Course Layout & Navigation

Original to Ultra Transition:

• Restricting Original Course View Copy workflow

General Layout & Navigation:

• Individual date adjustments from Batch Edit 

• Persistent navigation for Learning Modules

• Reply all in messages

• Course content page enhancements

• Calendar event management

Mobile Improvements:

• Landing page enhancements for Blackboard Learn Mobile app 

• Long names visible and sorting controls for the Student Activity report for assessments on small devices and mobile app 

Communication

• Send a copy to email when scheduling announcements

• Send a message to a group from Group Spaces

Content Design

• Content Designer: Enhanced Documents 

• Convert Content Areas to Learning Modules -

  • Note: this has been enabled at Fairfield University

• Math formula enhancement

• Content Designer: Knowledge Check in enhanced Documents 

AI Tools:

• Image Generation Improvements

Assessments & Grading

AI Tools:

• AI Design Assistant – Context picker for Learning Modules, Assignments, Discussions, and Journals 

• AI Conversation 

Assessment Settings:

• Supporting multiple performance criteria in release conditions

• Multiple rules for release conditions

• Default question points value changed from 10 to 1 

• Supporting multiple performance criteria in release conditions

• Duplicate questions in Assessments, Forms, and Question Banks 

• Reuse questions in Forms

• Likert answer options expanded to include 4 and 6 Anonymous student responses for Forms

• Multiple attempts for Forms assigned to groupsAnonymous posts for Discussions 

• Improvements to the Group Submissions page

Printing Assessments:

• Print answer key for assessments

• Improvements to prevent printing a question across pages

Gradebook Improvements:

• Improved Gradebook navigation

• Weighted Calculation Improvements

• Add question feedback when grading a test by question

• Auto-submitted indicator in attempt logs Overall grade information added to gradebook download 

• Edit gradebook category for Partner Cloud content 

• Student feedback remains visible to students regardless of release condition settings

• Usability improvements for flexible grading 

• Add question feedback when grading by student in Flexible Grading 

• Calculations changed from using BigDecimal to BigFraction

• Needs Grading improvements for assessments allowing multiple attempts

• Needs Grading improvements for Students and Questions tabs

• Recording audio and video when adding per question feedback

• Improved navigation between students in Flexible Grading

• Hide unenrolled students from the gradebook 

• Status information removed from the gradebook download file

• Student Activity Log

• View items that need grading and posting in the new Overview tab   

• View late submissions that need grading 

• Exclude attempt when grading 

• Students can review instructor feedback on the student submission review page 

• Students can access assignment feedback hidden by release conditions 

Groups:

• Self-enrollment group improvements

Discussions

• Anonymous posts for Discussions 

• Ability to ‘Follow’ Discussions for Enhanced Engagement Assessment

Assessment Type - AI Conversations

• AI Conversation 

AI Tools

UnSplash uses your content to generate search terms for royalty-free images to embed in your course. It can also be used to Generate AI images.

Design Assistant generates course structure, test questions, authentic assessment, discussion, and journal prompts, and rubric suggestions based on existing content or key words entered into the tool. These suggestions are aligned with Bloom’s Taxonomy.

• AI Design Assistant – Context picker for Learning Modules, Assignments, Discussions, and Journals 

• Image Generation Improvements

Course Layout & NavigationBase Navigation

• Improved filtering and term selection

Announcements

Communication

• Improvements to self-enroll groups

• Reply to Messages from Email if Allow Replies is checked

Content Design

Assessments & Grading

All Assessments/Content

Tests:

• Ability for students to de-select answers on True/False questions

  Print blank tests for paper-based administration. Option to print as a PDF which can be later be converted to Word Doc for editing.

  Scheduled release will exclude question pools when printing.

• Item Statistics (including average and standard deviation)Provide audio/video feedback on individual questions when grading

Forms

• Anonymous Forms

Discussions:

• Improved notifications

Gradebook

AI Tools