Announcements | Announcements | Students are prompted with a pop-up when they first enter a course if there is a new announcement. Instructors can see the number of students who have viewed the announcement. Announcements are conveniently located at the top of the course for improved visibility.
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Attendance | Attendance | Instructors can quickly take attendance without having to set up Attendance Registers and Sessions. Instructors using Class Collaborate can have attendance information from Class Collaborate Sessions automatically feed into the attendance tool in Blackboard.
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Availability Dates & Conditions | Release Conditions | Instructors can release items to specific students or groups of students. Instructors can release items by date and time. Instructors can release items by how well a student performed on a specific assessment. Instructors can choose to show or hide items before release conditions are met.
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Calendar | Calendar | |
Classlist | Roster | Instructors can grant accommodations to students in their course to give them extra time on timed assessments or to waive deadlines. Instructors can quickly identify which students have been granted accommodations.
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Content | Content | Instructors can personalize their course by adding a course banner from their desktop or stock images from Unsplash. Instructors can drag-and-drop files and folders from their desktop onto the Content page. Instructors and students can use Search to quickly find any item on the Content page. Students can quickly identify and message their instructor from the Content page.
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Course Offering Information | Course Settings | |
Competencies | Goals & Standards | |
External Learning Tools | Teaching Tools with LTI Connection | |
Units | Learning Modules | Students can easily navigate to the next or previous item. Students can see the number of items they need to complete and the items they have completed so far. Instructors can personalize Learning Modules by uploading or selecting a custom image thumbnail. Instructors can enforce sequential learning, ensuring that students are working through items in the correct order.
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Lessons | Folders | |
Manage Dates | Batch Edit | Instructors can shift dates forward and backwards by range. Instructors can shift dates by calculating the range between two dates. Instructors can apply the same date and time for all selected items. Instructors can select one or more items and delete them. Instructors can select one or more items and make them visible to students. Instructors can select one or more items and make them hidden from students.
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Grades | Gradebook | |
Groups | Groups | |
HTML Document | Document | Instructors can embed files and set them to display inline and/or make them downloadable. Instructors can build documents with the rich content editor, upload files using drag-and-drop workflows, or make use of a robust HTML editor for more advanced use cases. Instructors can easily embed third-party integrations leveraging LTI to enhance the learning experience. Instructors can enable conversations that allow students to talk about the content. Progress Tracking can be enabled on Documents so that you can easily see which students have viewed it. Instructors can use Progress Tracking on Documents to quickly message students based on their engagement with the content.
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Web Link | Web Link | |
Assignment | Assignment | Instructors can label assignments as formative to help set expectations for learners. Instructors have a consistent authoring experience when creating assignments and tests. Instructors can enable SafeAssign to check submissions for originality.
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Discussion | Discussion | Instructors and students can easily see the number of responses and replies each participant has made within the discussion. Instructors and students can easily filter the discussion by participant. Instructors can easily identify which students have not participated and send them a message.
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Quizzes | Tests | |
SCORM/xAPI | SCORM | |
Surveys | Forms | |