{"id":7897,"date":"2024-06-07T09:26:55","date_gmt":"2024-06-07T08:26:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/e-learning\/?p=7897"},"modified":"2024-09-02T10:49:14","modified_gmt":"2024-09-02T09:49:14","slug":"whats-new-in-blackboard-learn-ultra-june-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/e-learning\/2024\/06\/07\/whats-new-in-blackboard-learn-ultra-june-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s New in Blackboard Learn Ultra &#8211; June 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Printing for Assessments (Tests)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Instructors can now print assessments. Printing provides a convenient solution for a variety of use cases:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Accommodating students with specific needs or limited technology access&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Providing a printed assessment for testing in designated locations&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Backup and record keeping&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Conducting offline assessment&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Documentation and compliance&nbsp;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Maintaining security and integrity&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The print option is available in Forms, Tests, and Assignments with questions. Printing also provides the option to save as PDF.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To print an assessment, from <strong>Content and Settings<\/strong>, select <strong>Print<\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Note: Blackboard plan to support printing answer keys and question pools in upcoming releases.<\/em>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Image below: Print option from a test<\/em>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"673\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/e-learning\/files\/2024\/06\/Learn-93-Image-1-print-tests.jpg\" alt=\"Print option from a test\u00a0\" class=\"wp-image-7949\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Image below: Select desired print options<\/em>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"871\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/e-learning\/files\/2024\/06\/Learn-93-Image-2-Print-tests-_0.jpg\" alt=\"Select desired print options\u00a0\" class=\"wp-image-7950\" style=\"width:840px;height:auto\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Filter out graded responses when grading by question&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The <strong>Needs Grading<\/strong> filter now filters out graded student responses by default. Filtering this way helps instructors to focus on any remaining ungraded responses for a given question. It also provides instructors with an improved view of their outstanding grading workload. If instructors want to include graded responses, they can select <strong>Show graded responses<\/strong>. This selection preference is now stored per course and it persists across assessments in each course.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Image below: Grading by question option with the grading status of Needs Grading filter selected<\/em>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"643\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/e-learning\/files\/2024\/06\/Learn-93-Showgradedresponses.jpg\" alt=\"Grading by question option with the grading status of Needs Grading filter selected\u00a0\" class=\"wp-image-7951\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Image below: Grading by question view with the grading status filter of Needs Grading and Show graded responses options selected<\/em>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"642\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/e-learning\/files\/2024\/06\/Learn-93-Dontshow-gradedresponses.jpg\" alt=\"Grading by question view with the grading status filter of Needs Grading and Show graded responses options selected\u00a0\" class=\"wp-image-7952\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Post immediately when creating announcements&nbsp;<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Instructors can now post announcements as part of the drafting and editing processes. This makes the process of creating and posting announcements simpler.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instructors can still post from the announcements page.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Image below: When creating or editing an announcement, there is now an option to post<\/em>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"746\" data-id=\"7953\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/e-learning\/files\/2024\/06\/learn_ultra_instructor_Announcements_PostImmediately.jpg\" alt=\"When creating or editing an announcement, there is now an option to post\u00a0\" class=\"wp-image-7953\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Printing for Assessments (Tests) Instructors can now print assessments. Printing provides a convenient solution for a variety of use cases:&nbsp; The print option is available in Forms, Tests, and Assignments with questions. Printing also provides the option to save as PDF.&nbsp; To print an assessment, from Content and Settings, select Print.&nbsp; Note: Blackboard plan to [&hellip;]<\/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":[94,1198,186,924],"tags":[1118],"class_list":["post-7897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blackboard","category-montly-update","category-tests","category-ultra-blackboard","tag-blackboard-ultra"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9XLJV-23n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/e-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7897","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=7897"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/e-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7970,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/e-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7897\/revisions\/7970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/e-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/e-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.aber.ac.uk\/e-learning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}