Alternatives and competitors
Sites like Blackboard
The 20 closest learning management systems alternatives to Blackboard, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 13 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to Blackboard? The closest matches are D2L, Schoology and Moodle. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.
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01 · Entity
About Blackboard
Blackboard blackboard.com
AI-Powered LMS for Transformational Teaching & Learning | Blackboard
Discover Blackboard's AI-powered LMS designed for higher education, businesses, and government - enabling personalized learning, accessibility, and better outcomes worldwide. Contact us!
Wikidata: business enterprise
Summary by Claude
Blackboard sells a learning management system (Blackboard Learn) with course management, accessibility tools and institutional analytics for running online and blended courses.
- Who it’s for
- Universities, colleges, businesses and government agencies
- Business model
- Software licensing and subscriptions
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Blackboard’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
03 · Nearest neighbours
Alternatives to Blackboard
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Blackboard, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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D2L | Online Learning Platform | Creators of the Brightspace LMS Software
Created by D2L, Brightspace is the best LMS software for online learning and teaching. Discover how our online learning platform for schools and companies can help your organization today.
Very close cos 0.896 - 02
learning management system
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Discover Moodle — the world's most popular LMS
Build an effective, engaging learning ecosystem with Moodle, the most customisable and popular LMS for education, enterprise, and public sector organisations.
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Coursera | Online Courses, Certificates, & Degrees
Learn job-ready skills with online courses, Professional Certificates, Specializations, and degrees from Google, Meta, Anthropic, DeepLearning.AI, Stanford, and more. Start learning today.
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Instructure: Leading EdTech for K–12, Higher Ed & Business
Empower learning with Instructure’s LMS and edtech solutions for K–12, higher education, and businesses. Discover Canvas, Impact, and Mastery to drive success.
Close cos 0.885 - 06
Black November Alura: matricule-se com até 50% de desconto!
A Black November da Alura chegou! Aproveite o maior desconto do ano para se matricular e avançar na sua carreira tech!
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edX | Online Courses, Certificates & Degrees from Leading Institutions
Find the online learning path for you, delivered by world-class institutions like Harvard, Google, Amazon, and more.
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ManageEngine: ITOps, cybersecurity & service management software
ManageEngine powers businesses like yours to take control of your IT with enterprise-grade solutions built from the ground up.
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Brilliant | Your Personal Tutor for Math and Coding
Visual, interactive tutoring in math and coding, from 5th grade through college. Master concepts in algebra, calculus, Python, computer science, and more.
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Illuminate Education - Addressing the Whole Child
Let’s transform education together. Get answers to your questions to increase student and educator success.
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Captcha Challenge…
online studying platform
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GoGuardian | Engaging Digital Learning for Schools
GoGuardian empowers K-12 leaders with effective tools to create safe and engaging learning for every student.
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Learn to Code - for Free | Codecademy
Learn the technical skills to get the job you want. Join over 50 million people choosing Codecademy to start a new career (or advance in their current one).
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ClassLink | Identity & Access Management for Education
ClassLink is a provider of identity and access management products offering instant access to apps and files with SSO, class rostering, account provisioning, and analytics.
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O'Reilly Media - Technology and Business Training
Build the skills your teams need. Give them the O'Reilly learning platform and equip them with the resources that drive business outcomes.
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Tech & IT Learning Platform for Teams | Pluralsight
Trusted by 23,000+ organizations, Pluralsight is the online tech learning platform for building AI, cloud, data, and security skills with courses and labs.
Close cos 0.870 - 17
Arduino: Open-Source Boards, Software and Kits for Makers
Arduino is the open-source electronics platform with boards like UNO and Nano, the Arduino IDE, Cloud and kits to build projects, from beginner to pro.
Close cos 0.868 - 18
Hotmart — Learn what you want, teach what you know
Learn more about Hotmart, the leading platform for selling and distributing digital products.
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Client Challenge
non-profit educational organization
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online education platform
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Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to blackboard.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Blackboard uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What Blackboard is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- JavaScript frameworks
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/ns.html?id=GTM-
- Marketing automation
- HubSpot page source: js.hs-scripts.com
- Cookie consent
- OneTrust page source: cdn.cookielaw.org
- A/B testing
- VWO page source: dev.visualwebsiteoptimizer.com
- Security
- Sucuri header x-sucuri-id: 15037
- Email hosting
- Microsoft 365 MX blackboard-com.mail.protection.outlook.com
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-337.awsdns-42.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=sL0SeJrvzBUml3o/s27o80sReunbCTKElGcidHp…
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=h4SDO4a-PJNaavz2JFzCHiOqtvcVJG-r2SSOSwVnZcw
- Salesforce TXT v=spf1 include:_netblocks.blackboard.com include:mh.blackboard.com in…
- Slack TXT slack-domain-verification=sLH7O6zyRtYfRHsoN0px0eCS2i6cde4iq2oEhHKC
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Blackboard adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 20/20
- Microsoft 365 17/20
- Google Workspace · not on blackboard.com 14/20
- Apple Business · not on blackboard.com 14/20
- Cloudflare · not on blackboard.com 12/20
- OpenAI · not on blackboard.com 12/20
- Atlassian 12/20
- OneTrust 11/20
- Google Tag Manager 10/20
- Amazon Route 53 10/20
- DocuSign · not on blackboard.com 10/20
- Salesforce 9/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on blackboard.com 8/20
- Stripe · not on blackboard.com 8/20
- React 7/20
- SendGrid · not on blackboard.com 7/20