{"id":110651,"date":"2022-08-23T08:00:36","date_gmt":"2022-08-23T12:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/?p=110651"},"modified":"2022-08-19T08:14:49","modified_gmt":"2022-08-19T12:14:49","slug":"blackboard-updates-coming-in-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/daily\/blackboard-updates-coming-in-september\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackboard Updates Coming in September"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Each month, Anthology releases feature updates and bug fixes for Blackboard Learn. Here are highlights of what\u2019s coming in September, mostly for Ultra courses:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Copy rubrics between courses.<\/strong> From the Copy Content menu, select the Rubrics folder from the desired course. To copy all rubrics, you may select the checkbox for the Rubrics folder.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sort question banks.<\/strong>\u00a0You can now use sorting controls to easily sort question banks based on the name, number of questions in a bank, or the last edited date.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Discussion replies on the discussion grading page.<\/strong> You now can respond to a student in a discussion while grading their participation.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Non-posted grades included in Grade History.<\/strong>\u00a0Grade History now includes a log of changes to non-posted grades.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Summary list of annotations for inline grading (Original and Ultra Courses).<\/strong>\u00a0When inline grading, now a side panel will summarize all comments in a list. Selecting a comment will navigate you or your student to the location of that comment in the document.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Set points for manually added Gradebook items.<\/strong>\u00a0Now instructors can always edit the maximum points value when using any display type.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Test Timer Notifications<\/strong>\u00a0There are now gentle notifications for timed assessments, instead of an always displayed timer.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Activity Stream navigation improvements.<\/strong>\u00a0To help make it clearer where you will be navigating, there is now an on-hover underline to the course name and the content item name.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more information, see\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/help.blackboard.com\/Learn\/Administrator\/SaaS\/Release_Notes#3900.48.0-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/help.blackboard.com\/Learn\/Administrator\/SaaS\/Release_Notes%233900.48.0-1&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1660997406347000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1UMp0gu7X-03P5ZmB_Lfj9\">https:\/\/help.blackboard.com\/Learn\/Administrator\/SaaS\/Release_Notes#3900.48.0-1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>OWU Sponsoring Organization\/Office: Information Services<br \/>\nContact: David Soliday at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:helpdesk@owu.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">helpdesk@owu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each month, Anthology releases feature updates and bug fixes for Blackboard Learn. Here are highlights of what\u2019s coming in September, mostly for Ultra courses: Copy rubrics between courses. From the Copy Content menu, select the Rubrics folder from the desired course. To copy all rubrics, you may select the checkbox for the Rubrics folder. 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