December 2024 – 3900.106 Release

• Improvements to grading assignments: New labels for late submissions
• Grade override improvements
• Group management: performance improvements
• Discussion enhancement: new post indicator
• Navigation added for LTI and SCORM items within learning modules
• Copy items from courses improvement
• Known Issues

Improvements for late submissions

To help instructors quickly identify late submissions in the attempt banner, late submissions now have a Late indicator. The wording has also been updated from Submitted late <date> to Submitted <date>.

Grade override improvements

To increase transparency when overriding grades, an Override indicator has been added to overridden grades on the Grades & Participation screen for Discussions.

The Undo Override workflow on the Discussion grading interface has been implemented, which mimics the Undo Override workflow in the Journal grading interface.

Group Management: Performance Improvements

To help with management of groups especially in large courses, group performance has been improved; saving groups is now a reported 80%-90% quicker (testing carried out by Blackboard).

Discussion Enhancement: New Post Indicator

In an effort to help with directing engagement, a “New” indicator has been added that displays next to posts and replies that a user has not yet accessed.

Image 1. The “New” indicator alongside a post and a reply

Navigation Added for LTI and SCORM Items within Learning Modules

For easier navigation, students can now select arrows to the left and right of LTI or SCORM items to move through learning modules.

Copy Items from Courses Improvement

For the interest of School Level Support administrator roles, the copy workflow has been updated to make copying easier. Now, SLS users can copy from any course that they have access to, even if they’re not enrolled:

• Administrator Panel (Courses) > Courses > Copy Course
• Administrator Panel (Organisations) > Organisations > Copy Organisation

Known Issues

The upcoming December release will look to fix the known issue where content transfer between courses Disables Progress Tracking. The observed behaviour was that when copying content from a source course into the target course, the target course’s progress tracking would be switched to Off in the process. The fix will now help to ensure the expected behaviour that when content is copied from one course to another, the target course’s Progress Tracking settings will remain unchanged.

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