TDM 2.5 Release Notes




 
TDM 2.5 Release Notes

Date Published: Jul 27,2024 Category: Product:Blackboard_Learn_MH,TDM_SaaS,Blackboard_Learn_Software; Version:Learn_BU   Article No.: 000077896

Product: Learn SaaS

Release Date:



Information:

TDM 2.5 | Released August 29, 2023

Key Features

  • User Interface
    • Improved UI Features in Administrator Screens, including
      • Various tables (such as Instructor Management and Certificate Management) can be sorted by column.
      • A list of offerings available for each course has been added to the Course Management screen.
      • Search capability is now available for Management screens.
    • Catalog Tile and Search Improvements
      • Searching the catalog will search the name, categories, instructor name, and ID.
      • Course Tiles show the Name, Summary, and Instructor Profile Photos in a cleaner display.
  • Course media settings
    Offering media settings will now be inherited from the parent course unless they are overwritten.
  • Learner Enrollment
    • An email template for notifying learners that they have been enrolled in a managed enrollment course has been added.
    • Offering managers can specify email addresses to send notifications that learners have enrolled in a managed enrollment offering.
    • An email template for notifying specified people that learners have enrolled in a managed enrollment offering has been added.
  • Payment
    Administrators can access payment history to search for payments.

Various bug fixes and updates, including:

  • An issue with dates displaying incorrectly has been resolved.
  • A security patch.
  • The role picker works with over 100 roles with paginated data.
  • Text changes.
  • An update that resulted in changes to the TDM URL.


Recent Issues
Article Number Component Service Pack(s) Description Target Fix Release Patch Available
000089933 Blackboard Learn SaaS 3900.102.0, 3900.104.0, 3900.106.0 <div>In two Ultra Courses that have &#39;Use Attendance As A Mark&#39; set to Off, copying any content from either course to the other will set the value to On again in the Target recipient of the copied content. The Source Course value stays Off.</div> <div> </div> <div>This is unexpected as the instructors are turning it off on purpose and there does not seem to be any granular option to control if this value gets updated or not as part of the copy process.</div> <p> </p> SaaS-Fixed (v3900.106.0-rel.36 or higher)
000089872 Blackboard Learn MH, Blackboard Learn SaaS, Blackboard Learn Software 3900.100.0, 3900.102.0, 3900.104.0 The students&#39; &#39;Current Grade&#39; is incorrectly displayed as &quot;F&quot; in the Mobile App, regardless of the actual grade.<br><br>This issue only occurs when the Grade Schema is set to &#39;Letter Grade&#39;, whether all grades have been assigned or some are still pending. The grade always appears as &quot;F,&quot; regardless of the student&#39;s actual &#39;Current Grade&#39;. Fixed- Blackboard App_9.11
000090117 Blackboard Learn MH, Blackboard Learn SaaS, Blackboard Learn Software 3900.98.0, 3900.100.0, 3900.102.0, 3900.104.0, 3900.106.0, 3900.108.0 <p><span>In some very infrequent cases the file attachments in students&#39; submissions  end up lost in a child course which impede their downloading. </span></p> <p><span><span>There is evidence the issue affects multiple users in the same courses at once and then stops. </span></span></p> <p><span><span>The issue may happen in both Original and Ultra courses. </span></span></p> Future Reference
000090049 Blackboard Learn SaaS 3900.102.0, 3900.104.0, 3900.106.0 <p>The Announcement viewer count does not increase when the student accesses it via the email notification link.</p> SaaS-Fixed (v3900.104.0)
000077737 Blackboard Learn SaaS Ultra When configuring a SMTP server to send emails from a Blackboard Learn SaaS instance, the emails are sent without the SMTP authentication causing a few emails to be rejected.  SaaS-Fixed (v3900.108.0)
000089891 Blackboard Learn SaaS Ultra <p>When the Insert Content menu is opened in the Content Editor of an Enhanced document and the item that is on top of the line (that represents the option to add more items), the focus flickers making it challenging to select the &#39;Insert Content Menu&#39; option.<br><br>It affects every editor&#39;s menu.<br><br> </p> SaaS-Fixed (v3900.106.0)
000075071 Blackboard Learn SaaS 3900.100.0 The Enterprise Survey tool will appear under the Ultra Base Navigation Tools menu despite it being marked as unavailable at the system level. Will Not Fix No
000090016 Blackboard Learn SaaS 3900.104.0, 3900.106.0 <p>The feature that allows observers to access uploaded files and media and documents in their students&#39; courses is not working.</p> Working as Intended
000089854 Blackboard Learn SaaS 3900.100.0, 3900.102.0, 3900.104.0 When an instructor is grading Journal entries via the &quot;X to Grade&quot; interface, once a student has been graded, the arrows to move to the Next submission will become unresponsive for the first click, and the second click will move the user to the submission after the one that was intended. SaaS-Fixed (v3900.108.0)
000089918 Blackboard Learn SaaS 3900.102.0, 3900.104.0, 3900.106.0 <p>In an Ultra Course when a new announcement is added and a student enters that course for the first time and that announcement pops up, the listing of the Announcements has a full screen opaque white background. </p> SaaS-Fixed (v3900.108.0)
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Resolved Issues
Article Number Component Version: Description Target Fix Release
000087977 Blackboard Learn SaaS Blackboard Learn Users enrolled in a significant number of courses experience errors when accessing the Courses tab on the Learn mobile app. When a user with such enrollments attempts to load their courses, an error message is displayed instead of the expected list of courses. Fixed- Blackboard App_9.8
000055193 Blackboard Learn SaaS SaaS In Ultra courses, YouTube videos embedded in Document content items cannot be expanded to full screen in the Blackboard app on iPad.
000055459 Blackboard Learn SaaS SaaS Blackboard&#39;s Mobile apps do not support Group Discussions, so these Discussions do not appear in the apps. However, when Ultra Group Discussions are set to be graded, the Blackboard and Instructor apps show a red banner error on the main course page: &quot;There seems to be an issue on our side. Please try again later.&quot;
000060666 Blackboard Learn SaaS Ultra When instructors create announcements with multibyte characters in Ultra courses, the messages render unreadable text when using the Blackboard app on Android devices. Mobile App - Q4 2020
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