Here are highlights of what’s coming to OWU Blackboard on December 2nd.
Point-based and point range rubrics
Instructors may customize rubrics with different point scales to support various pedagogical approaches and instructional practices. Likewise, faculty may opt to use decimals, organize columns with points or points ranges ascending or descending, and utilize total points that sum up to 99,999.00.
Accommodations: Support more granular control
When adding a time limit accommodation, faculty may specify any percentage of extra time that is needed to honor a time limit accommodation.
Ultra course banner: Image description
added the option for instructors to include an image description when uploading a banner image in the course. We are also providing greater control for instructors to mark images as decorative whenever images are not primary content.
Set visibility for groupsets
A new choice to hide course groups from the students’ view, affords instructors the option to define groups based on students’ performance, interests, adopted knowledge, and other criteria.
Annotations: Save preferences / Settings*
Go through the inline grading process in the course, saving common preferences for Annotation tools, and having the possibility to save custom Stamps to add to future submissions.
*This update is available to both original and ultra courses. The rest of the updates are for ultra courses only.
Additional details, including screenshots, may be found at help.blackboard.com/Learn/Administrator/SaaS/Release_Notes
OWU Sponsoring Organization/Office: Information Services
Contact: David Soliday at helpdesk@owu.edu