Small business=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 13 pointsRank 58 → 48 of 50
Blackboard · 1 category · RankedBlackboard Learn
30Judge labels
0First choices
18Negative labels
13 / 14Models named it
1Category
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.7, every buyer segment counted.
Best standing
0% in Learning management syst for mid-market buyers
Rank 60 of 61 in the mid-market standingcriticized challenger
0 of 14 models made it the first choice on the direct prompt; 50% of its 18 labels there were negative.
What the models named instead of Blackboard Learn →By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
Small business49 of 52
0%3 labels
under the label threshold
Mid-market60 of 61
0%18 labels
criticized challenger
Enterprise71 of 72
0%8 labels
under the label threshold
In learning management syst · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading
Standing by category
Every category where a model named Blackboard Learn for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.
| Category | Function | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels | Quadrant | Since September 2026 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Learning management systems | Learning and development | 0% | 60 of 61 | 50% | 18 | criticized challenger | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. |
Movement
Since September 2026, Blackboard Learn held within the floor in its one category: no change cleared 13 points.
Best category · Learning management syst · by segment
Mid-market=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 13 pointsRank 74 → 55 of 55
Enterprise=heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked.
0%from 0% in September 2026
Inside the floor by 13 pointsRank 57 → 64 of 65
All categories · Mid-market
| Category | September 2026 | Now | Change | Reading | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Learning management syst | 0% | 0% | =heldSince September 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 13-point floor: within noise. Read over the models both editions asked. | Within noise | Rank 74 → 60 of 61 |
Shares here are read over the models both editions asked, so they can differ by a point or two from the standing above, which counts every model in this edition.
The floor is 13 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one is noise, and both are shown. Movement is read over the twelve models both editions asked; GPT-6 Luna, Muse Glimmer 30B joined this edition and are in the standing but not yet in the comparison. How the floor is measured · The editions
By model
How each model treated Blackboard Learn across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.ShowHide
By model
How each model treated Blackboard Learn across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.
ShowHide| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Negative | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Grok 4.1 Fast | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
By framing
Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.
FramingLabels by classFirst choices
Direct0 labelsNone
Paraphrase2 labelsNone
Comparative12 labelsNone
Budget-constrained0 labelsNone
Scale-constrained0 labelsNone
Negative16 labelsNone
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative30 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 0 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.
What the models said for it
Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.
“While it once had a reputation for being clunky, its modern Blackboard Ultra interface has caught up with Canvas.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Learning management syst · comparative prompt · alternative
“A long-established higher-ed option, with institution-focused tools and integrations.” GPT-6 Luna · Learning management syst · comparative prompt · alternative
“Long-standing leader in academia (~18% U.S. higher-ed share)” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Learning management syst · comparative prompt · alternative
“Choose Blackboard for legacy institutional depth.” Muse Glimmer 30B · Learning management syst · comparative prompt · alternative
And against it
Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.
“Long-standing reliability issues... "atrocious" help desk experiences... an "80's platform trying to meet the needs of this century"” Kimi K2 · Learning management syst · negative prompt · hard negative
“Avoid Blackboard Original, Blackbaud LMS, and self-hosted Moodle” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Learning management syst · negative prompt · hard negative
“Platforms with Consistent User & Technical Complaints ### Blackboard Learn” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Learning management syst · negative prompt · hard negative
“Avoid if modern UI/support matters” Grok 4.1 Fast · Learning management syst · negative prompt · hard negative
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Blackboard Learn, over the 30 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Blackboard Learn was named but was not.ShowHide
Named alongside
The products named in the same answers as Blackboard Learn, over the 30 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Blackboard Learn was named but was not.
ShowHideProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.
What carried it into the answer
The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Blackboard Learn. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.
Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 26 of the 30 answers that named Blackboard Learn and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
docebo.com12
d2l.com10
capterra.com9
g2.com9
talentlms.com9
cypherlearning.com8
eleapsoftware.com7
ispring.com7
learnworlds.com7
reddit.com7
Eighty-five of the eighty-five domain citations in answers naming Blackboard Learn came from somebody else's page.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
Search and answers
blackboard.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Blackboard Learn takes 0% of first choices and TalentLMS takes 51%.ShowHide
Search and answers
blackboard.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Blackboard Learn takes 0% of first choices and TalentLMS takes 51%.
ShowHideIn search
Google, US estimatesPosition for “lms for employee training”
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not in the top ten
Position for “learning management systems”
–
not in the top ten
- Searches for its name, Google
- 5,400 a month (“blackboard learn”)
- AI search demand for its name, est.
- 173 a month
- Its company's site
- blackboard.com shared with Blackboard's other products; the figures are the site's
- Organic visits to its site
- about 1,253,959 a month
- Searches its site ranks for
- 9,294 · 3,132 in the top three
- Sites linking to it
- 20,769
- Paid Google search
- No ads found in the estimate; that does not mean it runs none
In answers
This editionShare of first choices
0%
rank 60 of 61 in learning management syst
Segment leader
51%
TalentLMS
- First choices
- 0 across its categories
- Named in
- 30 answers
- Its own site cited
- in 26 of the answers that named it
Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
Names read as Blackboard Learn
What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Blackboard Learn; a claim can dispute any of them.
Blackboard 3Blackboard Learn (by Anthology) 2Blackboard Learn (now Anthology) 1Blackboard Learn (now part of Anthology) 1Blackboard Learn / Anthology 1Blackboard Learn by Anthology 1
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The company
Blackboard is the company behind Blackboard Learn.ShowHide
The company
Blackboard is the company behind Blackboard Learn.
ShowHideIn its own words
Stated by the vendor, not checked- Positioning
- The LMS for easier teaching and better learning; outpacing the market to deliver engaging, insightful, and personalized learning experiences.
- For
- leading institutions
- Certifications
- StateRAMP Moderate authorizationFedRAMP ModerateDISA’s IL4
- Hosting
- AWS GovCloud
- Not stated on the pages read
- Price, starting price, free plan or trial, integrations, customers
What Blackboard Learn's own pages state, read September 28, 2026: blackboard.com/material/blackboard-lms, blackboard.com/material/blackboard-lms-course-catalog, blackboard.com/material/blackboard-learn-for-business-overview, blackboard.com/material/blackboard-learn-stateramp-authorization-guide, blackboard.com/material/blackboard-learn-saas-deployment-on-aws-govcloud. A claimed page can correct any of them.
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- where Blackboard Learn is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
- the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
- its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
- who was chosen in the answers that did not name Blackboard Learn, and every reason the record gives;
- a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
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