New Features Coming to Blackboard @ UVM

The Test Access Log allows instructors to see exactly what students clicked on in an exam. This provides a much clearer view into what happens during an assessment.  

The Retention Center provides an easy way for instructors to discover, track, and communicate with students in their course who are at risk. Here’s an example of what the retention center looks like.  

The Discussion Board tool has been redesigned for an improved experience. Here are a few of the new features:

• Instructors can require students to post to a discussion before seeing other students’ posts.
• Posts made by forum managers and moderators will contain the user’s course role and forum role.
• All of the posts in a thread will be visible at the same time on one page.
• When replying to a post, the content editor used to write a response appears on the same page, in the context of the discussion.

Here’s a video about the new Discussion Board interface.

This upgrade brings a complete replacement of the text (content) editor—the tool used for writing announcements, items, folder descriptions, etc.—and has many improved features! The new editor presents a simpler interface with a more consistent results. Here’s a sneak peak of the new Content Editor.