Version 6 Improvements
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My Blackboard page
- Option to choose which courses are listed on the main page (Instructions)
- Report Card module for students to view grades
- Dictionary and Thesaurus
Course menu
- Customizable menu
- Frame and text colors
- Organization
- Links
Course content
- Quick edit
- Copy or move items or folders within or between courses
- Built-in spell checker
- WebEQ and MathML for entering equations
- WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor (IE/PC only)
- Preview access to course materials (instructor-enabled)
Gradebook
- Upload from spreadsheet
- Confidential information encrypted
Course Tools
- Assignment Manager
- Glossary of instructor-provided terms
- AOI Science Toolkit (Building Block)
Communication Tools
- Virtual classroom tool updated
- Lightweight text chat
- Internal messaging
Quizzes and Surveys
- Save as you go
- Force completion
- Prohibit backtracking option
- Extended feedback
Groups
- Advanced Group Management (Building Block) with randomization
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.
