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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: Authentic Discussion and Journal prompts The new AI feature can assist in generating a topic and description for discussion and journal if the instructor chooses to do so. Click ‘auto-generate discussion’ when starting […]
The AI Design Assistant tool is now available to instructors as an optional tool within Blackboard Ultra. We prepared our online resource at Blackboard Help Page. It includes external links related to Anthology’s approach to AI, and how to use the AI Design Assistant. We also included screenshots of walkthrough for the features, and the […]
Here are the highlights of this month’s new and improved features in Blackboard Ultra. For more details, please follow the links below: Matching question updates: partial credit auto-distribution and other updates In the past, instructors were limited to selecting only one of four mutually exclusive scoring options for matching questions. This limitation led to inflexibility […]
The IL Support Centre has recently received a few tickets over the last two days reporting an issue in the feedback editor of the assignment within Blackboard. (Bb Annotate is the inline grading tool within Blackboard.) The issue experienced by some faculty has been described in the following steps: After editing feedback for an assignment, […]
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 […]