Building Blocks Wishlist

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The following Building Blocks are a wishlist based on input from Faculty User Group, general suggestions, and faculty and student suggestions from this page:

If you would like to submit your wishlist for Blackboard please email us at blackboard@austin.utexas.edu.

Gradebook

Send final grades to the Registrar's eGrades system
Drop the lowest grade(s) by category
Comments/Feedback columns
Stats data on grades (histogram)
Process all columns in a spreadsheet upload file

Groups

Include discussion board forum creation ability
Ability to self control
Ability to batch upload group membership
Assign Group Grade
Automatically create groups by unique number for combined courses

Miscellaneous

Photo Roster Integration
Student sign up for time slots (Appointment Scheduler added Nov. 06)
Advanced student tracking
- Discussion board posts and messages read (history)
Export discussion board posts to text file (version 7.2 installed May 07)
Automatically add TAs
Instructor file library
Student file library