Name: Learn More about Assignment Quick Add in Blackbaud Learning Management System™
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Description: Learn More about Assignment Quick Add in Blackbaud Learning Management System™

Transcript for "Learn More about Assignment Quick Add in Blackbaud Learning Management System™": Alright. Hello, everyone, and welcome. Today, we're gonna be taking a look at some of the updates that we have coming to the assignment experience for both the creating and grading workflows that teachers use day in and day out. Now this update is already live, but in today's session, we're gonna be doing a recap of these changes because it is in what we call limited availability or a feature preview state, meaning that you, as admin, must go in and enable this feature prior to your faculty being able to utilize it, but did wanna let everyone know that the new creating and grading workflows will become the default experiences beginning at July. So first, to introduce myself, hello. For those of you that may not have met me before, my name is Mike Morissette. I am one of the product managers here at Blackbaud. I've been with the company now for about ten years, and prior to that, I was a high school French teacher and swim coach. So that's a little bit about me. Like I said, really excited to share with you some of the updates that we've made to both the creation and the grading experience since this feature has gone live. But before we dive into the meat and potatoes, I do wanna do a little bit of webinar housekeeping. If you have not used or seen one of these webinars before, just a couple of tips and tricks for you. As I'm going through this webinar, we will be taking in questions, and we will hopefully be answering your questions. I have a couple of folks helping me on the back end. If you do have a question about any of the pieces of functionality that we are gonna be looking at today, please use the q and a option. You can find that up in the top right hand corner. If you click q and a, you can go ahead and submit your questions there. We will have a dedicated q and a portion towards the end of this webinar where some of my colleagues will be feeding me questions, and I will be answering those in real time for you. So we'll be pulling very specifically from that QA section. If you are experiencing any audio or technical issues, oftentimes refreshing your browser will resolve those. So please give that a try first. You will receive a link to this webinar as well. So that should be sent to you by email, and you are free to share that with anybody that you would like. I really, really encourage this being shared to teachers in particular. This is an update that is going to impact them. If you want to splice this video up to make it more digestible for your teachers, by all means, feel free to do so. And you can also find the documents that we're gonna be going over this webinar included or the slides in the webinar, I should say, included in the docs section, again, up in the top right hand corner. If you need to, for whatever reason, adjust your settings, you should be able to click the wheel icon that should be found in the bottom right hand corner. That should be able to allow you to update your audio settings should you need or want to. Now with that, I do wanna go through and talk about some of the updates. But, again, I do wanna also preface and say that some of the updates that we're gonna be talking about today are enhancements that will be coming in the future. So we'll be taking a look at some enhancements that we have planned that are not yet available in product. But like all things with product development, it's not uncommon for a particular solution as it presented to ultimately take a different form once it's ultimately been released. So if you are planning on making any purchasing decisions based on features and functionalities, just make sure that those are being based in functionality that is present today, not necessarily functionality that will be coming. As far as the agenda goes, we're gonna be doing a live product demo. So we're gonna be taking a look at the assignment creation process. And, our goal here is really to help teachers save time both through an enhanced user experience as well as some additional integrated features to help make sure that they have fewer clicks while creating assignments. We'll also take a look at assignment grading. Very similar concept there. We retooled the entire user interface and wanted to streamline and bring the total click count down from looking at student submissions to ultimately giving them some sort of a grade value. And then like I said, we'll also be taking a look at some enhancements that are coming soon. So with that, we're gonna transition out of slides, and we're gonna take a look at the product proper. So bear with me for just one moment. I'm also gonna hop off camera for this, and we are going to share my screen. Alrighty. So you should be able to see my sample database. Now I've gone ahead and I've logged in as one of my example teachers. The first thing that I wanna show off are what we call preferences or default values. With this particular update, we have added in a good number of preferences that teachers can now take advantage of. Now I will note that this must be configured on a teacher by teacher basis. So your teachers will have to go into the preferences themselves and set which preferences they want to utilize before they will ultimately take effect. There is not a bulk way of doing this at this time. Now for your teachers to access their preferences, they really have three or four different locations where they can do this. We're gonna be taking a look at the assignment center list view, but your teachers can also access preferences from the calendar view as well as directly from their Gradebook. So in order to access preferences, your teachers will click on more and then they'll find preferences here. Now the preferences that we're gonna be targeting are related to assignment creation. This is where teachers can set default values that will automatically populate when the teacher creates a new assignment. So from here, they can do things like mark the Gradebook default option. They can do things like mark the cumulative grade default option. These three preferences are not new, but some of the new preferences are down below. So things like assignment notification. If your teacher wants that to automatically be marked every time they go to create a brand new assignment, they can go ahead and select select by default for that. Similarly, if you have teachers that are using in product submission pretty regularly