New Bb Features and Tools
On this page you can find new features introduced in the 2018 year-end Blackboard upgrade and tutorials on how to use these new features.
- Making course available with one click
- Attendance tool
- Cloud storage integration
- Audio/Video feedback on Grade Center
- 2016 Theme (more accessible and mobile compatible/friendly)
- Chemistry notation support
- Displaying question numbers on top of the test screen
- Grading assignments on Blackboard Instructor app (this is only for papers students submitted to Assignments. You cannot grade discussion posts, blogs, wikis, etc. on the mobile app.)
- Bb Collaborate Ultra
- You can upload files to a session long before the session starts. The uploaded files will stay in the session even after you log out of Bb. You could make a session available and upload the files to the session one day before the scheduled session. Then make the session unavailable until the scheduled time.
- A Tip: It is much faster to upload a PDF file than a PowerPoint file to your session room. Save your PowerPoint file to PDF file and then upload the PDF file to your session.
- Grade Center Enhancement
- You can see column names in full in the "Full Grade Center".
- All grade columns and "My Grades" support up to five decimal places, are not rounded and are consistent for all display types (score, percentage and letter grades).
- You can delete multiple grade columns at once by going to Manage > "Column Organization" screen from the "Full Grade Center".
- Discussion Board “Replies to me”
- In addition to "Total posts", "Unread posts" and "Total participants" on the discussion board page, a column "Replies to me" is added so that unread replies to your own posts can be easily identified and read.
- Enhanced mobile experience for blogs and journals
- You will now have a much-improved experience using Blogs and Journals on your mobile device. For example, options for filtering posts or navigating groups or users will appear below currently viewed posts.
- Enhanced mobile experience with course navigation
- When you access Blackboard Learn through a browser mobile devices, you’ll notice that the navigation has been moved to a hamburger menu that remains there when you move from screen to screen.
- Tabs and subtabs now appear in your navigation choices.