Teaching Tip: Blackboard updates can benefit students

March 25, 2014

Marissa Carl

UAF’s Blackboard was recently updated to Service Pack 13, and here are some new features you need to be aware of:


  • Instructors can see what their courses look like and submit assignments as a student by clicking “Go to Student View.”

  • Students can view all items in your grade center and arrange according to recently submitted, recently graded, alphabetical, chronological or upcoming.

  • An attempt in progress now looks like a blue pie graph.


Click here for more updates, to see screenshots of the features mentioned above and for a downloadable graphic you can use in your own Blackboard course: http://elearning.uaf.edu/go/tt-bbsp13-gradebook

-- Teaching Tip by Heidi Olson and Tina Johnson, UAF eLearning & Distance Education instructional designers

Blackboard Updates