UAB's learning-management systems will continue the migration process to move all courses into the Bb Vista 4 production environment.
From Aug. 9 - 12:
- Vista 3 will be available in ‘read-only' mode to allow faculty access to view grades. No changes to content or grades can be made during that time.
- Vista 4 will be unavailable as originally planned and communicated as we perform the final portions of the migration.
- Vista 4 should be active and open to faculty/students by Aug.13.
The upgrade will offer some new features that can be used for assessments, assignments, creating community and grading:
- Blogs, journals and peer reviews
- Grading forms (rubrics), improved assessment statistics
- Greater abilities to associate course goals with assessments, create custom instructions, review the question statistics, grade distributions and descriptive statistics for each assessment, and
- Categorize Web links
This upgrade to Bb Vista 4 also will position UAB with Blackboard's roadmap for future releases.
Direct questions about the upgrade to Matthew Jennings, at 975-6545 or e-mail mjennings@uab.edu.