and they want that to be their default, they can go ahead and set a preference for that particular field. If you were a school that is utilizing mastery, if your teachers are using maybe total points while some other teachers are using mastery only, you can give the teachers the ability to set which particular evaluation method they want loaded every time that they go and create a new assignment. And then down below, we also have some preferences here related to due dates and times. So your teachers can come in here and select some values, and we'll go over these values when we get into the quick add experience. So those are a few of the preferences that your teachers have access to. And there's one other preference that's a little hidden that I wanna point out, which can be found within the Gradebook settings. So as a teacher, if you go into your Gradebook and we click settings, in your grade calculation option here, we actually have this value here called default max points. So as your teachers are adding in the assignment types into their Gradebook, they can go ahead and set default max points. That way when they select a particular assignment type, that max point value is automatically getting populated when they're adding an assignment. Now I will note all of the preferences that we just looked at are only going to affect the new quick assignment experience. It is not going to affect the legacy assignment experience. So this will, again, only work with the new quick assignments. So let's go ahead and take a look at creating a new quick assignment. So your teacher can access this option from any of the areas where they can go to create assignments today. Again, we're gonna take a look at the list view in the assignment tab. But, again, you can access quick assignments from the Gradebook. You can do it from the calendar view. You can do it from the class page or the assignment center. Your teacher just needs to click on the add drop down. And down below, we have this option here called quick assignment. That is how your teacher is going to access that new user experience. So we'll go ahead and click it, and you'll notice that this looks a good bit different from what was previously implemented with the legacy assignment experience. We've really condensed down the total screen, trying to make sure that your teachers have to do as little scrolling and clicking as humanly possible. So all of the same options that existed in the legacy assignment feature exist in the new quick assignment feature as well. So these are no different in any way, shape, or form. Everything that you could do previously, you can do with this UX two. Really, what we've done is just a lot of rearranging and hiding of fields and giving more default preferences. That way, teachers can leverage those and, again, ultimately, create assignments with fewer clicks. Now your teacher can go ahead, add in a title. We'll call this demo example. They can still add in a description for the assignment. And then here where they select their assignment type, you'll notice I'm gonna select homework, and that's gonna automatically update my max points value to 10. And, again, that was set up in the Gradebook. So if your teacher sets that up, great. Every time that they select a assignment type, that's gonna automatically populate that max points value here. From here, teachers can still attach files. They can pull from Google Drive. And something else that we'll take a look at in a little bit is a feature that's coming, and that is the ability to attach from OneDrive. So if you are a Microsoft school, we'll be taking a look at a couple of Microsoft three six five LTI enhancements that will be coming later this school year. But just know that that particular LTI integration will only be accessible with the quick assignments version, not the legacy assignments. Teachers can also add in links for students to access. Again, the exact same options that they had in the legacy assignments they have now in the new quick assignment option. Now a few other things that I want to kind of talk through and show off. Over here on the right hand side, we have a new pane, again, trying to make sure that teachers are scrolling as little as humanly possible. That way they can just see all the options up front. Your teachers can come in here, change things like the method. They can add in rubrics still. So if they do have rubrics in their bank, they can select from those here. They can choose to publish or add cumulative grades. And then if they are using the in system submission, they can go ahead and mark those options here. Now one thing that I will note that is a bit of a change, when in system submission is selected, this option here is always gonna default to one. Previously, we allowed for a zero option, but that would cause a little bit of confusion every now and again with how that was actually functioning. We know that students and teachers still want the ability to only give students the ability to upload text rather than uploading a file as well. So we do have some enhancements in the backlog to give teachers that capability. That way students don't see the file uploader and they just see the text editor instead. Something else that's kind of a big change with this particular update is you'll notice on the left hand side, we have an option here called advanced settings. So the basic setup really truly is basic bare bones. What are the absolute necessary fields needed in order to create an assignment and make it functional? In the advanced settings, we have a couple of different options here that are lesser utilized. So we didn't want them to take up a lot of screen real estate in that basic setup area. So in advanced settings, we have things like abbreviation, mark as extra credit, assignment factor, send notification. You can access and provide learning tools to a particular assignment. And if you wanna create multiple instances of assignment, all of those settings have been moved over to the advanced settings area. Now one thing that I wanna mow or note has to do with the abbreviation field here. In the future, this is not yet available but is coming. All of the reports that previously relied on abbreviation will instead show the assignment title. So that way, if you're running something like the missing grades reports or something to that effect that used to rely on the abbreviation for the assignment, we will now be showing the assignment title in that report instead. In the future, the only thing the abbreviation will be utilized for is in the Gradebook as the column headers. If your teachers want to show based on abbreviation, that will still be available, but