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Blackboard Learn 3900.69 Release

Date Published: Apr 11,2025

CategoryPlanned First Fix Release:3900.69.0 Release; Product:Blackboard Learn SaaS; Version:SaaS
Article No.: 000077691

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Assessment and Grading

Formative label and Gradebook filter
Blackboard Learn SaaS
Ultra Experience
Ultra Course View
Impact: Instructors, Students

Formative assessment is an essential component of the teaching and learning process. Formative assessment provides ongoing feedback to both instructors and students. Its primary value is that it informs and shapes instruction, guides learning, and supports student progress.

You, our clients, shared in the Idea Exchange an idea to have a way to identify formative assessments more easily. When work on this feature began, it was the number one idea in the formative assessment area. Now instructors can apply a formative label to assessments.

When selected, this label serves as an indicator and appears to instructors in the following areas:

Course Content page - on assessments set as formative
Test and Assignment settings
Gradebook list and grid views
Student Overview
Student Activity Overview

Instructors may choose to display this label to students. This helps to inform students that an assessment is formative in its purpose. When displayed to students, the label appears in these areas:

Course Content page - on assessments set as formative
Assessment panel before starting an attempt
Assessment Details & Information panel during and after an assessment
Assessment header when viewing a submission
Gradebook

In the Gradebook grid view, instructors can filter assessments by formative or summative type. Formative assessments are those with the formative setting selected. Summative assessments are those that do not have the formative setting selected.

For administrators: This feature is available for all Ultra courses. There are no configurations needed.

Partial and negative credit improvements for the Multiple Choice / Multiple Select question type
Blackboard Learn SaaS
Ultra Experience
Ultra Course View
Impact: Instructors

Multiple Choice and Multiple Answer questions are graded automatically. Answers are scored based on the instructor selected scoring option.

In the past, instructors could select from the following scoring options:

All or nothing. A student must select all the correct answer choices to receive credit. If a student selects one or more incorrect answer choices, they earn no points.
Allow partial credit. A student receives partial credit if they correctly answer part of the question.
Subtract points for incorrect answers. A student will have points subtracted for incorrect answer choices. This option discourages guessing. The overall question score is not less than zero.
With the partial credit and subtract points options, all answer choices were equally weighted. Instructors were unable to control how much partial and negative credit is awarded for each correct and incorrect answer.

To provide instructors with more control we have made some changes. Now instructors can turn on partial and negative credit. This option allows instructors to:

Define a positive percentage value to award credit for a correct answer(s)
Enter a negative percentage value to subtract for an incorrect answer(s)
Allow a negative overall score for the question

For administrators: This feature is available for all Ultra courses. There are no configurations needed.

Tab navigation for Assessments
Blackboard Learn SaaS
Ultra Experience
Ultra Course View
Impact: Instructors

We have simplified the navigation for Assessments. Instructors now have convenient access to different sections using tabs:

Content and Settings
Submissions
Student Activity
Question Analysis

This improvement is designed to optimize instructor efficiency. It provides a more streamlined assessment management experience for instructors.

For administrators: This feature is available for all Ultra courses. There are no configurations needed.

Add exceptions for anonymously graded assessments
Blackboard Learn SaaS
Ultra Experience
Ultra Course View
Impact: Instructors

We all live complicated lives and special circumstances often arise. When this happens, instructors may need to grant an exception to a student for specific tests or assignments. These exceptions may include the following:

Granting additional attempts
Rescheduling submission deadlines
Allowing extended access

Now instructors can grant student exemptions for anonymously graded assessments. Instructors can access the exceptions options for all assessments from the Student Overview page in the gradebook.

For administrators: This feature is available for all Ultra courses. There are no configurations needed.

Add exceptions for anonymously graded assessments
Blackboard Learn SaaS
Ultra Experience
Ultra Course View
Impact: Instructors

We all live complicated lives and special circumstances often arise. When this happens, instructors may need to grant an exception to a student for specific tests or assignments. These exceptions may include the following:

Granting additional attempts
Rescheduling submission deadlines
Allowing extended access

Now instructors can grant student exemptions for anonymously graded assessments. Instructors can access the exceptions options for all assessments from the Student Overview page in the gradebook.

