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Here are the highlights of this month’s new and improved features in Blackboard Ultra. For more details, please follow the links below: Flexible grading Now with added grading capabilities, instructors have more options for grading assessments: Grade by question or student, and filter by grading status Navigate between students and multiple submission attempts View both […]

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Here are this month’s new and improved features in Blackboard Ultra. For more details, please follow the links below:  Formative label and Gradebook filter  When creating an assessment, instructors may indicate to students if it is formative by going into the Assessment settings panel in the Formative Tools section. This will display in these areas:  […]

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Here are this month’s new and improved features in Blackboard Ultra. For more details, please follow the links below: Set exemptions for anonymous grading To improve the ability to manage student exemptions, instructors are now able to set exemptions for anonymously graded assessments from the Student Overview page by clicking on ‘add or edit exemptions’ […]

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Recently, there were a few reports where SafeAssign and Inline grading wouldn’t work. After doing some investigation, I’ve figured out the root cause of this. Both SafeAssign and Inline Grading tools do NOT “yet” support Essay type questions. If an assignment consists of an essay-type question where students attach their work then SafeAssign and Inline […]

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Steps for Accessing and Printing Tests from ULTRA courses  Fill out a form to request access to download a free version of Respondus Instructions for Downloading and Installing Respondus (PC supported ONLY) Retrieving Tests from ULTRA Using Respondus Book Assistance if required

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