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 […]
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 – Authentic Assessment prompt generation AI Design Assistant now includes a new feature that helps instructors create more authentic assignments. When creating a new assignment, instructors will see an ‘auto-generate […]
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 […]