The Blackboard Learn app is designed for instructors and students to connect with course content and interact on the go.
Table of Contents
- Download
- Features
- Courses
- Assessments
- More
Additional Resources
Download to your Apple® device
Download to your Androidâ„¢ device
- Participate in courses from your mobile device
- Stay on top of assignments with notifications
- Engage with assessments any time, any place
Download
- Download the app to your mobile device.
- If necessary, search for Blackboard.
- Install the Blackboard Learn app.
- Open the Blackboard Learn app and search for Virginia Wesleyan University.
- Log in with the same username and password you use to access Blackboard courses on your computer.
Features
The Blackboard Learn app puts courses at your fingertips.
Instructors
- Create and upload course content
- Preview course items, assignments, and tests
- Change settings for assessments and content
- Participate in and edit discussions
- Send announcements
- Grade assessments
Students
- View course content
- Take assignments and tests
- Edit your Profile
- Participate in discussions
- Read announcements
- More on grades
View an up-to-the-minute list of important course activity including new content, announcements, and grades. The Activity Stream automatically prioritizes items to help you focus on the tasks you want to take care of immediately.
The following items show in your Activity Stream:
- Course announcements
- Tests and assignments due today or this week
- Instructor changes to due dates
- Calendar events for today and the week
- Instructor changes to events
- Grades posted for tests, assignments
- Item added for course items, assignments, tests
- Missed, overdue, and completed assignments, tests
Courses
Courses will show in the current, completed, or upcoming lists based on the duration or status (open, private, complete). Select the star icon to favorite a course and move it to the top of the list. You can favorite courses in the app or a web browser and they'll display as favorites in both locations.
Your courses may look different than they do in a web browser, but you can easily navigate through your content. Select Courses in the menu to view all of the current and upcoming courses. Tap a course card to see the following items:
- Grades
- Announcements
- Course content
- Discussions
Assessments
Tests and assignments are also available in the Blackboard app and include the following functions:
Instructors
- View and edit assessments
- View associated rubrics and attachments
- Preview the student experience
- Review, provide feedback on submissions
- Post the grades for students to view
Students
- View assessment details
- Complete the attempt
- Submit within the app
- More on tests and assignments
- More on due dates
More
You can edit if you want to receive notifications and customize the type of notifications you receive. Edit Stream, Email, and Push notifications to receive timely reminders on your device for course events.
- Push notification settings
- Help
- Offline content settings
- Feedback
- Touch ID and Face ID setting
- Log out
To access settings, select More from the main menu, then Settings, and scroll down to Notifications.
There’s no need to navigate, just swipe from the notification to start working in the app.
Learn Original
- Course announcements
- Test available
- Test due or past due
- New grades
- New content item
- New course available
Learn Ultra
- Course announcements
- New content
- Discussion posts and replies by your instructor
- Discussion replies in a thread you authored
- New grades and feedback
- Due dates for Tests, Assignments, Discussions
Change the notification display on your device
You can change how your device displays notifications and turn them on or off.
- iOS: Go to Settings. Select Notifications and locate Blackboard in the list of apps
- Android: Go to Settings. Locate Apps, select Blackboard, and tap Notifications