Blackboard Mobile Learn for Android

Blackboard Mobile Learn takes interactive teaching and learning to the mobile device, giving students and teachers instant access to their courses, content and organizations anywhere.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Blackboard
• Mobile
• Mobile Learn
• mobile apps
• Android

[MsTeantean]

read the default android was very limited and cannot watch youtube, view pdf's and who know what else it restricts, recommended froyo - but, guess you need to have some knowledge of how froyo works and which apps will work with it? Maybe give this to familiy and get a small notebook instead - was looking forward to the simplicity of this tablet.

[MsTeantean]

doesnt work with my archos 70 internet tablet - i've downloaded the app, and can log into the initial screen, but when i click on "course documents" tab, it requires an additional log in screen - but blackboard mobile learn does not provide a place to log in, it'll err out and tell me that i do not have proper credentials. using froyo because read android's had problems w/pdf's - which will also need for classwork.

[PigeonTech]

@gbswales My school is subscribed. But on the Kindle Fire, when you plug in the website for Android Marketplace, it hijacks and takes you to Amazon's Android App Store instead, which doesn't have Blackboard. This is the biggest complaint people have with the new Fire. I could root it to get access to Marketplace, but worried I'll brick it or void warranty. I could sideload the BB app, but I can't find a way to get the .apk file, as Marketplace won't let you just download it on your computer.

[gbswales]

@GaeilgeSpraoi that's because Sprint pay the subscription so that sprint enabled universities can use it free of charge - most universities (all outside US sprint network) have to pay a substantial annual subscription for their students to use the "free" app

[gbswales]

@GaeilgeSpraoi if they have subscribed for the iphone app then the android one should work. However you may have access to the old iphone app which has since been retired in favour of this multi platform one. However the subscription comes a a high cost to the institutions depending on size can be about £10,000-£20,000k a year - the app itself is free to students but the service is not!

[gbswales]

@PigeonTech why not just download it from android marketplace - it is free but your institution needs to be subscribed to the service for it to work and this costs them money so not all institutions have it

[PigeonTech]

Since Kindle Fire doesn't allow access to Android Marketplace, and the Blackboard Mobile app isn't on Amazon, is there a way to download the .apk file so it can be sideloaded?

[hamtr3]

This is the most useful piece of academic education I have ever seen. As a recent grad school grad, I saw BB as a baby and a much more graphical version of a personal notebook/calenda

[andjack]

And when do you add an XMPP-server, pref. with S2S turned on, so I can get a notice when someone add or remove something relevant, like a comment or assignment?

[andjack]

It's "Tap" on a touch screen device, not "Click".