The new features in this month’s Blackboard’s upgrade will be available from Friday 3rd October. This month’s upgrade includes the following new/improved features to Ultra courses:
Improved student view of fill in the blanks test questions
Following the October upgrade, the student view of fill in the blanks test questions will be improved so that the students’ responses are placed in situ, rather than as a list at end of the question.
More information on the different types of questions that can be used in tests is available from: Blackboard Help – Question Types
Add metadata to test questions
October’s upgrade will allow staff using tests in NILE to add question metadata to their test questions via the use of tags. Metadata tags will be visible during question creation and editing and can be used to filter questions when reusing or adding to pools. Tags can be added to questions in a test, or to undeployed questions in the question bank.
More information about setting up tests is available from: Blackboard Help – Create Tests
Learning technology / NILE community group
Staff who are interested in finding out more about learning technologies and NILE are invited to join the Learning Technology / NILE Community Group on the University’s Engage platform. The purpose of the community is to share information and good practice concerning the use of learning technologies at UON. When joining the community, if you are prompted to login please use your usual UON staff username and password. By joining the Learning Technology / NILE Community you will receive calendar invitations to our regular live community events:
Join the Learning Technology / NILE Community Group
More information
As ever, please get in touch with your learning technologist if you would like any more information about the new features available in this month’s upgrade: Who is my learning technologist?
