Abstract:

This study aimed to identify the student's use of the learning management system "Blackboard" in Human studies e-courses at Olysha campus /the University of King Saud. The study follow a descriptive approach based on content analysis, where the descriptive methodology based on questionnaire was used as a tool of study, and the study sample has been chosen on randomly. The following are the most important results:

- With regard to the ratio of the sample treated with a learning management system tools, Blackboard was as follows:
72.6% of respondents have dealt with the tool download lectures " content materials", 66.7% tool download duties or otherwise, 74.1% preformed tests, 52.1% for the bulletin board, 44.4% for the panel discussion "forums", 32.5% tool tasks, 35.9% of messages, 31.6% Center estimates, 13.7% Blogs, 11.1%, Virtual Classroom, 6% Glossary, 0.9% swap files.

- The highest percentage of the number of decisions that have been studied through the system's decisions were by 23.1%, and 96.6% of respondents did not receive training sessions on the system, 59.8% of respondents with desire to study the decisions of the other through the system.

- Response of the sample on the extent of use of learning management system "Blackboard" in the entry of the active electronic courses was medium ranged between (3.79 - 2.03 out of 5) compared with the arithmetic average of the year (2.66).

- The study's result's highlighted the difficulties faced by students when using the learning management system "Blackboard.

Keywords:

Learning management system, e-learning, Blackboard.