Blackboard Learn is a common testing tool used among universities. It has a wide set of features for testing. Blackboard Learn is fully supported and upgraded regularly. New features are rolled out often.

Blackboard Learn is constantly upgraded and hosts a multitude of tools. The Content Editor is quite powerful, as well as the Test Deployment and Design. Blackboard Learn fails to provide an effective display for code or the ability to submit code for grading. It also doesn't have an automatic test generator.

Good Features:

• covers the basics fine
• provides great test deployment and design
• allows password protected tests
• inline assignment grading allows for pinpoint markup
• provides good functionality for viewing of grades, as well as class' performance as a whole
• Content Editor provides great functionality for embedding video, images, and symbolic equations into questions
• overall it's broad and powerful with many specific tools

Bad Features:

• calculated formula gets many answers wrong
• does not allow for deep tweaking of tools, only very limited surface functionality
• Can't select multiple items at once. Must add files one at a time
• base a test (with settings) on a previous one
• very mouse-oriented GUI, doesn't allow for much keyboard input
• simple functions like renaming items or setting properties have been hidden among the more complex functions
• forces user to assign course to each user rather than the ability to select all users for the course

Missing Features

• Does not allow for code to be submitted or graded by an external program
• no ability to select multiple items at once, must repeat process for each item
• no file manager for the desktop application, must use browser to access student uploaded files
• no multilanguage features
• no download of complete course content
• no test generation