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Learn SaaS release 3900.26.0: Release to client Test/Stage environments
We're releasing a new Learn version 3900.26.0 (full release number 3900.26.0-rel.2+6bc051d) to client Test/Stage servers on Wednesday, October 13, 2021. The details on new features and updates will be published in the corresponding individual feature release notes.
Set and display pronouns in Ultra Course View - 3900.26.0
As part of planned diversity, equity, and inclusion improvements, this release gives institutions the option to allow users to express to others their personal pronouns. This fosters greater respect between students and with faculty engaging online by letting others know how best to refer to them in their group activities and discussions.
Included in this release:
- Administrators can opt-in to allow use of the new pronoun field.
- Administrators can set the pronoun values users will be able to select, allowing conformance with institutional standards, policy, and culture.
- Administrators can allow users to request additional pronouns to be added to the approved list.
- When allowed, users can select one or more pronoun values to display to others.
- Users in Ultra Course View courses can see the pronouns populated by others in the class.
- Data integration supports populating pronoun values for users through REST, flat file, XML, LIS, and IMS Enterprise methods.
A future release will allow for the display of pronouns in Original Course View courses. User self-selection of pronouns will require that Base Navigation is enabled. When using Original Experience (Base Navigation is not enabled), only data population through data integration will be supported.
Ultra: Course Overview M2 – Banner - 3900.26.0
We have frequently heard from clients about a desire to include additional visuals into Ultra Course View, for both aesthetic and identification purposes. As a next phase in our work to improve overall navigation and an intuitive course experience, the course card image from base navigation can now be used as a course banner in Ultra courses.
When adding a new course image, instructors can opt to make it visible within the course and are able to easily crop the image to the preferred size and zoom in or out on the uploaded image to select the part they want to focus on. This change also makes it easier for instructors to add a course schedule and for students to identify course faculty members and class meeting days, times, and location.
Providing a visually appealing course, images consistent with Base Navigation, and easy-to-locate course details, is key to engagement and the overall student experience.
Ultra Rich Text Editor Improvements: Tables. New options available when using tables - 3900.26.0
We recently released the tables function in the Ultra rich text editor. In this release, we are pleased to share that additional formatting options are now available when using tables.
- Text Style
- Alignment options
- List Attachment
- Insert content
These options provide greater flexibility for faculty and students, especially in disciplines where the presentation and formatting of data is particularly important.
Microsoft Teams integration - 3900.26.0
Blackboard is excited to announce continued improvements to the recently released Microsoft Teams classes integration, solidifying our commitment to providing best-in-class tools and technologies for the Ultra Course View.
To ensure consistency of data processing and to reduce potential synchronization issues between Learn Ultra course view and an institutions Microsoft Tenant, at initial launch in August, Blackboard introduced a new Institutional email field within the Student Information System framework. This was specifically for cloud providers such as Microsoft who use email as their primary user identifier. This was made available for all SIS integration types.
This release includes the following capabilities:
- The ability to allow courses to be Archived and Restored but keeping all institution emails intact. This is a continued change management improvement, and the first of several process improvements planned with this integration.
- Support for large course sizes up to 10,000 enrollments, keeping inline with the maximum number of users that can be supported in a single Microsoft Team.
- Greater system administration messaging within the integration setup flow, to detect Microsoft Tenants that don’t have the Teams Education profile added. This was an enhancement added as a result of our initial beta testing that took place earlier this year.
Progress Tracking M1.2: Permanent Tracking and Feature Flag Removal - 3900.26.0
As part of our August release, we included our Beta version of progress tracking. From this release on, progress tracking in Ultra Course View (UCV) could be activated in new courses, where no previous activity had taken place. This feature was also the first functionality behind a feature flag. In other words, administrators had the ability to decide whether they want to enable progress tracking at their institution or hold it for a while. We are happy to share that we are removing the current limitations around this feature.
With this release, instructors will be able to enable progress tracking at any time during the term. Enabling this functionality will give students an easy way to keep track of what they have done inside each one of their courses. When enabling progress tracking later than the beginning of the term, participatory items will be retroactively marked as complete. For example, assessments submitted previously by students will be marked as complete. Non-participatory items, like Ultra documents, will still need to be manually marked by students.