For administrators: This feature is available for all Ultra courses. There are no configurations needed.

Exceptions panel updates
Blackboard Learn SaaS
Ultra Experience
Ultra Course View
Impact: Instructors

Exceptions are important for supporting students who experience unforeseen situations. Instructors can:

Grant additional attempts
Reschedule submission deadlines
Allow extended access

We've updated the exceptions panel to display more information. The exceptions panel now features course, assessment, and student names. This improvement helps instructors to ensure the accuracy of the exception.

For administrators: This feature is available for all Ultra courses. There are no configurations needed.

Complete/incomplete grade schema
Blackboard Learn SaaS
Ultra Experience
Ultra Course View
Impact: Instructors, Students

The complete/incomplete grade schema is now available for the Ultra Course View. This grade schema helps to shift the focus from points earned to student effort and completion of tasks. It offers a more holistic approach to assessing student progress.

Instructors can select the schema in the settings panel from the Grade using section. When a grade is assigned, a checkmark is displayed on that item for the student in the gradebook. An incomplete is displayed as a dash in a grey-colored pill.

Assessments that use automatic zeros and the complete/incomplete will mark non-submitting students as incomplete.

For administrators: This feature is available for all Ultra courses. There are no configurations needed.

Delete Grade Schemas
Blackboard Learn SaaS
Ultra Experience
Ultra Course View
Impact: Instructors

In the past, instructors could only create and edit grade schemas. Now, instructors can also delete grade schemas that are not used in the course. The option to delete helps instructors maintain the grade schema list.

A Delete button now appears on schemas that are not in use. Schemas that are in use will only display the option to copy.

For administrators: This feature is available for all Ultra courses. There are no configurations needed.

Send reminders to non-submitters for anonymously graded assessments
Blackboard Learn SaaS
Ultra Experience
Ultra Course View
Impact: Instructors, Students

During an assessment, instructors may need to communicate with students. To support this need, instructors can filter and select the students they would like to message from the Submissions page. Instructors can craft a message appropriate to the audience and circumstances.

In the past, the instructors couldn't message students for assessments that are anonymously graded. This is because instructors do not know which students had submitted.

Now we have introduced a Send Reminder option. This allows instructors to send reminders to students who have yet to make a submission for an anonymously graded assessment.

With the "Send Reminder" button on the Submissions page for anonymously graded assessments, instructors have the chance to confirm their desire to send the reminder along with the number of students who will receive it.

For administrators: This feature is available for all Ultra courses. There are no configurations needed.

Start, Continue, and View Assessment options and file submission update
Blackboard Learn SaaS
Ultra Experience
Ultra Course View
Impact: Students

To increase clarity for students before they begin an assessment, we have made changes to the user interface. In the past, when a student selected an assessment, the Details & Information panel included an option labeled View assessment. Now this option is labeled as Start attempt. Additionally, the button displays different states based on the student's progress:

If the student is eligible to make a new attempt, the button displays Start attempt alongside the next attempt number.

If the student has saved a draft, the button displays Continue attempt along with the current attempt number.

Once the student has exhausted all possible attempts, the button displays View submissions. This indicates that students can review their completed submissions.

These modifications aim to provide a more intuitive and informative experience for students. These changes ensure that students have a clear understanding of their progress and available options throughout the assessment process.

To clarify how a student can attach files or add content to their submissions, we have updated the instructions in the Submission section. The instructions now read as follows: Drag and drop files here or select (click) to add text.

For administrators: This feature is available for all Ultra courses. There are no configurations needed.

Richer Course and Content

Progress Tracking and Start / Continue / Completed options for Learning Modules
Blackboard Learn SaaS
Ultra Experience
Ultra Course View
Impact: Students

Progress Tracking provides students with clear visibility of their progress throughout a course. In the past, students would need to expand the module to view progress for the contents of a Learning Module. To save time and provide greater clarity, a progress summary for Learning Modules is now displayed at the top level.

Hovering over the progress bar informs the student of how much content they have completed, started or yet to start.

Now there is an option for students to 'Start' or 'Continue' progress in a Learning Module with a single selection. This option is dynamic based on the student's progress in the Learning Module. Selecting the option takes the student to the first item, or next incomplete item. Students no longer need to expand the Learning Module to browse the content items.

When a student progresses through the contents or otherwise marks content as complete, the Learning Module displays a 'Completed' status. This provides a clear sign to the student that they have completed that module. If an instructor adds content to the Learning Module or the student marks the work from completed to started, the progress bar updates accordingly. The button text reflects the status change as 'Continue.' This reminds the student to re-engage with the content.

For administrators: Please note that the system administrator must enable progress tracking at the institution, node, or course level for these updates to display to students.

Resizing media
Blackboard Learn SaaS
Ultra Experience
Ultra Course View
Impact: Students

Instructors often strive to include media in their course design to help create an engaging course. Students may desire to include media in their discussions or assessment responses. When inserting media, users expect an easy way to control the size of the included media. In the past, this wasn't easy to do. Users would have to size media before uploading it in the course.

Now media items have handles in each corner. Users can resize the media by dragging a corner handle. Users can also resize media via keyboard navigation. Media types available for resizing include images, videos, and media inserted via URL.

This enhancement provides users with a seamless and intuitive way to resize media.

Based on client feedback, we made several additional changes:

We removed the gray background of the media
We relocated the delete icon to the top right corner of the media
All media attached or inserted via URL maintains aspect ratio
All media has center alignment (future milestones will permit other justification options)
The maximum size of the media (100%) is the maximum width allowed by the content editor
The minimum size limit for all media is 200 pixels
We redesigned Image Settings to include the alternative text box and an option to force users to download the media
When inserting a video in edit mode, a new icon displays in the top right corner to play the video from edit mode; this icon appears regardless of how media is inserted

Resizing media is not supported on mobile devices.

For administrators: This feature is available for all Ultra courses. There are no configurations needed.

File deletion in the course also removes the file from the Content Collection
Blackboard Learn SaaS
Ultra Experience
Ultra Course View
Impact: Instructors

The Content Collection is a valuable tool for organizing files and to support content reuse. In the past, if an instructor deleted a file from an Ultra course, the file remained in the Content Collection. This was the case even if the file was not used in other courses. Removing this file required additional steps from the instructor and was often overlooked.

Now, when a file is deleted from the course, it is also deleted from the Content Collection when it is not used in other courses or another place in the same course. This workflow simplifies file management and helps with responsible use of storage space.

For administrators: This feature is available for all Ultra courses. There are no configurations needed.

Data & Analytics

System administrators not enrolled in a course can access Course Activity and Student Activity Details reports
Blackboard Learn SaaS
Ultra Experience
Ultra Course View
Impact: Administrators

In the past, system administrators not enrolled in a course could not access the Course Activity and Student Activity Details reports. To access the reports, administrators would have to enroll in the course. This extra step was cumbersome and problematic. Now system administrators who are not enrolled in a course can see these reports.

System administrators can now better inform instructors about these reports, answer instructors' questions, and troubleshoot user issues.

For administrators:
To view the Course Activity and Student Activity Details reports the user’s role need to have the following entitlements:

Course/Organization Control Panel (Grade Center) > View Grades
Course/Organization Control Panel (Grade Center) > All Grading
Course/Organization Control Panel (Grade Center) > Full Control

Mobile App

Improvements to the Grades landing page
Blackboard Learn SaaS, Blackboard Learn 9.1
Ultra and Original Experience
Impact: All users

Mobile app users can now select the sorting criteria for their grades. Users can sort grades as follows:

course order
last activity (most recent grade posted)
due date (latest or oldest first)

These sort options allow users to customize the Grades landing page to suit their preferences.

For administrators: This feature is available for all users of the Mobile App. No action is needed from users who have enabled automatic updates on their devices. Users who have disabled automatic updates on their devices must download the update.

Integration, Extension, and Management

Manage Messages at institutional level
Blackboard Learn SaaS
Ultra Experience
Ultra Course View, Original Course View
Impact: All users

Institutions often have policies about how students communicate with others in their courses. To support institutional policy, system administrators can now manage Messages tool visibility. When Base Navigation is enabled, this level of control is available for both the Ultra and Original experiences at the institution and node levels.

Administrators can define Messages visibility for both courses and organizations. Messages are not displayed on the Ultra Base Navigation when it is hidden at institutional level. If an institution has different configurations at node level, Messages will display on the Ultra Base Navigation according to the Messages policy applied for each course. The Course Messages option does not display for courses where the Messages tool is off.

If the Messages tool is off, users may still send messages as emails using the Messages icons. This gives instructors the ability to easily communicate with students from contextual locations in their Ultra courses. It also allows students to connect with their instructor. The following are behaviors in Ultra courses when the Messages tool is off:

The message will be sent as an email. Recipients must have an email configured in their profiles.
The sender will receive a copy of the message as an email.
Replies aren't allowed.
Instructors can edit recipients.
Students are not allowed to edit recipients and only can send messages to instructors.
There are no changes to attachments.
Daily notifications will not include information about a new message created from courses where the Messages tool is off.

For administrators: Administrators can configure the Messages availability at the institutional level from the Administrator Tool Panel. Configurations at node level are always allowed and the Scope of Change is for ALL courses (new and existing ones). In a future release we will support additional configuration options.

Manage Course Duration in Course Settings Panel
Blackboard Learn SaaS
Ultra Experience
Ultra Course View
Impact: Instructors, users with privileges

Students are always allowed to access some courses. Other courses have restrictions so students can only access them for a specific time. This is determined by course duration settings. In the past, only administrators or a data integration process could manage the course duration settings for Ultra courses. Even when instructors had the correct privileges, they couldn’t manage this themselves.

Now, course users with the correct privileges can modify the course duration settings for their Ultra courses.

A new Course Settings option appears at the top of an Ultra course if the user has privileges to view or manage settings. The course duration settings are managed here. The course duration can be set to the following:

Ongoing – no access restriction
Restrict by Dates—set dates and times for student access to begin, end, or both
Restrict by number of days from enrollment
Restricted by the start and end dates of the associated Term - this option only appears when a Term is defined for the course

You can also manage the Roster tool availability in this panel if allowed. Instructors can continue to manage student access to the Roster tool in the Roster panel itself. In future releases, we’ll move more settings to the Course Settings panel.

For administrators: This feature is available for all Ultra courses. Users must have appropriate System Role or Course Role privileges to manage course duration and the Roster tool. The Roster tool can only be managed in a course if allowed by settings in the Administrator Panel > Tools.

Privilege to access the Course Settings panel: Course/Organization Control Panel (Customization) > Properties
Privilege to modify the Course Duration: Course/Organization Control Panel (Customization) > Properties, Duration
Privilege to modify student access to the Roster tool: Course/Organization Control Panel (Customization) > Properties Tool Availability

Self-enroll for Ultra Courses and Organizations
Blackboard Learn SaaS
Ultra Experience
Ultra Base Navigation
Impact: All users

In the past, the course and organization catalogs only showed Original courses and Original organizations. We’ve updated both catalogs so they also display Ultra courses and Ultra organizations.

As with Original courses and organizations, Ultra courses and organizations must be associated with the catalog in the administrator panel or through data integration processes. The self-enrollment setting for Ultra courses and organizations must be managed in the administrator panel or through data integration. At this time, instructors can’t enable self-enrollment in Ultra courses and Organizations.

For administrators: Administrators must manage catalog associations and self-enrollment settings for Ultra courses and organizations to use these features. To define the catalog structure, admins must define categories. For courses to display in the catalog, they must be associated with those categories.

Import Instructure Canvas course packages
Blackboard Learn SaaS
Ultra Experience, Original Experience
Ultra Course View, Original Course View
Impact: Instructors, Administrators

An instructor may move between institutions or teach at more than one place. That could mean the instructor has course packages they built in Instructure Canvas. Some institutions adopting Blackboard Learn Ultra are moving over from Canvas.

Now instructors and administrators can import Canvas packages directly in Learn courses. This can save significant time preparing a course for teaching in Learn. Canvas packages can be imported into either Learn Original or Learn Ultra courses by users with course import privileges.

All course import and restore workflows support Canvas packages:

Course import in an Ultra course
Course import in an Original course
Administrator course import
Administrator course restore—only course contents will be imported with this action, user data is not restored

Canvas exports courses in a proprietary format. This proprietary format shares elements with the interoperable standard Common Cartridge. For example, both have the file extension .imscc. When importing a package with this file extension, Learn will automatically determine if a package should be processed as a Common Cartridge package or a proprietary Canvas package.

Note: Course structure and tools differ between Canvas and Learn. After import, instructors or course designers should review all contents and settings. This is to adjust the content so is suited for use in Learn. Not all course elements are converted.

For administrators: This feature is available only in Learn SaaS environments. It works with both Original and Ultra courses. There are no configurations needed, but only users with privileges to import course packages can use the feature. If you need to convert many courses in bulk, Anthology Product Support can assist with this request. Due to a dependency on a web service, the feature will start to function a few days after release.

Instructure and Canvas are registered trademarks of Instructure, Inc.

REST APIs to read Rubrics Evaluations
Blackboard Learn SaaS, Blackboard Learn 9.1
Ultra Experience, Original Experience
Ultra Course View, Original Course View
Impact: Administrators

With the Rubric Evaluations Public API, users can now retrieve comprehensive data on student attempts that were graded using a rubric. The Rubric Evaluations Public API includes three new GET endpoints:

Retrieve Rubric Evaluations from a Student Attempt: This endpoint allows users to retrieve detailed rubric evaluations from a specific student attempt.
Retrieve All Rubric Evaluations from a Rubric Association: This endpoint provides users with the ability to retrieve all rubric evaluations associated with a particular rubric.
Retrieve a Single Rubric Evaluation with Cell Expansion: This endpoint enables users to retrieve a single rubric evaluation while having the flexibility to expand its cells.

This new API showcases our commitment to empowering educators and institutions with advanced assessment capabilities.

For administrators: The REST integration user must have the entitlement “Course/Organization Control Panel (Grade Center) > Full Control” to make use of the new endpoints.

LTI admin launches from Books and Tools, Content Market
Blackboard Learn SaaS
Ultra Experience
Ultra Course View
Impact: Administrators, other support users

Administrators and other support users access courses without being enrolled. Sometimes they need to access 3rd-party content integrated using LTI, the Learning Tools Interoperability standard. In the past, admins could launch LTI links in the Course Outline of Ultra courses. Admins couldn’t access LTI links in other areas of the course. Now, administrators can access and launch LTI tools in the following additional areas:

The Books and Tools panel
The Content Market

This change will make it easier for admins to support courses when they are not an enrolled course member.

For administrators: This feature is available for all Ultra courses. There are no configurations needed. For these LTI link launches, Learn will send the role of “administrator” for both the LTI context and institution roles. A tool must be compliant with this aspect of the standard for the launch to work.

LTI Tool Dynamic Registration
Blackboard Learn SaaS, Blackboard Learn 9.1
Ultra Experience, Original Experience
Impact: Administrators

LTI Advantage, including LTI 1.3, is a standard for integrating tools into learning environments. This standard from 1EdTech is based on the highly secure three-legged OAuth2 method. This security method requires a secured key registration process and supports key rotation. For Blackboard Learn, this key registration and rotation procedure is managed in the Anthology Developer Portal.

Tool providers can register their applications in the Developer Portal so that clients don’t have to. This lets the tool provider define things like icons and tool placements in Blackboard Learn, saving administrators time. This is Anthology’s preferred LTI tool adoption workflow because it reduces the burden on administrators.

Some tool providers require adopting clients to register applications themselves and manually configure all aspects of the tool in both the Anthology Developer Portal and in Blackboard Learn. This is usually because they don’t support multiple deployments for a single application as they are defined in the LTI specification. There are many steps to this registration process.

Recently the LTI standards committee defined a new service called LTI Dynamic Registration. This helps tools and learning platforms simplify the registration process in an interoperable way. The Anthology Developer Portal now supports this standard. For tools that support this standard but require administrators to register the application themselves, this will reduce the number of steps to configure the LTI tool.

Learn administrators given a registration URL should add the application in the Developer Portal using the Dynamic Registration option. After this step, the administrator should complete any other steps as required by the tool provider.

Improved flattening logic
Blackboard Learn SaaS
Ultra Experience
Ultra Course View
Impact: Instructors

Items can move when copied, imported, or converted into Ultra courses. We call this the flattening process. The process moves items with a depth greater than two to the lowest supported level in Ultra courses. For institutions that have opted in to a third level of depth, items with a depth greater than three move to the lowest supported level. We received feedback from instructors calling for improvements to this process.

One issue was that items were not retained in their parent folder. As a result, a course could have many empty folders at the lowest supported level. The items that used to be in those folders would also be at the lowest supported level. This made it difficult for instructors to understand where items used to be. They had to spend a lot of time finding and moving items.

The second issue was with Learning Modules. Learning Modules could become nested inside other Learning Modules or Folders. Nested Learning Modules are not supported in Ultra courses. These nested Learning Modules set the wrong expectation for new users. This also broke the user interface.

With this update, we implemented new logic:

Learning Modules are always brought to the highest level on the Course Content page.
Folders are now brought to the highest level necessary to ensure that child items don't move.

This change should help instructors organize their moved content.

For administrators: This feature is available for all Ultra courses. There are no configurations needed.

Highlights:

Maintenance Fixes

You can view maintenance items for 3900.69 on Behind the Blackboard. Our Known Issue articles provide information for individual bug fixes, and may include bug descriptions and which Learn versions were affected. You can filter bug fixes by SaaS release for easier navigation. Here are highlights of issues fixed in this release:

