Feature highlights
This video shows you some of the Blackboard Ultra features and updates released on October 4th 2024. Updates will be automatically available within your courses, organisations and content menus. You’ll find more detailed release notes below.
Student Feedback now in one place
New Discussion Posts Triggers Email
Changes to Ultra Documents
Topic: Content
Feature Details: Updates include a more consistent redo button, and a list of options as text for auto resizing of content areas. These can also be use when manually moving and resizing boxes.
What does this mean for you?: This allows better interaction with an Ultra document when editing. Users may find the options easier to navigate.
Guide: Create an Ultra Document
Knowledge Check updates
Topic: Content
Feature Details: The difficulty default will be “–” until there are attempts from students in the knowledge check.
What does this mean for you?: Knowledge checks in a document were added in the previous (September) update. This minor change will allow users to better gauge their question statistics rather than worry that their questions are too hard without student interaction data to confirm this.
Guide: Ultra Document Knowledge Check
Student feedback now in one place
Topic: Tests and Assessment
Feature Details: Students can access all their feedback for a Blackboard assignment when viewing their attempt.
What does this mean for you?: You can add attempt feedback, rubric information and an overall feedback to a Blackboard assignment. Students can now see this feedback all in one place, meaning if you wish to use it all, they can see it all, and not have different places to try and find how to improve their work.
Guides: Student Guide on Viewing Feedback
Markers Guide to Add Marks and Feedback
Email notifications for new Discussion posts
Topic: Learning Activities
Feature Details: When you choose to follow a discussion, you now will receive email notifications for new posts.
What does this mean for you?: This feature allows you to follow a discussion, and on top of receiving Activity Stream notifications, you can receive emails to your inbox when new posts are made. This can be every time a post is made or you can change your notification settings to have them sent once a day as a digest. Clicking in the email opens the discussion.
Guide:
If you have an idea for a Blackboard feature or improvement, please raise a ticket with the TEL Team.