Blackboard February 2023 Updates
These updates will be live on our system from the 2nd of February, 2023.
Instructors
- Technical Preview: Improved attempt switching when grading student submissions with multiple attempts
Now instructors can navigate directly between a student’s attempts. If a student has multiple attempts for an assessment, an instructor will see an option to switch attempts.
- Gradebook List View – Gradable items sorting
This function now allows instructors to sort their gradebook by markable items.
Instructors and Students
- Exemptions
Now instructors can provide exemptions. Students can view exempted items.
From the submission list view, select the ellipsis menu of a student and choose to add or edit the exemption.
- Extra credit questions in assessments
Instructors can now add additional questions that count for ‘extra credit’. This means that if a student answers extra credit questions correctly, it may be possible for the student to earn a score greater than 100% on the assessment. Due to this, we at Westminster suggest that this feature is used for formative assignments only.
- Hot spot question type – polygon shapes
An improvement to the Hot spot question type:
- A new polygon shape selector can be used to draw more complex shapes.
- Improved keyboard controls. Instructors can now create and place new hotspot shapes on the image canvas directly via the keyboard.
- Show Course Group Members
From the Course Groups page, users may expand a group set to see a list of groups. Now each group has a “Show Members” option. Group members are listed alphanumerically in a panel. Users may search for a specific group member.
Students
Student Gradebook record sorting
Now students can use sorting controls to temporarily change the order for all columns in the Gradebook.
All users
Mobile App: User Profile Card
Users will be able to view their information to the full extent, see the profile card, and play name pronunciation.
Administrators
Login As
Admin now have the ability to log in as a user.
- Course Auto-Archive Retention Policy Change
If a course still exists in Learn, the process always removes archives older than 30 days.
Retain third-party app icons defined in the Developer Portal
When a tool provider or an administrator sets an icon in the Developer Portal, administrators cannot change it.