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MS Teams is our video hosting platform for live, online classes in Blackboard Ultra. When sharing your screen in MS Teams, choosing to share a specific application window may affect the behavior of the selected application. If you’re teaching using MS Teams, we suggest sharing your entire screen instead. Remember to close any unnecessary applications […]
Here are the highlights of faculty questions from April. These are not necessarily the most frequently asked questions, but helpful for all faculty members. Question (Linked assignment not visible to students): I have a link to an assignment and made it visible to students, but students can’t see it. Why? Answer: Original assignment you linked […]
Here are the highlights of this month’s new and improved features in Blackboard Ultra. For more details, please follow the links below: Supporting multiple performance criteria in release conditions Release conditions allow instructors to control both who can access content items and when they can do so. This gives instructors the ability to manage content […]
Here are the highlights of this month’s new and improved features in Blackboard Ultra. For more details, please follow the links below: AI Design Assistant – Context picker for Learning Modules, Assignments, Discussions, and Journals Last month, a feature called context picker was released which allows specific course items to be associated with particular tests, […]
Here are the highlights of faculty questions from March. These are not necessarily the most frequently asked questions, but helpful for all faculty members. Question (Group Assignment): I moved a student to a different group, but why do I still see the same grade given to the group where the student used to belong? Answer: […]
Tip: Modify grades within a specific assessment and avoid modifying grades within the Gradebook itself. In the Gradebook, overall grades should be displayed in one of the following colors: green, lime green, yellow, orange, or red. If no grades have been added, nothing will be displayed. Note that if you modify “Overall Grade” directly: the […]
Making updates or corrections to questions while students are active in a test may lead to the corruption of student responses. Please avoid adjusting test content while the test is underway. Corruption is particularly noticeable in tests that include fill-in-the-blank style questions. You may be able to recover lost answers by the following: From the […]
Here are the highlights of this month’s new and improved features in Blackboard Ultra. For more details, please follow the links below: AI Design Assistant – Context picker for test question generation The AI Design Assistant is an AI-based tool which generates various items according to the course content, description, and configuration settings. Instructors can […]
We have become aware of an issue this semester where, on occasion, students who have dropped courses in Banner retain access to Blackboard. When systems function as designed, this is not an issue. We are working with the Banner team to resolve this issue, and will provide an update when available. Meanwhile, please submit a […]
Here are the highlights of this month’s new and improved features in Blackboard Ultra. For more details, please follow the links below: Forms Instructors often find themselves in situations where a survey form is more appropriate than a test when collecting information about students’ preference, interests and opinions. However, in the past, survey forms were […]