My.Seneca got an Upgrade! | Academic Newsletter | Seneca Polytechnic

by Andres Quintero, ITS

in the June 2018 issue

My.Seneca was successfully updated in early May. We are now using version Q4 2017 of Blackboard. In addition to bug fixes and enhancements, here are the new features and improvements:

Submission Receipts: Students can receive a notification email for each assignment attempt with submission information (including the attached file); they can also access their submission receipts at any time on the My Grades page in the submissions filter area.

Support of Blackboard Ally

Learn 2016 Theme Improvements: For pages with tables, the course menu and My.Seneca pages are better optimized for hand-held devices that are not using the existing Blackboard mobile app.

Improved Grading with Rubrics: When grading with rubrics, we can now save our feedback and the content will remain saved when changing the rubric's view from in-line to full screen.

Chemistry Notation Support: The math editor in the Content Editor has been updated to a newer version of WIRIS. This version adds tools specific to chemistry including an embedded periodic table of elements.

Course Availability Status: We can see the availability of the course and can change the availability from the main course view.

SCORM Engine Update: The integrated SCORM player has been updated to a newer version that improves playback of responsive content and better supports SCORM packages in right-to-left languages such as Arabic.

Collaborate Ultra Support for Groups: Collaborate Ultra can now be used for synchronous meetings by Groups within a course.

Grade Display Standardization: All grade centre columns (online and downloads) and My Grades support up to five decimal points, are not rounded, and are consistent for all display types (score, percentage, letter grade).

Grade Center Clean Up: Multiple columns can be deleted at once from within the "Manage/ Column Organization" area. Columns created manually can be deleted. Columns associated with gradable items (Journals, Assignments, Wikis, Blogs, Tests, etc.) can be cleared of grade data but remain in the Grade Center (those can only be removed by removing the gradable item).

Blogs and Journals: Blogs and Journals have been optimized for use on mobile devices. Posts and comments composed with responsive content will render on smaller devices. Options for filtering posts or navigating groups or users will appear below currently viewed posts.

Discussion Board “Replies to Me”: Keeping up with large Discussion Board forums is easier as participants can now view a count and can filter to just view any new replies.

If you have any questions, please email Seneca Blackboard Support (bbsupport@senecacollege.ca) and/or create a ticket with the Service Desk (servicedesk@senecacollege.ca or extension 22129).

View the June 2018 issue of the Academic Newsletter.