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 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 five Gradebook Setup Tips from your team in Innovative Learning. “How do I set up Overall Grades?” Tip #1:* Important Use the weighted grading calculation to show students the running total of their overall grade. Assign the weighted percentage values to each gradable item according to the assessment plan or structure of your published course outline. “How do I […]
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 […]
Next storage clean-up date: Wednesday, January 31, 2024. On that date, all Live, DEVU, and MSTR courses from Fall 2022 will be deleted from Humber systems. This includes all Banner- and Destiny 1-generated courses. Please note the future dates for this academic year: May 31, 2024 – All Live, DEVU and MSTR courses from Winter 2023 will be deleted […]
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 […]