{"id":22073,"date":"2026-06-04T11:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T11:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/blackboardhelp\/?page_id=22073"},"modified":"2026-06-04T11:00:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T11:00:33","slug":"june-2026-updates","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/blackboardhelp\/june-2026-updates\/","title":{"rendered":"June 2026 Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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These are the latest Blackboard updates SaaS release 4000.17, which will be live on our system from 4th June 2026.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Assignments and Tests<\/a><\/span><\/p>

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Improved rubric usability when adding or adjusting grades\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>

Instructors can override grades without locking the rubric as well as provide feedback at the criterion-level for single or multiple attempts. Grades entered in the rubric grade pill update the attempt grade\u00a0immediately.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

For discussions and journals, grades now save at the attempt-level. The override workflow has been removed in these areas for a more consistent grading experience.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

To improve consistency with the Flexible Grading page, we updated the rubric score box label from \u201cSubmission\u201d to \u201cRubric Score\u201d.\u00a0To improve clarity, we also removed the sentence \u201cYou can only override the final grade for assessments with multiple attempts. Individual submissions are scored with a rubric.\u201d from underneath the rubric score box.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Track Announcement engagement by student\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>

Instructors can now check which announcements a student has read or not read on the new Announcements tab of the Student Overview page.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

On the Student Overview page, instructors select the Announcements tab for a list of which announcements each student has and has not read.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

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These are the latest Blackboard updates SaaS release 4000.17, which will be live on our system from 4th June 2026. Assignments and Tests Learner Progression and Personalised Experiences Assignments and Tests Improved rubric usability when adding or adjusting grades\u00a0\u00a0 Instructors…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":815,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-22073","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/blackboardhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/blackboardhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/blackboardhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/blackboardhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/815"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/blackboardhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22073"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/blackboardhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22073\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22078,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/blackboardhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22073\/revisions\/22078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/blackboardhelp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}