The November 2025 - 4000.1 release is robust with features in eight areas:
- Instructional design;
- Mastery learning and learning pathways;
- Tests and assignments;
- Gradebook;
- Learner progression and personalized experience;
- Integrations;
- Blackboard core; and
- Premium
These improvements impact instructors, students, and administrators. Some features do require administrative action.
Instructors:
- Bulk change question points in tests
- Improved navigation from Gradebook column headers
- Choose whether to include hidden items in Gradebook downloads
- Automations: Automatically send messages to students based on course-level rules
- Generate or upload custom Achievement badges
Administrators:
- Use name or ID to search object Associations in the Learning Object Repository
- Quick Enroll for Ultra Courses
- Node-Admin “Login As” Restriction
- Configure Grade Pill Decimal Display and Rounding
- Grade Export: Choose which grade value is displayed on the grade-level approval screen
- Group subjects into Programs for aggregated reporting
- Course Catalog: Duplicate existing offerings from the Offering Management screen