September 2023 Updates
Instructors
Sorting controls for manually added gradable Items
Sorting Controls enable instructors to organise the following information in the gradebook: Student name, Grade, Feedback, Post status in both ascending and descending order.
This order is only temporary and resets when you leave the page.
SafeAssign Direct Submit
Instructors can now use the Direct Submit option to submit assignments to SafeAssign under Books and Tools. There are two options – Upload File and Copy/Paste. (Add title and then paste text).
An Originality Report is generated. Submissions are added to the institutional database.
If adding materials, the plagiarism check should be turned off.
Submissions are private by default but can be shared with other instructors on the course.
Items can be searched by privacy or shared or All, Added or Not Added.
Instructors can organise entries by Name, Matching Score or Submission Date.
Delegated grading distribution by group membership
Instructors can assign graders to groups of students. Each grader will only see the submissions made by students in the group(s) assigned to them.
This is only for individual submissions and tests- group assessments and anonymous submissions are not supported.
Instructors can assign multiple graders to each group in the group set and share the grading responsibility for the group members.
Graders assigned to a group of students will only see submissions for those students on the assignment’s submission page and can only post grades for their assigned group members. Any unassigned instructors enrolled in the course will see all student submissions on the assignment’s submission page. They also post grades for all students.
To delegate randomly to course graders, first set up a randomised Group Set.
Partial credit auto-distribution for correct answers to Multiple Choice Questions
Instructors can award partial credit for Multiple-choice questions with more than one correct answer. Partial credit is given automatically across correct answers. Instructors can change the value to add more or less credit to particular answers but the value must come to 100%.
Last access course alert default set to 15 days
The default for the “Number of days a student is inactive” has changed from 5 to 15 days. The “overall grade percentage is below” can still be determined by the instructor. These alerts can be removed or adjusted.
Student Activity report for assessment enhancements for small devices and the Mobile app
– The Student Activity Report now has more capabilities and instructors can now access the following information from their mobiles and tablets:
-Late submission indicator
-Date opened
-Date started
-Attempts
Instructors and students
Send Reminder from Gradebook list and grid views
There is now a “Send Reminder” option in the Gradebook for Instructors to contact students who have yet to submit. This can be found by selecting the gradebook column header. A confirmation message appears and displays the number of non-submitting individuals or groups who will receive the reminder.
Anonymous comments in Bb Annotate
Instructors can now post Bb Annotate comments anonymously. They also have the option to mark inline comments as anonymous when creating them and after comments are added.
Students
Deselect answer choice for Multiple Choice question
Previously, a student could select an answer choice for a multiple-choice question, change their mind, and mark another answer choice. However, it wasn’t possible for the student to deselect an answer choice to return the question to an unanswered state. Now, students can deselect an answer choice. Deselecting a choice also allows the student to skip the question and return to it using the unanswered questions filter.
All users
Inactive session termination warning in Mobile App
To improve the user experience, users are now alerted 6 minutes before the session expires. When the session expires, the user is logged out. If the app runs in the background, it counts as an inactive session.