all of the reports are being retroactively updated to instead point at the assignment title. And with that, that's pretty much the extent of the quick assignment experience. One thing that I do wanna show, I believe I have an example. I'm gonna have to go ahead and swap over to a different class that is scheduled, and I believe this one is. Nope. That one is not. Bear with me. I will show you the due date and due time feature in just a moment after we take a look at the grading experience because I will have to go in and find a different teacher that has a class action that is scheduled to really show off the due date and time functionality enhancements that we made. But I wanna take a look at the grading enhancements that we created as well. So first, we'll take a look at a traditional example, and then we'll take a look at a mastery and a mastery with a rubric example. So after your teachers have created an assignment and it's time to ultimately start grading, we went ahead and made some pretty big updates to the user experience of grading submitted assignments. So I'm gonna go ahead and swap over to a student that has already submitted something. So the first thing that I wanna call out is here on the right hand side, we have the student selector. Now this is a pretty big change from the previous experience where we had all the students on the left hand side and you could select from the students there. That was taking up a lot of screen real estate. And so for us to really fit information onto the screen as efficiently as possible, we ended up taking that really long list and converting it into a drop down. But we still wanted to make sure that teachers could see at a glance where students were and where the teacher was in the grading process from the drop down specifically. So when the teacher clicks on the drop down, next to the students' names, we do have a series of icons that are going to display. Now two of the icons that you see here, the blue with the exclamation point represents that a commitment still needs to occur. So the teacher entered in a grade, enter in a comment, but never actually committed. So that's why we're seeing that blue icon. And then here where we have this yellow inbox icon, that means that the student submitted something. The teacher hasn't yet graded it, but the student submitted something on that particular assignment, whether it be text, a document, what have you, a submission took place. Now when the teacher is ready to look at the submission, they click on the drop down, select the student, and then over on the right hand pane, this is where the teacher can see what kind of items the student went ahead and submitted for this particular assignment. Now for our example, we have three different file types listed here. So the first one that you're looking at is a Word document that was uploaded by the student. This will convert to a PDF on the back end, which then allows the teacher to come in and annotate over that PDF. And students can see the annotations when they go and they look at the assignment from their perspective. This annotation tool is not new. This is the exact same annotation tool that teachers had in the previous assignment experience. But you'll notice that now when we clicked on Bryce, that document automatically loaded and it automatically loaded with the annotation tool readily available for the teacher to begin utilizing. The teacher didn't have to click into anything. It just automatically displayed. Now we can also cycle between different submissions. So if the student submitted multiple files, for example, the teacher can go ahead and click on the name of the submission and have that load. Now that first example that we were looking at is, again, if the student uploaded a Word document or a PDF, it's gonna be a very similar experience for those two submission types. This option that we're looking at is actually a Google Drive file. One enhancement that we made with Google Drive is we now allow the teacher to see the drive file in a preview state without necessarily having to open up the file in Google Drive directly. So if your teacher just wants to quickly look through the file without necessarily making annotations or looking through the assignment history or what have you, they can do that just by clicking on the name of the file. However, if your teacher wants to still open up that file in Google Drive and make things like edits and what have you, they can click on this little icon here, and that will load the document in Google Drive just like it does today. So they have a couple of options as to how they wanna view the file. Again, if they wanna be speedy and they're not really looking to make inline edits or what have you, they can go ahead and just click the name, and that populates here on the left hand side. But if they do wanna get back into that Google Drive experience and go directly into Google Docs, they can click on the little icon here. Now you'll notice that for the Word documents, we have similar icons. This option here will allow the teacher to download the file. So if they need a download of it for whatever reason, that is available to them. Likewise, if they want to move this left hand pane into a full screen experience, they just need to click on this icon, and that will render the PDF in full screen rather than being just in the left hand pane. That particular option is really helpful for iPads if you have a smaller screen device and you wanna give more screen real estate to what the student submitted. That way you can make inline annotations. That option exists for that reason. Now we also can see text submissions. So if your students are submitting text, for example, on the assignment, the teacher can come in here, click text submission, and specifically see what it is that the student has uploaded. Again, all of this is rendering on the left hand side without the teacher necessarily needing to open up a new window or something along those lines. A few other items that I wanna call out in this screen. First, you'll notice up here, the teacher can still see learning profiles. So if the student does have a learning profile assigned to them, the teacher can click this option and choose to generate whatever learning profile it is that they need to. If the student only has one learning profile, when the teacher clicks this, it will automatically generate that one single learning profile rather than showing that model that we were just looking at. Additionally, the teacher can allow for resubmission. So if the student accidentally submitted something wasn't quite ready or done, they can go ahead and click allow resubmit, and that will put