Blackboard Communications HQ Mobile App 5.5
We are excited to announce the release of a new version (5.5) of our Blackboard Communications HQ app.
Now available to teachers!
Districts with our Blackboard Teacher Communications product can now offer a mobile version of our SEND MESSAGE interface to their teachers.
- User Management for Teachers
- Teacher selected individuals will now be populated in the recipient’s section for email, phone and SMS
- Teacher ability to edit the list of recipients that I have previously selected
- Added search functionality for Teachers to search through recipients
- Added a visual indication of the “who” teachers are sending the message to (groups, students, parents, classes)
- Added a visual indicator to indicate which role type a Teacher is sending a message to
- Added the ability for teachers to select groups/individuals
- Composing Messages for Teachers
- Added subject and body of my email communication
- Ability to attach photos to my email communications
- Ability to record audio messages
- Added text-to-speech
- Added the ability to save a copy of a message on the HQ app to the miscellaneous folder for future use
- Recipients added to a message are now saved along with the draft of message
- Message Editing for Teachers
- Ability to be able to delete text to speech recordings
- Ability to listen to the text to speech message
- Ability to edit Delivery Address
- Message Sending for Teachers
- Ability to Send to the users selected when pressing the send button
- Ability to send Text Message communications
- Added the ability to configure the send time of a message
- App Options/Configuration for Teachers
- Added the ability to configure the language of message notifications to the users preferred language
- Updated app to make sure that the delivery methods set per school are respected on the App, so teachers can only send approved messaging types
- App UI improvements
- General UI improvements to the app
Bug fixes
- Improved search functionality in Recipients
- Fixed an issue where the app would sometimes crash when selecting and deselecting recipients
- Fixed an issue where sent messages not saved in Saved messages when sent on Android device
- Fixed an issue where Groups for Teacher Send should display organization name for teachers that tie to multiple organizations
- Fixed an issue where the ‘Recipients’ section search, under Classes, the ‘All Classes’ sub-heading is not displaying the total number of classes
- Fixed an issue where Class selections become hidden when submenu is accessed and back is tapped