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Learn SaaS release 3900.89.0
Blackboard Learn SaaS Continuous Delivery v3900.89.0
Release to Test/Stage: Tuesday, 12 March 2024 | Release to Production: Thursday, 4 April 2024
Original Experience, Ultra Experience
Original Course View, Ultra Course View
For full feature details, please review the corresponding notes for the Learn 3900.89.0 version included below on this page. Details can be found Behind the Blackboard.
Latest release: 3900.89.0-rel.5+7903789 to Test/Stage servers to take place on 12 March 2024.
For more information on updates and bug fixes, please visit Behind the Blackboard.
April 2024 – 3900.89 Release
The April 2024 - 3900.89 release is robust with features in 10 areas:
- Instructional design;
- Competency based education;
- Tests and assignments;
- Communication and collaboration;
- Flexible grading;
- Gradebook;
- Learner progression and personalized experience;
- Integrations;
- Learn core and security, and
- Upgrade to Ultra
These improvements impact instructors, students, and administrators. Some features do require administrative action.
Instructors:
- AI Design Assistant – Context picker for Learning Modules, Assignments, Discussions, and Journals
- Default question points value changed from 10 to 1
- Duplicate questions in Assessments, Forms, and Question Banks
- Likert answer options expanded to include 4 and 6
- Auto-submitted indicator in attempt logs
- Overall grade information added to gradebook download
- Edit gradebook category for Partner Cloud content
- Long names visible and sorting controls for the Student Activity report for assessments on small devices and mobile app
- Individual date adjustments from Batch Edit
Instructors and Students:
- Student feedback remains visible to students regardless of release condition settings
- Anonymous posts for Discussions
- Usability improvements for flexible grading
- Add question feedback when grading by student in Flexible Grading
- Calculations changed from using BigDecimal to BigFraction
Students:
Instructors and Administrators:
Administrators:
Gradebook
Calculations changed from using BigDecimal to BigFraction – 3900.89
Blackboard Learn SaaS and Learn 9.1
Ultra Experience and Original Experience
Ultra Course View and Original Course View
Impact: Instructors, Students
Instructors need a gradebook that supports diverse grading scenarios. We are changing the software library used to perform calculations in calculated columns and the overall course grade.
Example: A course contains 3 assignments worth 22 points each. The student scores 13/22 on the first assignment, 14/22 on the second assignment, and 15/22 on the third assignment. An instructor creates a calculated column to calculate the average of these assignments.
Using the new software library, BigFraction, the average will calculate as 14/22.
With the former software library, BigDecimal, the average would incorrectly calculate to 13.99/22. The new software library ensures calculations compute as expected.
For administrators: This change applies to both Ultra and Original courses. There are no configurations needed.
Learner Progression & Personalized Experience
Long names visibility and sorting controls for the Student Activity report for assessments on small devices and mobile app – 3900.89
Blackboard Learn SaaS
Ultra Experience
Ultra Course View
Original course view
Impact: Instructors
Related Topic: Student Activity Details for Assessments
Depending on the culture, personal name lengths vary. To continue demonstrating our commitment to diversity and inclusion, we adjusted long names in the Student Activity report for assessments. This change ensures that names are visible on a variety of devices. This helps instructors avoid confusion when viewing students with similar names.
Also, instructors can now sort the student list by last name in small devices so they can organize the list easily.
Image 1: Long names visibility and sorting control in the Student Activity report for an assessment on a small screen
For administrators: This feature is available for all Ultra courses. There are no configurations needed.
Converting Building Block content to LTI: Student submissions and feedback – 3900.89
Blackboard Learn SaaS, Blackboard Learn 9.1
Original Experience
Original Course View
Impact: Administrators
Related topic: Convert Building Blocks to LTI
We remain committed to ensuring a smooth transition experience from building blocks to LTI. We have further enhanced our conversion tool. Now administrators can include student submissions and instructor feedback.
During the conversion process, the tool prompts administrators to select whether to include the content links added in student submissions and feedback. If selected, those links in student submissions and feedback transition to LTI format within the selected course.
Image 1. Option to migrate student submission and feedback content
We encourage administrators to review the conversion tool settings. Please make informed choices based on your institution's requirements.
For administrators: If a course contains content from Kaltura, Panopto, Echo360, MediaSite and/or ShareStream building blocks, you must perform the conversion process for each building block.
Moodle Conversion Improvement: Gradebook Categories – 3900.89
Blackboard Learn SaaS
Ultra Experience and Original Experience
Ultra Course View and Original Course View
Impact: Instructors and Administrators
Related Topic: Migrate from Moodle
Categories provide a way for instructors to group assessments together in the Gradebook. Instructors can use categories to adjust the weighting of items in the Gradebook. Now when importing a Moodle package (.mbz), categories are preserved. Instructors will have the option to align these categories to assessments.
For administrators: This feature is available for all courses. There are no configurations needed.
Learn SaaS release 3900.86.0
Blackboard Learn SaaS Continuous Delivery v3900.86.0
Release to Test/Stage: Tuesday, 6 February 2024 | Release to Production: Thursday, 7 March 2024
Original Experience, Ultra Experience
Original Course View, Ultra Course View
For full feature details, please review the corresponding notes for the Learn 3900.86.0 version included below on this page. Details can also be found Behind the Blackboard.
