BLACKBOARD 

  

Blackboard is a tool that allows to distance learning. It is a learning management system (LMS). Blackboard provides instructors and students with access to teaching and learning resources such as text, images, sound, audio, animations, graphs, etc. These allow students to find material based on their preferred learning styles. Blackboard is used in 82% of the top 200 educational institutions worldwide.

 * Blackboard provides an area to place information about the course, assignments, and exams in multiple locations. 

 * It has similar sides to Moodle but it is not free.

 * Via Blackboard you can access PowerPoint presentations, old exam questions, homework answers, etc., That way you can provide students with study tools that will improve their grades.

* It creates a collaborative environment with creating working groups among the students. That way students can learn from each other, they can discuss what they know.

* Students and instructors can communicate on a topic in the synchronous chat room within Blackboard. Also, real-time communication with Whiteboard tools can be used for collaboration and off-site office hours.

* By simulating real-life problems students are able to repeat steps without extra expense to others.

* Instructors manage course grades online and download them for use with other applications.

* Instructors can create practice tests and gather student feedback online.

    In brief, as a teacher, we can develop our teaching ways with Blackboard. Because when we adapt to LMS tools, our students’ creativity develops because our lessons become much more beneficial and catchy.