Elevate Your Campus Experience: Accessibility, Distributive Permissions, and Custom Report Builder
Blackboard Evaluate keeps evolving to meet the needs of campuses, administrators, and faculty. The latest enhancements focus on accessibility, flexible permissions, and powerful reporting, giving users more control, inclusivity, and insight than ever before. These features are designed to empower campuses, simplify workflows, and deliver actionable insights, making Evaluate an indispensable tool for academic institutions.
1. Navigate with Confidence: Accessibility at Every Step
Evaluate is built with accessibility and inclusivity at its core, ensuring that every user, regardless of ability, can navigate the platform with confidence. From faculty reviewing course evaluations to administrators managing reports, everyone can access content efficiently thanks to features designed for universal usability.
Why it matters:
- Makes the platform easy to navigate for all users.
- Supports faculty and staff with diverse accessibility needs, enabling them to focus on insights, not interface hurdles.
- Enhances compliance with accessibility standards while delivering a smooth and intuitive experience.
How it works:
Pages are structured with headings, regions, and landmarks recognized by assistive technologies such as JAWS, NVDA, and VoiceOver, giving users immediate clarity on where they are and where to go next. This thoughtful design ensures that everyone can interact with content quickly and confidently, making Evaluate more inclusive and user-friendly than ever. Learn more about accessibility in Evaluate.
2. Total Control, Tailored Access: Distributive Permissions
Evaluate now offers flexible, granular permissions system-wide, providing campuses with the ability to customize access for individuals and groups according to their roles and responsibilities. Whether it’s department chairs accessing specific course evaluations or administrators assigning reporting capabilities, permissions can be tailored to match the institution’s needs perfectly.
Why it matters:
- Empowers campuses to delegate responsibilities responsibly, without compromising security.
- Provides customized report access, ensuring that the right users can see the right data at the right time.
- Supports department chairs, faculty, and staff in performing their roles efficiently while maintaining a secure, organized environment.
How it works:
Permissions are organized into three main areas:
- Data Management – limited access to administrative setup features, such as accounts and course management.
- Evaluation – access to question sets, objectives, and communications tools.
- Reporting – ability to monitor feedback rates and generate custom analytics reports.
By enabling precise control over user access, Evaluate ensures that each campus can streamline administration, maintain data security, and empower faculty and staff to work confidently within their roles. Learn more about distributed permissions on the help site and support portal.
3. Actionable Insights Made Easy: Custom Report Builder
The Custom Report Builder transforms evaluation data into actionable insights. Faculty and administrators can create tailored reports that focus on the metrics that matter most to their institution, department, or individual courses, making it easier than ever to understand trends and drive improvements in teaching and learning outcomes.
Why it matters:
- Saves time by allowing users to focus on the data that matters most.
- Enhances decision-making with flexible, visualized insights that can be shared across the institution.
- Empowers faculty to compare results and improve teaching effectiveness through meaningful, data-driven insights.
How it works:
Users select specific data points, filters, and visualizations to generate reports aligned with their goals. The platform supports multiple levels of detail, enabling granular analysis across courses, units, and disciplines, so insights are always relevant, actionable, and easy to interpret. By putting the Custom Report Builder directly in the hands of faculty and administrators, Evaluate ensures that campuses can leverage data to drive meaningful improvements and make informed decisions with confidence. Learn more about the custom report builder.
Thanks to these latest enhancements, Evaluate empowers campuses to streamline administration, enhance faculty effectiveness, and turn evaluation data into actionable insights. Going beyond basic needs, it unlocks the full potential of evaluation data, helping institutions create a smarter, more inclusive, and more effective academic environment.