The May 2025 - 3900.116 release is robust with features in 7 areas:
- Instructional design;
- Mastery learning and learning pathways;
- Communication and collaboration;
- Tests & Assignments;
- Gradebook;
- Blackboard Core & Security; and
- Premium
These improvements impact instructors, students, and administrators. Some features do require administrative action.
Instructors:
- AI Design Assistant: Auto-generate AI Conversations
- Achievements show current recipients without browser refresh
- Qualitative rubrics with no-points option
- Gradebook accessibility enhancements
- Grade Export v2: Pagination added to the approval workflow
- Grade Export v2: Select items across pages added to the approval workflow
- Grade Export v2: Buttons that are not enabled no longer appear in the approval workflow
- Grade Export v2: Columns renamed on Grades Approval and Transfer screen
- Video Studio - Analytics for student engagement
- Video Studio - Automatically detect different speakers in a recording
- Course Catalog: Copy discussions from course template
Instructors and Students:
- Enhancements to discussions
- “View submission one time” test results setting
- Text-based columns in Gradebook
- Video Studio - 360° Video: easy link from desktop to Virtual Reality Headset
Instructors and Administrators:
- Learning Object Repository: New search function for inserting objects
- Learning Object Repository: Notification emails
- IP Restriction for Ultra Courses - Multiple Test Rooms – Hide Profiles
Students:
Administrators: