Blackboard 6.3

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Blackboard 6.3 Discovering New Features
Melissa Brennan
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Application Pack 3

1. Multi-Language Support
2. Advanced Navigation Bar
3. Review Status
4. Adaptive Release
5. Advanced Assessment Questions
6. Assessment Question Completion Status
7. Performance Dashboard
8. Gradebook Null Option

• What is an Application Pack?
• Blackboard releases periodic Application Packs
• rather than major software upgrades.
• What do they include?
• New features
• Fixes to existing problems

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Multi-Language Support
Enables institutions to run multiple languages on
the same system.

• Languages
• German
• Spanish
• French
• Italian
• Dutch
• Portuguese

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Advanced Navigation
The new Detail view lets users expand and
collapse the Course Menu, and displays a
clickable link to each item in the course.
Users can toggle between the default Course
Menu view and the Detail view.
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Review Status
Items include a setting that allows students to
mark items as Reviewed. The Performance
Dashboard page reports which students have
reviewed the item.
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Adaptive Release
Provides the ability for an instructor to create
custom learning paths through course content and
activities. Activities can be released to
students based on a set of criteria.
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Advanced AssessmentQuestions
Calculated Formula Either/Or Calculated
Numeric. File Upload Hotspot Fill in Multiple
Blanks Jumbled Sentence Short Answer Opinion
Scale/Likert
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Assessment QuestionCompletion Status
Students may skip questions that they may wish to
come back to in an assessment. This feature
allows students to clearly identify which
questions they have actually completed from the
ones that they have skipped as they progress
through the assessment.
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Performance Dashboard
The Performance Dashboard displays the last time
each user logged in, their course role, Adaptive
Release criteria, Review Status for content
items, and grades.
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Gradebook Null Option
Excludes items from Gradebook calculations
including averages.
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Contact Information
Melissa Brennan Center for Teaching Learning
Technology CTLT Mortola Library 2nd Floor CIT
Lab Pleasantville Email mbrennan_at_pace.edu Phone
914 773 3816