What's New in Learn Ultra

We are pleased to announce the delivery of a proctoring framework to allow proctoring providers to integrate their solutions with native Learn Ultra assessment flow. In the Ultra Experience and Ultra Course View, instructors can now drop grades inside categories for overall grade calculations.

This month's release is jam-packed with new features! It includes improvements for Peer Review and Peer Assessment, conditional availability to content by users and groups, the ability to disable notifications for users with high enrollments, Rich Text Editor improvements, and scripts to bulk download course archives.

This month's release features enhancements for EMAIL and SMS notification messages for all Users and an improved grading flow for Instructors using rubrics.

This update is short and sweet. We look into the New Tab Navigation for Blackboard Ultra Learn.

The new Rich text editor for Ultra has arrived, plus improved workflows for administrators like the building block self-service. 

With this release, Instructors are now equipped with additional tools to boost student engagement for example improvements to Ultra’s Rich text editor, feedback timing control, HTML/CSS code blocks, student list view and journals.

Academic effectiveness is vital to deliver engaging teaching and learning experiences. In this release instructors now can embed Office 365 documents into the rich text editor, display seconds in quiz timer and benefit from new improvements to the student list view and the overall grade column.

Building a more inclusive learning environment is vital for student success, so with this release the Ally tool can be used directly in Ultra Courses.

Helping instructors save time and reinforcing academic integrity are the key highlights of this release. Instructors can now create automated test question feedback, send course announcements via email, view grades using the student list view, create password protected assessments, and much more.

Enhancements to the text editor and Journals are two of the top reasons this release is worth checking out.

Administrators, you’re going to love the new support panel released this month. But we didn’t stop there. Read more about Learn's new system permissions, enhancements to course discussions, and more.

Journals are here! This month’s release also introduces further enhancements to discussions, assessment scoring and media embedding.

Announcing Bb Annotate! Your instructors are going to love Bb Annotate, our new tool for inline assignment grading. Just wait until they see all it can do.

Accommodations for global calendar variances, simpler content creation, and expanded group self-enrollment are just some the highlights of this new release.

The highly-requested Calculated formula question type for Ultra Courses is now available! Plus, this release is packed full of many small, but meaningful changes that will positively impact usability for all — administrators, instructors and students alike.

Your instructors will be especially thrilled to see the new enhancements to student groups introduced in this release. Improvements like these continue to help make teaching and learning better.

The ability for robust group work just got even better with this release as instructors are now able to create group sets and align them to discussions, tests, and assignments. Plus, you’ll like seeing the additional functionality added based on community feedback.