Instructional technologies provide many opportunities to support assessment and track student performance in Blackboard.
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When Good Design Is Invisible: Four UMBC Faculty Share How UDL Supports Student Learning
Small design choices make learning more accessible for all.
Students in Sarah Bass’s chemistry courses who use the course-grounded AI assistant say it feels like talking to their professor. Many of their classmates, though, don’t know the assistant exists...
Posted: November 3, 2026, 2:30 PM
Reminder: Blackboard Original View Retires December 31, 2026
Migrate, Redesign, or Archive Original View Organizations
As announced in June 2025, Blackboard will retire Original courses and organizations on December 31, 2026. Starting January 1, 2027, all Original content in courses and organizations will be...
Posted: November 3, 2026, 10:00 AM
Print a Rubric for Saving or Grading in Blackboard’s November Update
Also available: Find any student in a group set
It’s week eight, and a student emails asking to move to a new project team. Every student in your 30-person group set is already assigned, so finding her means opening group after group until her...
Posted: October 29, 2026, 11:07 AM
6 Ways to Make Humanities Content More Accessible
The text matters. So does whether students can reach it.
A student pulls up the assigned primary source the night before class: a scanned nineteenth-century pamphlet, photographed at an angle, half the page lost in shadow. She can make out maybe...
Posted: October 27, 2026, 12:00 PM
Fix Your Content Day: A campus-wide day of course accessibility fixes
November 10th: 1,600 fixes. 160 courses. One day.
Fix Your Content Day is a campus-wide accessibility sprint happening on November 10, 2026. For one day, faculty and staff across UMBC will come together, virtually and in person, to tackle...
Posted: October 22, 2026, 10:00 AM
6 Ways to Make Visual and Creative Media More Accessible
Art can challenge students without creating barriers.
A student opens the image for tomorrow's critique. The assignment asks her to analyze composition, contrast, and scale, but the image description says only, "abstract painting." She knows what...
Posted: October 20, 2026, 4:59 PM
Export Rubrics from Dedicated Hub in Blackboard's October Update
Keep AI conversations in the target language
Down the hall, a colleague teaching another section of the same course asks to borrow the rubric you spent a weekend refining. How do you easily share this rubric in a Blackboard format? Later in...
Posted: October 15, 2026, 3:30 PM
6 Ways to Make Social Science Content More Accessible
Where evidence lives shouldn't decide who can reach it.
A student opens the assigned dataset the night before discussion, ready to test a hypothesis about voting patterns in urban counties. But the chart won't resize, the color-coded legend is...
Posted: October 13, 2026, 10:00 AM
Restrict File Types in Assignment Submissions in Blackboard's September Update
Preview Outcomes mastery also available in gradebook
A student submits their essay as a Pages file. Another turns in a .zip when you asked for a single PDF. By the time you notice, you're chasing down a resubmission instead of grading. September's...
Posted: September 17, 2026, 3:00 PM
13 Tips to Get Your Blackboard Course Ready
Checklist to optimize your course before the semester starts
The week before the semester starts can feel like a sprint: A full inbox, a syllabus that still needs one more edit, and a course shell that isn’t quite ready for students yet. Before the scramble...
Posted: August 12, 2026, 10:00 AM
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