Each month, Blackboard releases feature updates and bug fixes for its flagship service, Learn. Here are highlights of what’s coming September 2nd, for Ultra courses only.
Assignment Attempts Screen Improvements: They’ve widened the screen of the submission area, and added a collapsible and expandable panel where users can navigate through tabs such as rubrics, feedback, and originality report. Independent scroll bars allow you to scroll up and down the submission content without affecting the side tab navigation or the header.
Partial Credit for Fill In the Blank Questions: This improvement will support those instructors who wish to grade student attempts at a more granular level. It will also benefit students based on their associated effort on these complex questions, and provide them with a more accurate representation of their proficiency.
Allow Instructors to Show or Hide the “Additional Content” Section at the End of Assessments: At the end of Ultra Assignments and Tests there is a section where students can add text, images and files to complete their submissions or support their answers. It was always included by default and could confuse students into thinking they needed to complete this extra requirement. In this release, Blackboard has added a toggle to allow instructors to show or hide the section.
Email styling enhancements in new announcements, new messages, assessment overdue soon notices, assessment overdue notices, and daily digest emails.
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Contact: David Soliday at helpdesk@owu.edu