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Blackboard upgrade Easter 2016: Summary of changes

04 Apr 2016

The IT Student Systems Team has successfully upgraded Blackboard to “Q4 2015 Release”.

This upgrade has improved current functionality, incorporated security enhancements, performance improvements and bug fixes:

  1. The maximum size of wiki pages has increased to one million characters (ten times the previous limit), fixing the problem of disappearing text.
  2. Deep linking is restored - this allows users to click on links to specific items of content and go directly to that content in Blackboard, e.g. specific Content Areas or documents.  However, there are still a small number of issues to be resolved regarding deep linking directly to some Blackboard tools when users are not already logged into Blackboard.
  3. A new version of the Turnitin building block is available.

What do staff need to do?

Detailed updates will be made to all Knowledge Base articles relating to these new features.  In the meantime, if you have any questions about these changes please contact your eLearning Team.

Contact for further information:

Please contact your eLearning team via the Support Centre: https://supportcentre.manchester.ac.uk/