This is the next step in our work on progress tracking, and we’re excited to move forward alongside our clients. Future releases will provide additional instructor capabilities, such as the ability to monitor progress made by their students inside their courses.
API updates - 3900.26.0
We’ve made some noteworthy API updates, including the ability to manage the release or visibility of a course content based on timing or student success criteria:
- Ultra Discussion APIs: Read - Discover (Filters). We’ve made some noteworthy API updates, including filters for the READ Discussion topic(s) and post(s) - collection and individual, where the user can filter before/after creation, or modify dates.
For more information about our REST Public APIs, please explore the Learn API at: https://developer.blackboard.com/portal/displayApi
Highlight on bug fixes - 3900.26.0
The bug fixes in this Learn release include:
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'Needs grading' didn't take effect in Ultra grade journal on 'Grades and Participation' screen: this issue is now fixed and the Needs Grading filter is working as expected.
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Unable to rename file in Ultra assignment: when an instructor tries to rename a file added into an Ultra assignment, a pop up titled "Close Without Saving?" appears when the user navigates away from the page. The edit option is there for instructors to be able to rename assignment's files, and it is now working without errors.
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When the search box was clear in the gradebook grid view, not all columns were restored: when interacting with the search box, the elements (students(rows) and gradable items (columns)) are filtered. Now when the input is clear (by using the X button or removing the text explicitly with the keyboard), and all elements are restored, meaning no filtering.
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Completed Course was not displayed in the vertical message tab for students: this has been fixed. Completed courses are displayed in the messages tab for students.
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The number of unread messages was displayed twice on the Japan Language pack: the number of unread messages was displayed twice in the Ultra Base navigation on the Japanese Language. This is now fixed.
You can view all maintenance items in Behind the Blackboard. Our Known Issue articles provide information for individual bug fixes, and may include bug descriptions and which Learn versions were affected. You can filter bug fixes by SaaS release for easier navigation. View the 3900.26.0 maintenance issues on Behind the Blackboard.
Learn SaaS release 3900.23.0: Update to client Test/Stage and Production environments
We’re applying an updated version of 3900.23.0 to client Test/Stage servers on Wednesday October 6, 2021. The full release number (3900.23.0-rel.27+bf491df) will remain the same. This version will also be released to client Production servers on Thursday, October 7, 2021, in our regular monthly upgrade.
Updates in these releases include:
- In the Ultra Experience, when creating system notifications, only 100 institutional roles were showing if more roles than that were present. We fixed the issue.
Learn SaaS release 3900.23.0: Update to client Test/Stage environments
We’re applying an updated version of 3900.23.0 (full release number 3900.23.0-rel.27+bf491df) to client Test/Stage servers on Tuesday, October 5, 2021.
Updates in this release include:
- In the Ultra Experience, when instructors sent messages to course users and then marked the course as complete, the unread message count for students wasn't reduced when message was read. We fixed the issue.
- In the Original Experience, when admins copied a course with embedded LTI links within the Rich Text Editor to a new or existing course, those links broke. They were still pointing back to the old course where users of the new course didn't have permissions. We've fixed the issue, but the links within course copies made before this fix still need to be manually fixed.
Learn SaaS release 3900.23.0: Update to client Test/Stage environments
We’re applying an updated version of 3900.23.0 (full release number 3900.23.0-rel.20+390fc02) to client Test/Stage servers on Tuesday, September 28, 2021.
Updates in this release include internal enhancements and system optimization.
Learn SaaS release 3900.23.0: Update to client Test/Stage environments
We’re applying an updated version of 3900.23.0 (full release number 3900.23.0-rel.19+2fb7fc2) to client Test/Stage servers on Tuesday, September 21, 2021.
Updates in this release include:
- In the Ultra Course View, students couldn't access the feedback when selecting the feedback icon in tests that used Respondus LDB, getting a console error instead. We've fixed the issue.
- In the Original and Ultra Experiences, some client Test/Stage instances experienced outages due to an incorrect query during notification cleanup. We’ve fixed the issue.
- In the Original Course View, LTI Contents of Original course in Ultra base navigation calendar were displaying permission errors when selected, preventing users from opening them. We've fixed the issue.
- In the Original and Ultra Course Views, instructors were required to login again to Learn, after they accessed an LTI tool and selected the Return to Learn button. We've fixed the issue.
Learn SaaS release 3900.21.0 and 3900.23.0: Update to client Production and Test/Stage environments
We’re applying an updated version of 3900.21.0 to client Production servers and an updated version of 3900.23.0 to client Test/Stage servers on Friday, September 17, 2021. Full Learn release numbers will not change.
Updates in this release include:
- Update to the Ultra UI for iOS 15.
Learn SaaS release 3900.23.0: Update to client Test/Stage environments
We’re applying an updated version of 3900.23.0 (full release number 3900.23.0-rel.11+a845e27) to client Test/Stage servers on Tuesday, September 14, 2021.
Updates in this release include:
- In the Original Experience, some clients' SafeHTML policy was overwritten by default after rolling restart took place. We've fixed the issue.
Ultra: Submission Receipt - 3900.23.0
Students need a way to ensure their work has been correctly submitted into the system. There are times where a student believes they have submitted their work when, in fact, it wasn't sent at all, or it wasn't sent successfully.
This new functionality provides students with a unique tracking number that confirms their academic submission. Students can copy and save this number as proof of their work, and evidence for academic disputes.
A modal window with the tracking information will appear to students after they submit their work. They can also receive an email with that information if they have a registered email, and download a similar text file to keep for their records.
Rubric Criterion Increase - 3900.23.0
Rubrics are grading tools that help instructors to assess student performance and give feedback in detail. Before, Ultra allowed a maximum of 10 columns and rows. To provide more flexibility for the grading processes, Blackboard now decided to increase the limit up to 15 columns and rows.
We are conscious of the different pedagogical approaches and practices. We support institutions and instructors who prefer to grade students with a greater level of granularity.
Ultra: Rich Text Editor improvements: Add table - 3900.23.0
For deeper versatility in the Rich Text Editor, this 3rd milestone brings the Add Table functionality to our users. Tables are a common way for instructors and students to align and organize content in a customized manner, better suited to their own preferences.
For the time being, only a few options are not yet available when using tables:
- Text Style
- Alignment options
- List
- Undo
- Attachments
- Insert content
API updates - 3900.23.0
We’ve made some noteworthy API updates, including the ability to manage the release or visibility of a course content based on timing or student success criteria:
- Adaptive Release API Support: GET and POST methods for Rule APIs and Rule Criteria APIs
For more information about our REST Public APIs, please explore the Learn API at: https://developer.blackboard.com/portal/displayApi
Highlight on bug fixes - 3900.23.0
The bug fixes in this Learn release include:
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In the Ultra Course View, when creating assignments with the auto zero set on, any past due standard assignments and basic LTI links are marked with automatic zeros after their due date. However, items deployed using partner cloud were never marked. We've fixed the issue and now the partner cloud and the manual column set the automatic zeros as required.
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In the Ultra Course View, in the instructor view, the help bubble icon on a discussion board disappeared once an instructor had created and closed the discussion. When accessing the discussion again, the icon disappeared as well. We've fixed the issue.
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In the Ultra Experience, an instructor added a SCORM package to a course content with a grade category TEST/ASSIGNMENT, and then created another test with a release condition based on the performance of the SCORM content. However, the SCORM test didn't appear for students. We've fixed the issue.
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In the Ultra Course View, when users tried to add content to a course by selecting the plus sign "+" for adding content, then selecting on "+ Create", a menu on the right was displayed. If the user then selected the 'X' for canceling the action on that menu, the content area didn't refresh properly. We've fixed the issue.
You can view all maintenance items in Behind the Blackboard. Our Known Issue articles provide information for individual bug fixes, and may include bug descriptions and which Learn versions were affected. You can filter bug fixes by SaaS release for easier navigation. View the 3900.23.0 maintenance issues on Behind the Blackboard.
Learn SaaS release 3900.23.0: Release to client Test/Stage environments
We’re releasing a new Learn version 3900.23.0 (full release number 3900.23.0-rel.7+ad745cb) to client Test/Stage servers on Tuesday, September 7, 2021. The details on new features and updates will be published during the course of that day.
Convertidor de archivos de Ally en Blackboard Assist (disponibilidad en Norteamérica)
El convertidor de archivos de Ally permite que los estudiantes personalicen su experiencia de aprendizaje. Puede convertir archivos a formatos alternativos que se adapten mejor a sus necesidades, dispositivos y preferencias de aprendizaje.
- Disponible sin costo con Blackboard Assist habilitado. No se necesita una licencia de Ally adicional.
- Convierte archivos a formatos alternativos y más accesibles, como HTML, ePub, braille electrónico, audio o BeeLine Reader. También convierte a documentos PDF con reconocimiento óptico de caracteres (OCR).
- En el caso de las instituciones que cuentan con la licencia de Ally, el convertidor de archivos permite que los estudiantes conviertan sus propios archivos, o los que encuentren en sus investigaciones o proyectos.
- Este producto se incluye automáticamente con Blackboard Assist. Si lo prefiere, puede desactivarlo en el Panel del administrador > Configuración de Partner Cloud.
El convertidor de archivos de Ally estará disponible con Blackboard Assist para clientes de educación superior el 5 de agosto en Norteamérica. La disponibilidad para los clientes que se encuentran fuera de esta región está prevista para finales de este año.
Mejoras del chatbot
El 17 de junio, la sección de éxito estudiantil de Blackboard actualizó el chatbot. El chatbot se incluye en Blackboard Learn sin costo adicional, por lo que también se mejora la experiencia de Learn:
- Consulte la documentación de ayuda de Blackboard Learn para los profesores y los estudiantes.
- Además de hacer preguntas al chatbot, los usuarios ahora pueden recorrer las categorías ordenadas jerárquicamente para descubrir temas frecuentes.
- La información de ayuda resultante ahora se visualiza directamente en la interacción del chat. Los usuarios pueden hacer clic para abrir toda la documentación desde el sitio de ayuda.
- Los artículos de ayuda predeterminados hacen referencia a la vista del curso Ultra para asistir mejor a los usuarios que se están adaptando a la nueva interfaz y que necesitan asistencia. No obstante, los usuarios pueden cambiar fácilmente a las versiones de los artículos de ayuda sobre la vista del curso Original cuando lo deseen.
- Las instituciones pueden cambiar a la versión premium del chatbot de Blackboard, que ahora permite agregar recursos de ayuda específicos de la institución y definir un personaje de chatbot único y con marca.
Actualmente, el chatbot de Blackboard es compatible con los entornos SaaS de Norteamérica en inglés que usan la navegación básica. La actualización del 17 de junio se aplica a todos los entornos de producción y de prueba.
Mejoras de Bb Annotate
Como parte del trabajo del primer trimestre en Bb Annotate, lanzamos las siguientes correcciones de problemas conocidos que afectaban a nuestros clientes:
- Algunos usuarios no podían eliminar una nota con anotaciones después de volver a seleccionarla, a menos que volvieran a editarla. Corregimos el error.
- No funcionaba correctamente la opción de seleccionar de texto en un documento, lo que causaba dificultades a la hora de resaltar los documentos o agregar notas en ellos. Corregimos el error.
- Cuando se agregaba una nota o un comentario en el archivo, también se agregaba un recuento de comentarios, lo cual provocaba confusión y la sensación de que había una respuesta oculta. Corregimos el error.
Las correcciones se implementaron en las regiones de Singapur, Polymall, Corea y GovCloud el 3 de marzo de 2021. Las actualizaciones para los clientes en las regiones de Sídney, Europa, Canadá y EE. UU. se realizaron el 12 de mayo de 2021.
Mensaje informativo de Annotate
En las vistas del curso Original y Ultra, se pueden ver diferencias de espacio de formato entre el documento original cargado y el que se muestra en línea para los archivos .docx, .doc, .ppt y .pptx. Agregamos un mensaje de información en la pantalla para que los usuarios estén al tanto de esto. El mensaje aparecerá en cualquier lugar en el que esté activado Bb Annotate, incluida la vista Mobile. Los profesores y estudiantes pueden descargar el archivo original como de costumbre.
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