What's New

Highlights of Some of Blackboard's Newer Features

Student Preview

Instructors can now see their course just as the students do.

Note: With this new feature all current test student accounts will be removed from the Blackboard environment after the upgrade.

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Achievements

You will now be able to reward students for completing assignments and tests by giving them badges and certificates.

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Date Management

Once a course has been copied, professors can update the due dates of all items in the course from one location.

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Anonymous Grading

Eliminate any bias towards students by grading assignments anonymously. You can hide student's names while grading.

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SafeAssign Integration

SafeAssign is now integrated with the Assignment tool in Bb. This reduces the amount of management the instructor needs to do when grading SafeAssignments. Instructors will now only need to visit the Grade Center to grade SafeAssignments and they will have access to the Inline Grading feature.

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SafeAssign Originality Reports

The format of reports from SafeAssign have been redesigned, but continue to contain all information related to plagiarism.

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Grade Center Improvements

There are options when grading tests and assignments. Instructions using the Grade Schema can now make an A+ 100% or higher.

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Assessment Significant Figures

You can select the number of decimal points or figures for answers generated by Blackboard.

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Inline Grading

Inline Grading has been updated to include discussion boards, journals, wikis and blogs.

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Anonymous Grading

Eliminate any bias towards students by grading assignments anonymously. You can hide student's names while grading.

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My Grades Update

Students can order their grades by due date, last activity or course. Students can also select all graded, upcoming, or submitted assignments.

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Groups Management

Now, you can easily see who is in a group, which groups have been active, modify group membership and export group memberships among classes.

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Course Message Notifications

You can be notified of new messages in the My Blackboard Updates area, the Whats New Module, and in your email.

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