Better Blackboard

Dark mode, themes, course customization, announcements and a grade overview for Blackboard Ultra.

Better Blackboard gives Blackboard Ultra a dark mode, themes and your own style. DARK MODE THAT WORKS EVERYWHERE • Dark pages, search bars, menus, dropdowns and the pages inside your courses • One switch to turn it on or off • A collapsible sidebar for more room THEMES AND COLORS • 16 themes: Dark, Midnight, Black, Mocha, Forest, Plum, Slate, Crimson, Teal, plus gradients like Aurora, Sunset, Ocean, Ember, Nebula, Twilight and Sky • Choose your own link color, sidebar color and page color • 13 font choices • Use your own picture or GIF as the page background • Gradient themes can drift slowly, and a Motion switch turns movement off (it also turns off if your computer is set to reduce motion) MAKE EVERY COURSE YOURS • Click the pencil on a course card to rename it • Give each course its own card color • Upload a picture for the card and move and zoom it to crop it ANNOUNCEMENTS AND GRADES AT A GLANCE • See announcements from all your courses in one panel, with a NEW badge on unread posts • Mark posts as read, filter by course, and open any post in a quick view • The panel refreshes about once a minute while Blackboard is open • See your released grades for every course, color coded, and sort them by due date or score YOUR SETTINGS STAY PUT Everything you choose is saved in your browser and comes back every time you open Blackboard. WORKS ON YOUR SCHOOL Runs automatically on blackboard.com sites. If your school uses its own web address, open the extension and turn it on for that one site. You approve each site yourself. PRIVACY • No account, no ads and no tracking • Your settings, pictures and course changes stay in your browser • The extension only talks to your own Blackboard site to show announcements and grades. If you paste a picture link, the extension downloads that one picture to keep a copy Note: Better Blackboard is made for Blackboard Ultra. It is an independent project and is not made by, or connected to, Blackboard or Anthropic.