ever enrolled in instead of just your current classes with no way to change it, logs you out after a few hours even if you select to stay logged in) but now it won't even load any of my course content. When I click on a course the screen just goes blank.

   Eli Gaylord · 29 Jul 2026

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