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Blackboard Instructor App End of Life (EoL)

Date Published: Sep 26,2022


CategoryProduct:Blackboard Learn SaaS; Version:Versions,SaaS
Article No.: 000076422
Description:
Mobile devices are a significant part of our lives. From staying in touch with family and friends across the globe to mobile banking, we expect to do almost anything from our mobile phones. For instructors, the same expectations apply to teaching and learning. The Blackboard Learn app provides instructors with a way to manage courses on a mobile device.

As outlined in our most recent roadmap, we consolidated our mobile applications to a single unified experience, both reducing the complexity of supporting multiple apps, and allowing the experiences of instructors and students to be consistent between desktop and mobile by increasing the reliance on Responsive Web Design (RWD). Moving to this approach of RWD for our mobile applications will mean that as features are released to the web experience of Learn Ultra they will also become available on the mobile experience.
 
As with many of our feature releases, we are taking a phased approach with this project providing incremental value along the way. Gaining insight from our clients on their experiences of Responsive Web Design has been critical in that decision-making approach. To that end we have recently undertaken a technical preview program of our current Blackboard Instructor app, whereby we have moved the mobile experience to leverage Responsive Web for Ultra courses and allowing the same experience on mobile as with the desktop experience. 
 
With the release of the unified app already complete in the early days of August we have moved to a single app to move forward. The instructor app will be removed from app stores on the 30th September. Full end of support and thus the consideration of the end of life (EoL) for the Instructor app is 30th September 2022. 


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Available Maintenance Release(s)

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Blackboard Learn 3900.114 Release 3900.114.0 Apr 24, 2025
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Blackboard Learn 9.1, 3900.108.0 Release 3900.108.0 Jan 09, 2025
Blackboard Learn 3900.106 Release 3900.106.0 Dec 19, 2024
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Article Number Component Service Pack(s) Description Target Fix Release Patch Available
000090815 Blackboard Learn SaaS 3900.112.0, 3900.114.0, 3900.116.0, 3900.118.0 <p><span style="font-size: 14px;">In Ultra tests, when a Jumbled Sentence question includes repeated answer options in the assigned text, those options appear multiple times in the dropdown list instead of being listed once.</span></p> 3900.118.0 Release
000090259 Blackboard Learn MH, Blackboard Learn SaaS, Blackboard Learn Software 3900.106.0, 3900.108.0, 3900.110.0, 3900.112.0 <p><span style="font-size: 14px;">Copying courses into disabled courses within the Student Information System (SIS) can inadvertently alter course content collection permissions.</span></p> 3900.121.0 Release
000090536 Blackboard Learn SaaS 3900.108.0, 3900.110.0, 3900.112.0, 3900.114.0, 3900.116.0 <p><span style="font-size: 14px;">The due date is causing an &#39;Oops Something went wrong&#39; error when an anonymous assignment with Grade Journey is saved after the due date has passed.</span></p> 3900.118.0 Release
000090826 Blackboard Learn SaaS 3900.116.0, 3900.118.0, 3900.121.0 <p><span style="font-size: 14px;">In Ultra view mode, when downloading the Course Activity report as a CSV file in courses with more than 3000 enrolled students, the downloaded file only includes data for the first 3000 students, omitting the rest.</span></p> Future Reference
000090600 Blackboard Learn MH, Blackboard Learn SaaS, Blackboard Learn Software 3900.104.0, 3900.106.0, 3900.108.0, 3900.110.0, 3900.112.0, 3900.114.0, 3900.116.0 <p><span style="font-size: 14px;">A specific URL containing four dots in its domain structure (e.g., <code>sub.sub.domain.example.com</code>) fails to open or load correctly within the iOS version of the mobile application. The same URL works without issues on:</span></p> <ol><li style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Android mobile app</span></li><li style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Mobile and desktop web browsers</span></li><li style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Desktop applications (if applicable)</span></li></ol> All
000077883 Blackboard Learn MH, Blackboard Learn SaaS, Blackboard Learn Software 3900.71.0, 3900.74.0, 3900.76.0, SaaS <p><span style="font-size: 14px;">In both Ultra and Original courses, when content has Release Conditions set (adaptative release in Original) based on performance and this performance is associated to a Calculated Column, the content is not released immediately after the condition is met. It takes between 3 to 5 minutes.</span></p> 3900.121.0 Release
000090622 Blackboard Learn SaaS 3900.112.0, 3900.114.0, 3900.116.0, 3900.118.0, 3900.121.0 <p><span style="font-size: 14px;">Plain text hyperlinks are not preserved correctly in Announcements and Messages when the link includes an ampersand (&amp;) character.</span></p> 3900.121.0 Release
000089877 Blackboard Learn SaaS 3900.100.0, 3900.102.0, 3900.104.0 <p><span style="font-size: 14px;">In Ultra Courses, categories are not displayed when creating a new course link using the Spanish Language Pack.</span></p> 3900.121.0 Release
000090260 Blackboard Learn SaaS 3900.106.0, 3900.108.0, 3900.110.0, 3900.112.0 <p><span style="font-size: 14px;">A permissions error is observed when attempting to use the Align with Goals functionality.  Without the system.learningstandards.VIEW privilege, it is not possible to align goals which is valid by design.  However the permissions error is presented to users with the Original Experience as a red banner error message. </span></p> 3900.121.0 Release
000090441 Blackboard Learn SaaS 3900.104.0, 3900.106.0, 3900.108.0, 3900.110.0, 3900.112.0, 3900.114.0 <p>Grade submissions within the discussion board are available, but the &#39;grade now&#39; link fails to load, presenting a blank screen when the student&#39;s role is changed.</p> 3900.121.0 Release

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