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Ride The Wave – What’s New in
Blackboard
Wilmington University
Educational Technology Department’s Beach Party
August 5, 2014
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Current “New” Things to Know!May 2014 Upgrade
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Inline Grading
2. Grading with Rubrics
3. Adding Notes - The Add Notes button is a private area for instructor eyes only!
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Inline Grading
When Grading Assignments
1. The “Feedback” to student’s area now has a toggle switch.
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Discussion Board
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObKS6_DB_nI&index=9&list=PLontYaReEU1uivbr7MFnCcdSgLgELAkRP
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Grading Discussion Board
There is a much wider, blue sidebar area
To advance to the next student in Discussion Board, you must use the forward and back arrows
If you use Rubrics, click the Rubric square.
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Full Grade CenterIcon Changes
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Blackboard Collaborate Collaborate got a fresh coat of paint too. Must now install a ONE TIME LAUNCHER
Now, automatically in every course, there are three buttons in the Blackboard panel.
The first two buttons are available rooms for the course.
The third button allows the instructor to create additional meeting rooms.
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Test Options Instructor must select rules to set the release of test results and feedback.
If you want students to see feedback, you now have to select the "when", "what" and "types of feedback" you want available to them.
1. After submission - merely show score.
2. After end date, the system will now be set up for students to view all answers and feedback.
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Test OptionsDue Date and Late Submissions
Test Accommodations
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11SafeAssign, Viewing Reports
A. Body of Paper, Highligted text is text found to be matching.
B. Paper Information
C. Submission Details
D. Matching Percentage
E. Suspected Sources
F. Help, Print
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12New for Students- My Grades
For Possible Points to display in the My Grades tool for students, make sure your Total column is set to:
"Calculate as Running Total - NO"
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New for Students- Viewing Test Results and Feedback Students must now click the number under “Calculated
Grade” (it is a hyperlink to their test results page). If the feedback
options are chosen, students DO NOT click OK to view results. Click the score under Calculated Grade to view test results.
Click here to watch the video tutorial regarding method to view test results for students.
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“New” Things Down the Road!
January 2015
L@@K What’s Coming
in the Next Blackboard Upgrade!
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Student View = “Student Preview”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCrAQewg7Is#t=45
Clicking Student View, a “PreviewUser” shows up in Grade Center
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Anonymous & Delegated Grading
Current “Hide User Names” to enable anonymous grading
Student’s name is replaced by a unique identifier
The Reconcile Grades page allows an instructor to review provisional grades, feedback, and make a determination regarding the final grade.
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Significant Figures in Calculated Formula Test Questions
The correct answer to be calculated using the defined formula and variables, and the student’s response validated to award credit, has been improved to include calculation to significant figures.
In addition, we have improved our existing support for scientific/exponential notation.
The Test Canvas and the Item Analysis report have also been updated to include Significant Figures information.
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20SafeAssign is Integrated in regular Assignments
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SafeAssign is Integrated in regular Assignments
http://help.blackboard.com/en-us/Learn/9.1_2014_04/Instructor/100_Assignments/025_Use_SafeAssign/010_SafeAssign_Originality_Reports
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Multiple Attachments and Attempts
SafeAssign does not check the contents of the student’s current attempt against content from previous submissions.
If a student includes more than one attachment with an assignment, they are listed in the report.
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Changes to the My Grades Page – For Students
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24Single Course User Participation Report This report provides data necessary to substantiate a student’s academic
contribution within a single course. first name last name user ID, student batch ID system availability setting course ID, course batch ID submission time/date stamp
and count of submissions for attemptable item types within a course,
including: assignments, tests, discussion board posts, blogs, and journals.
The report data may then be downloaded and used by the institution to meet Federal Financial Aid reporting requirements.
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Achievements & Badges
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wr6DKgx4sH8&index=15&list=PLontYaReEU1uivbr7MFnCcdSgLgELAkRP
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26Portfolio Tool for assessing student learning Creating a Portfolio -user clicks the Create Portfolio button in
the My Portfolios sub-section. The first time that a user is presented with the new Portfolio
authoring canvas the system will present her with the option to view a brief guided tour.
The guided tour walks the user through the new authoring interface at a high level to orient the user to the new tools.
Personal Artifacts & Assignment Artifacts Assigned Portfolios. This new feature allows the instructor to
require a Portfolio as the submission in response to an Assignment in a Course.
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