Blackboard is a course management tool. By providing password protected areas for course materials, such as audio files, word documents, photographic reference, quizzes, grades, email list, etc., it extends the classroom.

Gradebook features

Weight grades, give students access to immediate feedback. Improved feature gives you your choice for grading - raw scores, percentages, letter grades.

Exchange files

Continue to use the digital dropbox to exchange files between student and instructor, or explore the new assignment feature which directly links to the gradebook and allows for batch downloading.

Send email to class

Automatically creates class mailing list.

Extends classroom for students

From the students' perspective Blackboard gives them a centralized area for organizing their work, which can be reached from anywhere that has an internet connection. They can move there work back and forth between different computers - from the library to their room to the classroom.