The July 2025 - 3900.121 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;
- Premium
These improvements impact instructors, students, and administrators. Some features do require administrative action.
Instructors:
- Design engaging Documents faster with the AI Design Assistant
- Enhance instructor efficiency with expanded Activity page
- Hide Goals features for institutions
- Add captions to image blocks in Documents
- Review student engagement with announcements
- Support QTI question import in banks
- Apply the No Category option to Gradebook Items
- Enhanced pop-out rubric
- Navigate with previous and next functionality in Group Submissions
- Access Progress Tracking tool via Course Settings
- Video Studio: Create and edit recordings in Forms
Instructors and Students:
- Retroactively assign achievements to students
- Render mathematical formulas with MathJax
- Video Studio: Create and edit recordings in Assignments and Tests
- Video Studio: Editing capabilities in Discussions
Students:
- Course Catalog: Access More Information text with keyboard navigation
- Course Catalog: Enter confirmation codes with improved screen reader support
Administrators:
- Control how descriptions convert from Original to Ultra
- Allow instructors to switch between folders and learning modules
- Learning Object Repository: Identify object usage across courses and organizations
- Learning Object Repository: Enhance usability with modification date
- Learning Object Repository: Updated deletion message to show effects on associated items
- Advanced analytics with subject and term type sorting
- Manage Bulk Completion for Courses and Organizations
- Ensure visibility of file attachment options for node administrators in the Institutional Hierarchy
- Course Catalog: Navigate side panels more easily with keyboard and screen readers
All Users: