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Join this weekly meeting facilitated by the Client Experience, Product Management and Blackboard Support teams, to hear about and discuss the latest new features, releases and top reported known issues. You will have the opportunity to learn from your peers and Blackboard experts through weekly topics and discussions.

Every Tuesday at 12:00pm - 1:00PM ET.
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Course Evaluation Tool Integration

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Hi everyone, just wanted to pick your brain. Our institution is in need of a formal course/instructor evaluation tool. (We currently use Bb Enterprise Survey) I plan to kick off a task force to find a tool. I know most of the major ...

Jacob Martar Category Learn Office Hours 7d

Heya Jacob,
We use Explorance at UoB. We actually never integrated it into Bb, it's only plugged into our SIS. We ...

@Jacob Martar We use Explorance, with full LMS integration. Their support is not very competent and overall, it's ...

Time selection quick pick

Is there any conversation about having the time short cut selection in Ultra as opposed to the current selection view? I know it seems minor, but the selection of a time is much quicker than using the 3 selection boxes.

Sharon Paul Category Learn Office Hours 22d

Lock items from moving in Content are for Ultra

Is there any option to lock items in the content area for Ultra so that they cannot be moved around by instructors. For instance, we have some items that are in all classes such as the Entry Verification Item. We want that to be the first ...

Sharon Paul Category Learn Office Hours Apr '25

Rubrics in Ultra, features now and possibly on road map

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We are just starting our move to Ultra. we will be running some courses in the Summer. We have run into some functionality that is not in Ultra for Rubrics that we have in original. If I am missing something, please let me know For Ultra is ...

Sharon Paul Category Learn Office Hours Mar '25

Mar '25

@Sharon Paul I support all these items. I believe the answer to item 3 is to check the offline submission check box on ...

Mar '25

@Sharon Paul We use a ‘gradebook item’ for assessments without a submission (e.g. like a manual column in ...

How does one join this meeting?

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Is there a link to the meeting somewhere? I see links to the recordings and links to information about the meeting.

Erik Watkins Category Learn Office Hours Mar '25

Mar '25

Hi @Erik Watkins ,

You need to register to receive the Office Hours link - you can do that here:

I'll send you a direct ...

'Hide Discussions tab' item disappeared

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There was an item in the release notes for the 112 release called 'Hide Discussions tab from student course view', which we'd looked at and were keen to use when it went onto Production. It now seems to have disappeared from the release ...

Hanrahan Highland Category Learn Office Hours Mar '25

Mar '25

@Hanrahan Highland
See the February 18, 2025 Blackboard Office Hours where the change was discussed/shared in ...

Build Number Updates

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Hi! Making sure everyone is aware of an upcoming change in release communications. As discussed in Office Hours this week, we will no longer update the Release Notes page with the latest build numbers and send page notifications. You ...

Nikki Tremann Category Learn Office Hours Jan '25