Overview
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Blackboard Learn is moving to cloud hosting for the Fall 2021 term. The cloud infrastructure (BBLearn Saas) improves overall system performance, scalability, and allows for zero-downtime updates and fixes.
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Users should generally notice faster performance, such as page load times, file transfer, and task processing within the Blackboard tools.
Highlights
New content editor. The content editor has been simplified while expanding several options. Users will see a new icon set, more accessibility options, an enhanced spellcheck tool, new special characters searchable library, among other changes. View Blackboard's documentation for more details: Content Editor Quick Guide and Content Editor Comparison Guide
Bug fixes. Several issues will be addressed by upgrading and moving to BBLearn Saas. Many are backend bugs and existing administrative issues, but some will be evident in the user experience.
These are some examples:
- Random re-ordering of assignments will no longer occur
- Enhancements to BB Annotate for file mark-up and security
- Proxy errors and performance load issues mitigated
- Content collection loading delays for certain roles resolved
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