Changing to version 5.0.2
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The new version of Blackboard, version 5.0.2, will improve and alter certain aspects of the courseware's functionality.
Course Listings Page
- Courses are now displayed in alphabetical order
- TA's, Graders, and Course Builders are included in the "Courses In Which Your Are Enrolled."
Announcements
- A hyperlink can easily be added to an announcement by typing in the URL (no HTML required) with the Smart Text option selected.
Gradebook
- Gradebook is now alphabetized and includes usernames as well to reduce confusion with students with the same name.
- Gradebook columns can now be arranged by date added, name, or type.
Communication Tools
- Each communication tool can be disabled individually.
- In addition, the instructor has the ability to disable the automatic archiving of Virtual Classroom sessions. To modify communication tools, the instructor or TA clicks on Control Panel > Course Settings > Area Availability , scrolls down to communications area, and then selects which tools are to be disabled.
Send e-mail
- Select Users now displays users in alphabetical order.
- Select Groups now displays groups properly.
Discussion Boards
- The correction to give full authority to TA's to add forums and remove messages does not work correctly yet. Only instructors can add forums and remove messages at this point.
Support materials for Bb 9 are available at:
https://wikis.utexas.edu/display/bbsupport/
Blackboard is a campus-wide initiative of:
comments about the site to: Malaika Boyd: mboyd@mail.utexas.edu.
