9.11.0
Features
Improvements to mobile session timeouts. Improvements to the Blackboard App authentication process reduce the frequency of logouts and enhance user experience. When Blackboard App 9.11.0 is released (December 2024), users must update the app on their devices for proper functionality. Those who don’t will see a red banner informing them that their session has expired.
Bug fixes
Deleted LTI items still visible in app
Push notifications not received
Push notification doesn’t load a message
9.10.0
Bug Fixes
* Mobile App doesn’t honor an enrollment availability override for a student user trying to access a Locked course.
* Feature list reorganized in More menu to align with the menu order of the desktop view.
8.8.0
New Features:
• Institutions can now manage message availability. Users will see improvements in Messages, making it easier to spot new/unread messages.
• On the grades landing page, users can view overall course grades.
• When an admin specifies an inactive session duration, the app doesn't auto-renew. Users receive notifications prior to logout. This adjustmentensures compliance with security certification and is configured by the institution.
8.7.1
In this patch release, the issue related to the SSO link not reading SSO session after logging into the mobile app has been resolved. Clients experiencing this problem will now find that the LTI link correctly reads the SSO session and no longer prompts for additional logins on the mobile app, aligning with the expected behavior seen on web browsers.
We hope this update will provide better support and we are sorry for the inconvenience these issues have caused our users.
8.6.0
In this update, we bring you:
• Messages now respect admin settings to hide disabled course messages
• Resolved expired passwords issue
• Enhanced course settings with new options, relocated for better accessibility
• Fixed missing content issue
• Redirecting issue resolved for uninterrupted pronoun sound play
• Bug fixes to push and calendar notifications
We hope this update will provide better support and we are sorry for the inconvenience these issues have caused our users.
8.5.0
In this update, we bring you several bug fixes:
- Issues with hidden/exposed discussion boards
- Courses displayed outside of current term
- Notification issues
We hope this fix will provide better support and we are sorry for the inconvenience these issues have caused our users.
8.4.0
In this update, we bring you several bug fixes:
- Language issues
- Errors with grading rubrics
- Issues with VoiceThread
We hope this fix will provide better support and we are sorry for the inconvenience these issues have caused our users.
8.1.0
2023/02/02
Shortly after our previous update, we offer a couple more improvements to the app that will help with the stabilization and crashes. Among others, we fixed issues with notifications, materials, ZOOM videos, Collaborate sessions, and PDF downloads.
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7.10.0
2022/12/21
In this release, we bring you improvements to the following issues. These will help with app stabilization and optimization:
- Wrong format of Due dates
- Issues with downloading course materials
- Issues with downloading files in Ally
- Wrong redirection
- Blank institution pages
- Issues with opening mp4 links
- Issues with HTML and LTI links
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7.9.0
2022/11/10
Last couple of weeks we were working relentlessly on fixing issues that you, our users, are reporting to us. With this release, we bring the following bug fixes and improvements:
-Issues with push notification not sending users to the right locations
-Courses display issue
-Due date error messages
-Additional improvements to help on latency and freezes
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7.8.2
2022/10/21
With this release, we have fixed the issue that have prevented our users from loading courses on the Android App. We sincerely apologize to all our users affected by this bug.
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7.7.0
2022/09/13
In this release we are changing our branding strategy. Our app has a new name and iconography that corresponds mor with the style we adopted after app consolidation.
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7.5.0
2022/07/07
In this release we’ve fixed:
• An issue that prevented some users from being able to login properly when using force to web authentication.
• An issue that prevented users in accessing the courses that has custom availability (or) duration for the course, overriding the term’s duration settings.
7.3.0
2022/05/25
In this release we’ve made some small improvements and squashed few bugs.