Alt Text Field in Brand Settings is Being Included in Activity Stream Subject Announcements- Article #77469
Announcements Scheduled After the Daylight Saving Time (DST) Change Set to Wrong Time- Article #77404
Automatic Zeros are not Being Assigned to all Items of the Gradebook- Article #76541
Create Organization Link String is Missing in Language Pack- Article #77355
Delegated Grader Cannot Submit Grades If First Grader Graded With Large Amount of Characters in Comments- Article #76568
Deleted Columns in Original Courses are Missing When the Grade History Report is DownloadedEdit Title- Article #77508
Disabled Enrollments Show Dropdown Menu Options Incorrectly- Article #77250
Edit Hostname Fails with French Language Pack- Article #77534
Embedded LTI Links/Deep Links are not Generating a Unique ID- Article #76567
Error "Media isn't supported from this URL" Received when Trying to add Media from a Media Partner- Article #77484
File With Long Multibyte Characters Name Cannot be Downloaded- Article #77013
Group Journals Default to Visible to all Students in the Course- Article #77367
The Answer's Text Overlaps its Checkbox when Japanese or Korean Languages are Used- Article #77544
Instructor Gets Redirected to Default View After Grading an Attempt in Smart View- Article #77364
Beginning of Course Name is Cut Off When Using Long Names- Article #77596
In the Blackboard App, Students Cannot Access Attempts and Feedback for Graded Assignments, Discussions, and Tests that are Unavailable or Hidden- Article #62744
Math ML Formula isn't Recognized in Calculated Formula Question- Article #77270
Viewing Due Dates In Course Differs From Due Dates in Global Navigation for Blackboard App- Article #75556
Course Links do not Load from an Ultra Module- Article #77373
Numbers of Points and Percentages out of Alignment when Viewing Point or Percent Rubrics in List View- Article #77463
After Copying a Peer Assessment Into the Same Course and Folder an Error Occurs- Article #76325
Password Reset Max-Length-Requirement not Actually Enforced- Article #77478
Portfolio Submission Fails if Size of Selected Portfolio is More than Maximum File Size Set on System Admin Level- Article #76595
Ultra courses shifting or resizing partner content- Article #77245
Recently Visited Courses List is Not Updating- Article #77343
Reordering of Enterprise Survey Answers is not Reflected in the Analyze Results Report- Article #77400
Ultra Rubric Points and Feedback not Visible if the Grade is Overridden- Article #77472
Select Portfolio Template Options List is Displayed for an Assessment That is Marked as an Individual Submission- Article #77657
Student Preview Menu Disappears in Portrait Display Settings- Article #77490
In Ultra Courses Student Preview Fails After Deleting Content Previously Accessed- Article #77539
Students see the 'Analytics' tab in Ultra courses- Article #77456
Using the 'Login As' Feature With Certain Language Packs Throws Hexadecimal Values- Article #77437
In Ultra the Reused Answer in Matching Questions Cannot be Removed with the (x) Button- Article #77609
In Ultra the Total Grade Denominator Disappears When Viewing Grades in the Mobile View of Browser- Article #77519
Turn it in LTI Tool Icon is Moving in the Gradebook- Article #77186
Safari and Voiceover do not Support Dialog Boxes in Original Course View- Article #77227
Unable to Update Favicon in Learn SaaS with Ultra Experience Enabled- Article #77331
Unsupported (*) Course Tools Appear in the RTE Content Market Menu After Reloading It- Article #77500
In an Ultra Course User With 'Grader Course' Role Cannot Open an LTI Item From a Hidden Folder to Students- Article #77305
In Ultra the Username is not Visible to Any Staff Roles on the Student Information Page in the Grade Center- Article #77371
Importing QTI Packages Causes the Questions' Internal Order to be Lost- Article #76453
When Ordering Questions That have Partial Credit Attempts With Wrong Answers Will Display the Points Earned as as 0.00001 Less- Article #77202
Wrong Word in the Dutch Ultra Locale Language Pack- Article #77263
Instructors or Administrators Cannot Navigate Through Ultra Courses When the Groups Tool is Disabled at System Level- Article #77514
Assessment Content is Blank When a Proctored Exam is Launched From the Ultra Navigation Calendar- Article #77422
Course Catalog Does not Recognize Ultra Courses When Browsing per Categories or Term- Article #77740
Messages Tool not Hidden When User is Enrolled in One or More Original Courses- Article #77706

Upgrade Paths:

Update to client Production environments (Published July 27, 2023):
An updated version of 3900.69.0 (full release number: 3900.69.0-rel.35+f94c281) is being applied to client Production servers on Thursday, July 27, 2023. This update is an Ultra UI only change, so the build number did not increase.

Updates in this version include:

In some cases, the validation for Multiple Choice questions with partial/negative credit is not valid even if the total is 100%. For example, when an instructor adds a multiple choice question with partial credit enabled and adds 11 answers, assigning a partial credit score of 9.1% to ten answers and 9% to one answer throws a validation popup while saving the question.

We have resolved this issue.

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Update to client Production environments (Published July 20, 2023):
An updated version of 3900.69.0 (full release number: 3900.69.0-rel.35+f94c281) is being applied to client Production servers on Thursday, July 20, 2023.

Updates in this version include:

The Group Set Link is not Working for Instructors and Administrators- Article #77710

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Update to client Production environments (Published July 13, 2023):
An updated version of 3900.69.0 (full release number: 3900.69.0-rel.32+d156208) is being applied to client Production servers on Thursday, July 13, 2023.

Updates in this version include:

Values of Selection Criteria nor Filter Results of Custom Smart Views are not Copied- Article #77739
Course Catalog Does not Recognize Ultra Courses When Browsing per Categories or Term- Article #77740

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Update to client Production environments (Published July 6, 2023):
An updated version of 3900.69.0 (full release number: 3900.69.0-rel.26+d229c27) is being applied to client Production servers on Thursday, July 6, 2023. This update is an Ultra UI only change, so the build number did not increase.

Updates in this version include:

The Start and Continue options appear only for learning modules with a forced sequence applied.

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Update to client Test/Stage environments (Published July 4, 2023):
An updated version of 3900.69.0 (full release number: 3900.69.0-rel.26+d229c27) is being applied to client Test servers on Tuesday, July 4, 2023.

Updates in this version include:

REST API Call Returns a 400 Error When Attempting to Update Users Without Supplying a Birthdate - Article #77621
LTI Fails to Launch When the LTI 1.3 Custom Parameters Contain the '>' Character - Article #77389
Copying a Gradable LTI Content to More Than one Course will End up with a Grade Center Error - Article #77590
Preview Users Cannot be Removed from a Course - Article #77694

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Update to client Test/Stage environments (Published June 27, 2023):
An updated version of 3900.69.0 (full release number: 3900.69.0-rel.16+efb74c8) is being applied to client Test servers on Tuesday, June 27, 2023.

Updates in this version include:

Negative Variables Ranges are not Accepted in Ultra Tests Using the Swedish Language Pack- Article #76332

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Update to client Test/Stage environments (Published June 20, 2023):
An updated version of 3900.69.0 (full release number: 3900.69.0-rel.10+451aba6) is being applied to client Test servers on Tuesday, June 20, 2023. This update is an Ultra UI only change, so the build number did not increase.

Updates in this version include:

Closing an Assessment's Settings Panel Causes Spinner on Assessment Canvas That Never Goes Away- Article #77729

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Update to client Test/Stage environments (Published June 13, 2023):
An updated version of 3900.69.0 (full release number: 3900.69.0-rel.10+451aba6) is being applied to client Test servers on Tuesday, June 13, 2023.

Updates in this version include:

Deletion of Course Messages in one Course Causes Other Courses to be Auto-Archived- Article #77171

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Blackboard is pleased to announce the release of the 3900.69.0 (June 6, 2023) update of Learn SaaS for test and stage environments (full release number: v3900.69.0-rel.7+99730ca). This update will replace the previous v3900.67.0 release.

The July 2023 - 3900.69 release is replete with features in six areas:

Assessment and grading
Richer course and content
Data and analytics
Mobile app
Integration, extension, and management; and
Course upgrading

These improvements impact instructors, students, and administrators. Some features do require administrative action.

Instructors:

Partial and negative credit improvements for the Multiple Choice / Multiple Select question type
Tab navigation for Assessments
Add exceptions for anonymously graded assessments
Exceptions panel updates
Delete Grade Schemas
File deletion in the course also removes the file from the Content Collection
Manage Course Duration in Course Settings Panel
Import Instructure Canvas course packages
Improved flattening logic

Instructors and students:

Formative label and Gradebook filter
Complete/incomplete grade schema
Send reminders to non-submitters for anonymously graded assessments

Students:

Start, Continue, and View Assessment options and file submission updates
Progress Tracking and Start / Continue / Completed options for Learning Modules

All users:

Resizing media
Improvements to the Grades landing page
Manage Messages at institutional level
Self-enroll for Ultra Courses and Organizations

Administrators:

System administrators not enrolled in a course can access Course Activity and Student Activity Details reports
REST APIs to read Rubrics evaluations
LTI admin launches from Books and Tools, Content Market
LTI Tool Dynamic Registration

In some cases, the validation for Multiple Choice questions with partial/negative credit is not valid even if the total is 100%. For example, when an instructor adds a multiple choice question with partial credit enabled and adds 11 answers, assigning a partial credit score of 9.1% to ten answers and 9% to one answer throws a validation popup while saving the question.