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Blackboard commits to delivering product experiences that meet the global accessibility standards. As part of this commitment, Blackboard includes functional testing in our accessibility audit. Functional tests consists of screen reader users attempting tasks using mainly JAWS. They test new functionality that is available and common tasks. For example, creating an assignment as an instructor or taking a test as a student. These functional tests give Blackboard feedback on where our applications could use improvement. Blackboard uses this feedback to prioritize fixing accessibility issues.
The following is what we tested.
Blackboard Learn instructor features tested in 2021
Blackboard Learn SaaS, Ultra Experience
- Login
- Left base navigation
- Course
- Course content page
- Roster
- Course groups
- Meeting attendance
- Announcements
- Question banks
- Batch edit
- Create item
- Question pools
- Add calculated formula question
- Add essay question
- Add fill in the blank question
- Add matching question
- Add multiple choice question
- Add true/false question
- Test settings
- Originality report
- Assignment settings, rubrics, and submissions
- Journals
- Group discussion
- Calendar
- Messages
- Grades
- Gradebook settings
Blackboard Learn instructor features tested in 2020
Blackboard Learn SaaS, Ultra Experience
- Course
- Course content page
- Roster
- Course groups
- Meeting attendance
- Course announcements
- Question banks
- Batch edit
- Add calculated formula question
- Add essay question
- Add fill in the blank question
- Add matching question
- Add multiple choice question
- Add true/false question
- Re-use questions
- Grades & submissions
- Group discussion
- Organizations
- Calendar
- Messages
- Grades
- Download and upload grades
- Gradebook settings
- Course analytics
- Course reports
Ally instructor features tested in 2018
Blackboard Ally
- Accessibility score in the Instructor Feedback panel
- What this means carousel slide
More on the Instructor Feedback panel
Accessibility score
What this means carousel slide 1
What this means carousel slide 2
Blackboard Instructor features tested in 2018
Blackboard Instructor
- Course
- Announcements
- Course Content
- Grades
- Discussions
- Feedback on app
Collaborate moderator features tested in 2018
Collaborate with the Ultra experience
- Open Sessions menu
- Excluded: Blackboard Collaborate help and privacy policy
- My status and settings
- Chat
- Attendees panel
- Live closed captioning
- My Settings
- Polling
- Breakout Groups
- Share content
Blackboard Learn instructor features tested in 2018
Blackboard Learn SaaS, Ultra Experience
- Log in
- Profile
- Courses
- Course conversion process
- Add a document
- Add a folder
- Add a link
- Reorder content
- Make the course private
- Export from a course
- Import content
- Content Market
- Roster
- Attendance
- Create document and align to goals
- Create assignment
- Create group assignment
- Create an essay question
- Create a fill in the blank question
- Create multiple choice question
- Create true or false question
- Test settings
- Rubric
- Calendar
- Course schedule
- Discussion
- Message
- Conversation
- Grade a test with a rubric
- Grade a group assignment
- Grade a discussion
- Gradebook
- Overall Grade
- Gradebook settings
- Schema
- Gradebook calculation