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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 […]

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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 […]

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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: 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 […]

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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, […]

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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: SafeAssign Direct Submit The SafeAssign Direct Submit tool allows instructors to check for plagiarism using the SafeAssign tool in the Books & Tools section. Simply Upload or Copy/Paste the document through the SafeAssign […]

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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: Auto-captioning for video and audio feedback The following feature has been added to improve accessibility and promote inclusivity. It also supports diverse language preferences, aligning with the user’s chosen language. Automatic captioning is […]

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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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Using the Grading Attempt Selector to Grade Multiple Submissions An attempt selector on the grading page has been added to help manage, evaluate, and grade multiple student submissions. The selector can be found on the top left corner of the submissions grading page. Reusing Questions Between Question Banks Instructors can now copy questions between question […]

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