Preserve Font Families - 3900.60

Blackboard Learn SaaS
Ultra Experience
Ultra Course View
Impact: Instructors

In the past, we would set all fonts to Arial during the conversion process. The Ultra course view did not always support different font families.

We now preserve font families during the conversion process using the following logic:

  • If font family is Arial in Original Course View, set to Arial in the Ultra Course View.
  • If font family is Comic Sans MS in Original Course View, set to Comic Sans MS in the Ultra Course View.
  • If font family is Courier New in Original Course View, set to Courier New in the Ultra Course View.
  • If font family is Times New Roman in Original Course View, set to Times New Roman in the Ultra Course View.
  • If font family is Verdana in Original Course View, set to Verdana in the Ultra Course View.
  • If font family is anything else or not defined in the Original Course View, set to Open Sans in the Ultra Course View.

The font families in the Original course view are different from those in the Ultra course view. The above logic tries to preserve font families as best as possible to reduce cleanup.

Font families are preserved when converting text associated with the following items:

  • Announcements
  • Discussions
  • Assignments
  • Documents
  • Journals
  • Groups and Group Sets
  • Tests and Question Types

For administrators: There are no administrative configurations required.

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