April 2022 – 3900.37 Release
Educators consider many areas as they design high-quality, engaging courses. This release features improvements for instructors and students around assessment. Other features focus on intuitive and time saving workflows and surfacing data insights.
The April 2022 - 3900.37 release includes several new features.
Instructors:
- flexible question presentation including one question at a time
- efficiency for content creation via content duplication (granular content copy within the current Ultra course)
- improved control over when students' see assessment results, which helps with academic integrity
- choice and control for grades auto-posting
- the calculated numeric question type supports assessment across various disciplines
- download assessment results to support external analysis and evaluation
- reporting for submission receipts for easier student support
- improved access to the Course Activity Related to Grades report
- enhanced Blackboard Instructor app
Instructors and students:
- code snippet option in the rich text editor to add value in programming, logic, math, and other computing courses
- In-Product updates and user engagement surveys a to support client feedback
- Session time-out warnings for Original Courses to help prevent loss of authored content
Students:
- greater insights with improved access to the How Am I Doing? performance report
Administrators:
- easier management over the option to display the gradebook username by course role
- addition of branded URLs in scheduled notification emails
- manage hierarchy level administrators by API, which is helpful for segmenting access to Blackboard Data reporting
- improvements to permissions