Latest release: 3900.86.0-rel.41+0e2f9e0 to Production servers to took place on 14 March 2024.
For more information on updates and bug fixes, please visit Behind the Blackboard.
March 2024 – 3900.86 Release
The March 2024 - 3900.86 release is robust with features in 10 areas:
- Instructional design;
- Competency based education;
- Tests and assignments;
- Communication and collaboration;
- Flexible grading;
- Gradebook;
- Learner progression and personalized experience;
- Integrations;
- Learn core and security, and;
- Upgrade to Ultra
These improvements impact instructors, students, and administrators. Some features do require administrative action.
Instructors:
- AI Design Assistant – Context picker for test question generation
- Goal alignment to Journals
- No Due Date assessment setting
- Last used view state of flexible grading side panels preserved
- Gradebook item statistics
- Text grade schema converts to points
- Send messages to students from the Student Activity report for assessments on small and medium devices and the mobile app
- Moodle conversion improvements
Instructors and Students:
Administrators:
Integrations
Converting Building Block content to LTI: MediaSite course content – 3900.86
Blackboard Learn SaaS, Blackboard Learn 9.1
Original Experience
Original Course View
Impact: Administrators
Related topic: Convert Building Blocks to LTI
Mediasite, a comprehensive rich media system, integrates with Original courses via building blocks. With building block support ending, administrators can now use the conversion tool with Mediasite content.
The tool currently supports the conversion of content embedded with the content editor and mashup links. The conversion tool transitions Mediasite for content links from Building Block to LTI.
Image 1. The administrator accesses the tool to convert Building Block content to LTI
Image 2. The administrator selects the MediaSite Building Block and maps Building Block tools to LTI placements
Administrators must configure the MediaSite LTI integration before converting links. Custom parameters will not be required for this configuration.
Image 3. Building block mappings can be viewed and edited
Next, an administrator will choose courses to be scanned for MediaSite links. Select the MediaSite Building Block. Use the course search tool to select courses for link migration.
Image 4. The administrator selects the ShareStream Building Block and chooses courses to migrate
Administrators can monitor the status of a conversion process. Choose MediaSite as the Building Block. Define the start and end dates to find the desired migration task. Select Search. The results will indicate the number of courses that were successful, and the number of courses with failures.
Image 5. Checking the status of a migration task
For administrators: If a course contains content from MediaSite, ShareStream, Panopto, Kaltura and/or Echo360 building blocks, the conversion process must be performed once for each Building Block.
Converting Building Block content to LTI: Automatic Conversion – 3900.86
Blackboard Learn SaaS, Blackboard Learn 9.1
Original Experience
Original Course View
Impact: Administrators
Related topic: Convert Building Blocks to LTI
Many Original courses contain content links for the partners listed below. Now, we auto-convert Building Block links for these partner contents to LTI when importing an Original course or restoring an Original course archive.
- Kaltura
- Echo360
- Panopto
- ShareStream
- MediaSite
The automatic conversion ensures that course content transitions to LTI. This will promote consistency and adaptability across the platform.
For administrators: To ensure the auto-conversion of building block links to LTI, please review the following:
- The administrator must configure each building block in the Migration Service Settings section of the Conversion tool in the Admin Panel Settings.
- The administrator must configure each associated LTI integration before converting the links.
- The administrator will have the capability to enable/disable this functionality through a feature flag via a support ticket.
Rubric Associations API Enhancements – 3900.86
Blackboard Learn SaaS, Blackboard Learn 9.1
Ultra Experience, Original Experience
Ultra Course View, Original Course View
Impact: Administrators
Related topic: Learn APIs
Rubrics serve as a well-organized and transparent framework for assessing student work. Administrators can now manage associations for rubrics via API for the following:
- tests
- assignments (without questions)
- graded discussions
- individual questions (Original course view only)
Managing rubrics and their associations via API streamlines rubric alignment across many courses.
Administrators can now use the enhanced API to perform the full spectrum of CRUD operations: create, update and delete rubric associations.
Developers will gain access to the following endpoints:
- POST: public/v1/courses/{courseId}/rubrics/{rubricId}/associations
- PATCH: public/v1/courses/{courseId}/rubrics/{rubricId}/associations/{rubricAssociationId}
- DELETE: public/v1/courses/{courseId}/rubrics/{rubricId}/associations/{rubricAssociationId}
For administrators: Refer to the API documentation for detailed information about entitlements to perform CRUD operations on Rubric Associations.
Upgrade to Ultra
Moodle Conversion Improvements – 3900.86
Blackboard Learn SaaS, Blackboard Learn 9.1
Ultra Experience, Original Experience
Ultra Course View, Original Course View
Impact: Instructors
These improvements will not be available immediately in the release to Test/Stage environments for the 3900.86 release. We will update this note and send an email notification to followers of this page when it becomes available.
We continue to make progress on improving the conversion of Moodle courses. With this update, we're adding support for converting the following Moodle Question Types:
- Multiple Choice (Single Answer)
- Multiple Choice (Multiple Answers)
- True/False
- Matching
- Short Answer
- Numerical
- Essay
- Calculated
- Calculated Multichoice (Single Answer)
- Calculated Multichoice (Multiple Answers)
- Calculated Simple
For administrators: This feature will be available for all courses. There are no configurations needed.
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