Below are some key details around releasing grades and feedback to students in Blackboard Ultra.
- Once grades and feedback for the main cohort are released in Blackboard Ultra, they cannot be retracted (though individual grades and feedback can be edited).
- Markers should be aware that any further feedback created after release will be immediately available to students, e.g. for students with extensions.
- Release of grades and feedback to students in Blackboard Ultra’s Gradebook is controlled by ‘posting’ grades, rather than by altering the visibility of the Grade Centre column, as was the case in Blackboard Classic.
- Where markers want to hold back grades and feedback, e.g. for students with extensions, it is recommended that during marking, staff add and save just the feedback but not post it, temporarily making a note of the grade within the feedback itself. Then, prior to posting the grades and feedback, add the grade to the work as normal.
- All Blackboard module sites remain active while there are students enrolled on the site. Once there are no students enrolled on the module site, the site is automatically archived for a minimum period of 24 months and then manually deleted.
- During that time a ticket can be submitted via DTS for the module site to be made available again. If colleagues wish to retain copies of feedback provided, this should be saved and stored on their OneDrive.
All grades provided to students on Blackboard Gradebook are provisional.
