What’s New

Starting soon: the Student Feedback Questionnaire (SFQ) Season for 14-week courses! Before SFQ’s begin for your course, instructors can add up to three personalized Likert scale questions and three personalized open-ended questions to the SFQ. This is a valuable way to align the SFQ with your specific course content, teaching practices, and initiatives, and it […]

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New incident: Investigating Users trying to access the Blackboard mobile app on Android or iOS devices are experiencing issues logging in. We are investigating the issues and will provide updates as soon as they are available. Thank you for your patience as we investigate this issue.

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The deadline to complete the SFQs is Tuesday, April 15th for a 14-week course!   If you have already enabled the SFQs for your course, then you are all set! If not, there are visual instructions for adding your SFQ into Blackboard here!   Please note: Set 20 minutes of in-class time for students to […]

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Midterm season is around the corner! Here are a few Gradebook Setup Tips from the team in Innovative Learning. “How do I set up the overall grade in my course?” 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 […]

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These are the highlights of this month’s new and improved features in Blackboard Ultra that will be live Thursday, November 7th. The most relevant updates are related to 4 key areas: Instructional Design Tests and Assignments Communication and Collaboration Learner progression and personalized experience Review the full details of this month’s updates here! Instructional Design Improvement […]

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Please share this message widely! All Summer 2023 courses, including DEVU and SBXU courses, will be removed from Humber systems on Friday, October 25th at 4pm. Why are courses being removed? Humber removes courses one year after final grades are submitted or courses are created (for DEVU and SBXU courses). For the current Fall 2024 semester, courses from the Summer 2023 semester will be […]

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These are the highlights of this month’s new and improved features in Blackboard Ultra that will be live Thursday, September 5th. The updates are related to 3 different areas: Instructional Design Flexible grading Learner progression and personalized experience Feel free to review the full details of this month’s updates here. Instructional Design Knowledge Checks in […]

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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: Content Designer: Enhanced Documents Content design is a critical element of learner experience. The new release includes features that offer flexibility for instructors, making it easy to create engaging content. Comprehensive new layout […]

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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: Print answer key for assessments Last month, Blackboard Ultra added the printing functionality for Tests. Now, the option to print with answer keys is added. By clicking the print button on a Test, […]

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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: AI Design Assistant – output language selector Generating content in multiple languages can be beneficial for various courses. To accommodate this, the AI Design Assistant now includes an option to select an output […]

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