Want to know what the newest features are in Blackboard Learn Ultra? We’ll list the newest releases here each month and provide links to past releases for you to review. Click on the links to take a deeper dive into each feature.

April 2024 Release Highlights

  • Student feedback remains visible to students regardless of release condition settings
  • Default question points value changed from 10 to 1
  • Duplicate questions in Assessments, Forms, and Question Banks
  • Likert answer options expanded to include 4 and 6
  • Auto-submitted indicator in attempt logs
  • Anonymous posts for Discussions
  • Self-Enrollment Group reducing the maximum members per group from 2 to 1
  • The grading interface now displays a single grade pill
  • Attempt selector relocated to improve visibility and efficiency. It is now nearer to the attempt grade pill.

Instructors view displaying the relocated attempt selector next to the attempt grade pill 

  • Overriding the final grade is now an explicit grading option
  • Add question feedback when grading by student
  • Calculations changed from using BigDecimal to BigFraction in Gradebook
  • Overall Grade added to the Gradebook Download
  • Edit gradebook category for Partner Cloud content
  • Individual date adjustments from Batch Edit

The Batch Edit panel, showing an item's options expanded to show due dates

 

Past Release Notes

March 2024 Release Notes

February 2024 Release Notes

January 2024 Release Notes