Students eagerly spend hours on Facebook, where they socialize and communicate with friends. But they’re often far less excited about logging into Blackboard, the course-management system used at ...

Blackboard Inc. today announced Blackboard Sync, an application that allows students to receive course updates and communicate with classmates while logged on to Facebook. The new application is free ...

Stay actively involved in your Blackboard course while you are away from the computer. Download the Blackboard Mobile Learn app and view your CLU Blackboard course on your iPad, iPhone, or Android ...

Blackboard has a released a free mobile app, Job Genie, designed to help students explore career paths and college options. "The app is a result of qualitative research with students that indicated a ...

Blackboard unveiled a free application for the iPhone today to let students check their grades and get updates about their courses at colleges that use the company’s course-management software. The ...

The new app allows community members to subscribe to Blackboard MyConnect groups, which are topic-based subscription lists provided by their institutions. Community members can also identify message ...

Blackboard announced that the Blackboard Mobile Central application is now available for Android-based smart phones, and that its debut will take place at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois ...

In a recently announced move, Virginia Tech's Blackboard posted on its Web site that they would not allow the Facebook application CourseFeed to access its servers. CourseFeed, a Facebook application ...

Blackboard has updated its online collaboration and Web conferencing system, Blackboard Collaborate, and launched a version for Android. Blackboard Collaborate is an online platform designed ...

Blackboard today unveiled Blackboard Instructor, a mobile app designed to help faculty manage their courses, engage students and complete course-related activities inside and outside the classroom.

These may be some of the best apps for college students to take notes, manage time and conduct research efficiently.