Image below: Instructor view – image button on content editor for Announcements<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Grading large numbers of submissions without a way to organize them can be tedious. Now, instructors can apply various sorting options in flexible grading:<\/p>\n\n\n\n The grading interface stores the most recently used sorting option. If an instructor stops grading an assessment and resumes grading later, the last sorting option is applied.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Also, if sorting the submissions by last name or grading status, the chosen sorting option carries over into the grading interface.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Image below: Sorting options as shown from Students tab in flexible grading.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Instructors may want to set different due dates for each group working on a group assessment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the past, there was no way to assign varying due dates for each group working on a group assessment. Now, instructors can assign a unique due date to each group using the exceptions workflow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On the group assessment Submissions page, the instructor may add or edit exceptions for a group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Image below: Instructor view \u2013 add or edit exceptions option on the group assessment Submissions page.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n The Exceptions panel displays relevant information such as the assignment name and selected group name. This helps ensure the accuracy of an exception. Instructors can select a due date for the group using the date and time picker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Image below: Instructor view – exceptions panel.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Image below: Instructor view – group assessment Submissions page displays the exceptions indicator for Project Group 1.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n This month there are three improvements in Blackboard Learn Ultra that the Learning and Teaching Enhancement Unit would like to highlight for Instructors. Additional image insertion options Images enhance comprehension of and engagement with course content. Instructors and students want to use high-quality images in content and submissions. To help with this, a new image […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12811,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[94,178,924,1],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-7182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blackboard","category-interactive-tools","category-ultra-blackboard","category-uncategorised","tag-blackboard"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9XLJV-1RQ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/e-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/e-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/e-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/e-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12811"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/e-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7182"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/e-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7189,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/e-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7182\/revisions\/7189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/e-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/e-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/e-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/e-learning\/files\/2023\/12\/learn_ultra_instructor_AdditionalImageInsertionAndGenerateOptions_ImageButtonInContentEditorForAnnouncements-1024x328.png\")
<\/figure>\n\n\n\nFlexible grading \u2013 sorting control on students tab<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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