We performed a comparison between Blackboard Learning Management and Skype for Business based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about CYPHER LEARNING, Moodle, Google and others in Learning Management Systems (LMS)."The modules and courses are flexible."
"It is scalable."
"It encompasses various components, including course delivery modules, content management, community engagement features, digital classrooms, and mobile integration."
"One of the most important features is the possibility of creating unlimited subdomains."
"Blackboard enables instructors to collectively gather all the grading data into one place. If students upload content or post it to a Google Doc, I can do my grading and calculate the grades. It is an excellent holding place for all of that data"
"The most valuable feature is how useful it has been for virtual meetings during the pandemic."
"The most valuable features are the history tracking which allows us to see who participated and who didn't in the meetings as well as the integration with Outlook."
"File sharing and email invitations for a conference. I can have a meeting with people at the opposite end of the Earth, sharing documentation; it is quite easy."
"The calling features are most valuable, especially now as we are working remotely."
"You can do meetings of up to two hundred people in a single conversation."
"The solution’s video quality is fine."
"A good option for virtual meetings."
"I rate the solution's stability a nine on a scale where one is not stable and ten is very stable...I rate the solution's initial setup a nine on a scale where one is difficult, and ten is easy."
"It would be ideal to create a more responsive or more intuitive template for access from telephones or tablets."
"The solution must provide better integration with third-party software."
"Blackboard has limitations in terms of delivering content and assessing student assignments because it can't handle large file sizes. It's also limited in its ability to track student activity. Instructors can see the student's most recent login, but they can't follow the activity."
"The solution is not flexible."
"The system falls short in terms of managing assessments and exams effectively."
"The initial setup could be simplified."
"This service could be improved by adding some missing features. It lacks integration with Teams, which is a feature I would like to see in the next release."
"I venture to say that 30% of the people using this solution at our company have had issues with stability, due to the volatility and crashes."
"We would like to better customize our instructions within the Outlook plugin/invite, but we are unable to do so."
"I am not familiar with all of the features or whether they can hold conferences because we use Zoom for that. But, in my opinion, if they can do something similar to what Zoom is doing, it will be a complete solution."
"Lacks a zoom-in feature for whoever is presenting."
"I would like to see an updated user interface and layout even though no functionality is missing."
"We have found that there is a lag because it cannot integrate with the internal landline."
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Blackboard Learning Management is ranked 8th in Learning Management Systems (LMS) with 6 reviews while Skype for Business is ranked 4th in Virtual Meetings with 59 reviews. Blackboard Learning Management is rated 7.8, while Skype for Business is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of Blackboard Learning Management writes "Expandable with good real-time live interactions but is very expensive". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Skype for Business writes "Reliable, useful for remote work, and great but isn't as robust as Microsoft Teams". Blackboard Learning Management is most compared with Google Classroom, CYPHER Learning and ELITE LMS, whereas Skype for Business is most compared with Webex, Zoom, TeamViewer, GoToMeeting and Cisco Meeting Server.
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