Blackboard Learn 9.1 v3900.17.0 release (full version 3 3900.17.0-rel.43+eee598e) is now available. More information is available on Behind the Blackboard.
Running a pilot at your institution is one of the best ways to ensure a smooth and successful transition to Blackboard Learn™ 9.1. Not only will it help you test the software for your unique infrastructure, it will raise awareness and demand on campus, and help make your move to Blackboard Learn 9.1 as seamless as possible. Not sure where to start?
Blackboard Learn is Atlantic Cape's learning management system which is used by all courses. Your user name for Blackboard Learn is your 7-digit student ID number. If you do not know your student ID number, you can obtain this information in WebAdvisor by accessing "My Profile" under the "Students" section.
Blackboard Learn 9.1 Q2 2019. Administrators may need to allow an external script or third-party application to make direct calls to their Blackboard Learn instance’s REST API. Previously, these requests would be blocked at the browser level. In this release, we introduce a Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) tool to allow your institution ...
We've updated the design of the SafeAssign Originality Report in Blackboard Learn 9.1 environments. The new Originality Report uses Blackboard's Ultra design philosophy and includes some new information about a submission's overall risk for being copied from another source. This new report interface is also more responsive for mobile devices and more accessible to screen readers than the old design; we will be seeking VPAT compliance for this new design soon!
Instructors and students often use Blackboard Learn's calendars to keep track of events and due dates. The course calendar and modules are crucial to meeting deadlines and overall success. Increasing visibility into all required events and deadlines helps keep everyone on track.
Facilitation privileges have been long requested functionality in Blackboard Learn and we're pleased to include it in Q2 2019. For institutions that centrally manage course development and settings as distinct responsibilities from day-to-day teaching tasks, the course role permissions are more granular in this release. The privileges enable roles that can teach, engage, and grade, but not to modify materials or settings. There is also a new default course role called Facilitator. As with other default course roles, the specific permissions can be edited.
With the release of Blackboard Learn Q2 2019, Blackboard is deprecating our SOAP APIs. We recommend that if you use Blackboard's SOAP APIs as an external application or as part of a Building Block, you should immediately refactor your integration using our Blackboard REST APIs.
Predict uses longitudinal analysis of Learn and Student Information System data with predictive analytic algorithms to help educators, advisors, coaches and tutors to identify students at risk and intervene. If licensed and configured, Blackboard Learn administrators can enable the tools in the admin panel tools management area; the options will appear in all environments.
Blackboard Ally: A solution for better accessibility 1 Ally presents instructors and content authors with an accessibility score and coaches users in ways to improve the accessibility of materials. 2 Ally creates and presents students with automatically-generated alternative versions of uploaded files and creating accessible HTML, digital braille, and audio format files. 3 Ally allows administrators to see accessibility scores of materials across courses and track changes over time to plan, measure, and improve accessibility.
Ally is an additional, optional service for improving the accessibility of content and can now be integrated into Blackboard Learn. In this release, Ally improves accessibility within Blackboard Learn in the following ways.
In courses using the Learn 2016 theme, the discussion board is responsive for hand-held devices if the contents of the posts themselves are responsive. Discussion participants can read, respond, and use other discussion features such as post rating from mobile devices.
Reports and visualizations available in Analytics for Learn are delivered via third party business intelligence tools from Blackboard partners, specifically Microsoft (Reporting Services) for embedded reports and Pyramid (Pyramid BI Office) for dashboard building. These products have their own commitments to browser support, and so the details below are subject to change based on product decisions made by our partners.
WebRTC isn’t presently supported on these browsers, so the Create Recording feature will not work on these browsers. Both Microsoft and Apple have expressed they intend to support this standard in the future, in both Edge and Safari, respectively. These browsers can play back recordings created by the feature without issue.
Blackboard Learn is critical to our vision of growth and is one of the catalysts of change needed to meet our aggressive goals.
You’re the expert. We’re just here to help by offering the flexible features and tools that support your teaching approach. With Blackboard Learn’s pedagogy-first mindset, instructors will find it easier to build courses and incorporate the right tools at the right place—in a way that best engages students and optimizes the user experience.
We get it. You need to know that this change will be quick, smooth and painless—because that’s what your users deserve.