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Redesigned Groups, Cascading Release Conditions in the May Ultra Update
Smarter tools for course design and student support
Have you ever spent more time wrestling with Blackboard's Groups tool than actually designing the group work itself, especially in a large course? The May Ultra update delivers meaningful...
Posted: May 5, 2026, 9:03 AM
Blackboard's Groups tool gets a major redesign that makes managing students faster and easier
Preview it on our test server before it goes live on May 20
Have you ever wrestled with Blackboard's group management -- spending too many clicks trying to organize students, waiting for pages to load in large courses, or losing track of who's assigned...
Posted: April 27, 2026, 10:49 AM
Raise a FA26 Bb Course Ally Score by Fixing the Prior Version
"Strive for 85" with Digital Accessibility
As announced last month, UMBC is working toward a campus-wide goal of highly accessible courses by the end of 2026. To help, DoIT recommends that faculty identify accessibility gaps in prior...
Posted: April 22, 2026, 3:23 PM
SU2026 Courses Created in Blackboard on April 16, 2026
New Process To Request Merged Course Shells
Blackboard course shells for Summer 2026 were created on April 16, 2026. All Summer 2026 courses listed in the UMBC Schedule of Classes (SOC), regardless of designation as lecture, lab, etc, or...
Posted: April 16, 2026, 12:37 PM
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