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September 2025
September 2025
Blackboard Ultra Updates
For more detailed information, see What’s New in Blackboard – September 2025
What's New for Instructors?
Enhance Documents with new Block Styling: helps instructors create more engaging content.
Use Pop-out Rubric when grading Group Submissions: Instructors can now use the pop-out rubric when grading group submissions in Flexible Grading. This enhancement brings the same efficient grading experience already available for individual submissions to group work.
The following features are not available for STCC Blackboard Ultra
The following features are not available for STCC Blackboard Ultra
Generate attempt feedback summaries: this feature requires a premium license with AI capabilities.
Ally Updates
What's New for Instructors?
PDF quick fix remediation: When reviewing identified issues within PDF documents, Instructors can take advantage of available quick fixes for PDF files as part of Ally’s feedback and guidance. This includes the ability to fix issues for missing title, missing language, and/or OCR a scanned PDF all directly from within the Instructor Feedback panel.
Prior Updates
Prior Updates
For more detailed information, see What’s New in Blackboard – July 2025 (June 25, 2025)
What's New?
Expanded Activity Page
The updated Activity page features time-saving shortcuts that enable instructors to access items requiring grading quickly, view new course messages, open course activity reports to monitor student engagement, and read institutional announcements—all designed to streamline course management.
Review Student Engagement with Announcements
Verify which students have marked an announcement as viewed. By selecting the viewer count on the main Announcements page, instructors can open a list showing who has and hasn’t acknowledged the message.
Apply the No Category Option to Gradebook Items
Select "No Category" in the Grade Category dropdown to exclude items from grading categories, helping maintain a clean and organized gradebook. This update allows for more precise control over grade organization without storing unnecessary data.
The following features are not available for STCC Blackboard Ultra
The following features are not available for STCC Blackboard Ultra
Video Studio is currently unavailable for STCC, so the Create and Edit Recordings features in Assignments and Tests are not available for use.
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