the assignment back into an incomplete state, and that will allow the student to upload a new file or make an edit or a change and then resubmit on their end just like it does today. And then from here, the teacher can also see when the student made that submission. We also leverage that same icon that teachers are accustomed to here. The blue inbox icon means, again, that the student submitted the assignment on time. If the teacher sees a yellow inbox icon here, that means that the student submitted the assignment past the due date and time. Now one other nice part about this particular setup is the teacher has the ability here to evaluate the student submission while simultaneously looking at the student submission. So they can enter in a grade value, add in a comment, and you'll notice that with the comment box, this now automatically gets bigger as this or as the teacher enters in comments. Previously, we had a really small port where this teacher could see the comment, so there was a lot of scrolling having to happen. But now the teacher can just go ahead, enter in comments directly, and that box automatically elongates to fit the teacher's comment. That way the teacher can really see the full comment at length without necessarily needing to scroll. The other part that I will mention when it comes to comments is that formatting is now retained. So if you're using things like bullets, line breaks, really most any other formatting option for the comment, when it is saved in the new quick assignment option, that now will translate when the student takes a look at the comments on their end. In the legacy assignment evaluation experience, that formatting did not come over, but now with this option, does. And teachers can also upload files. So if there is some kind of a filled out rubric or something to that effect, the teacher can attach a file. That way the student can access it when they are looking at the assignment on their end. Now all of the same options exist in this new layout that existed in the legacy layout. We still have things like bulk action. We still have all of the abilities to download files, to edit the assignment from here, to see the student preview. None of those options have changed. A lot of this really truly is just a UX update. Now since we've gone live, we have enhancements here and there depending on the feedback that we've been receiving from teachers that are actively utilizing this experience. The first of which is when a teacher is on this screen, the assignment title up at the top is gonna be limited to 30 characters. So the teacher will always see the full assignment title in things like their assignment list or on the calendar page, but now we strip out any HTML formatting that the teacher added in the assignment title and we limit it to just 30 characters. That makes sure that this particular screen stays small and efficient while the teacher is working in it. Previously, if the teacher had a lot of line breaks or what have you, this particular bar elongated quite a bit, and that kinda defeated the purpose of the overall new assignment evaluation experience. So this particular screen or this particular field rather is now truncated, again, just to 30 characters. If the teacher does need to be reminded of anything about the assignment, they can click on that show details option so they can see things like max points that the assignment is worth, what the factor is, what things are published, so on and so forth. Now a couple of other things that I want to point out. So in terms of let's go ahead and commit this. When a grade is committed, you'll notice here that we have some color ordering happening. So the icons that appear in the drop down correlate to a color bar. That way, the teacher can quickly, at a glance, see kind of where the student is in terms of the grading process. So you'll notice that once I have graded a particular student, and graded is defined as either having a grade, a comment, or a skill evaluation, the student will then move to a green check mark. If a student is marked as missing and if that is committed, then in the drop down, a red m symbol will display next to the student, and the teacher will see a red bar here instead. Again, that way the teacher can quickly, at a glance, identify which students might still need some grading to occur versus those that do not. Missing is the top tier icon, meaning that even if a student has a grade and a comment, if the assignment is marked as missing in this drop down, the student will always show the m with the red. Next up comes graded. So if they have an evaluation plus a comment or a skill evaluation, then they show graded. If there's a change that needs to take place, they show blue. And then if the student submitted something, they show yellow. So those are the different states that can appear in the drop down here. Now in the limited availability state that we're in, again, this is going to be available in product until July. And then after July, this will become the default experience. But if you turn this on for your faculty today, they still have the ability to access the older grading experience. So by clicking on this toggle up at the top right hand corner, your teachers can come back to that legacy experience if they need or want to. So they can still access that during this limited availability state. And, again, after July, this option will go away and this view will become the new default. Now let me go back. Let's take a look at a mastery example. So that was for traditional grades. This one is gonna be based around a student or an assignment that is using skills. So here, you'll notice that a lot of things are very, very similar. We still have the ability to submit. We still can see all the student submissions, the comments, so on and so forth. But then on the right hand side, we now get down into the various skills that are assigned to the given assignment. So from here, the teacher can click on the skill if they need a quick reminder as to what it exactly is and what it's tied to. And then from here, they can click on the drop down and give the students some sort of an evaluation. Teachers can also add in comments on a skill by skill basis. So if there is a particular piece of feedback that is related to one skill or another, we do give the teacher the ability here to add that in. Finally, let's take a look at a rubric example. So this is an assignment that has both mastery and a rubric. So here, we can see the mastery skills. And then here, when a rubric is assigned, the teacher must first click evaluate with rubric. And once that happens, then the rubric skills will appear. So very similarly, we have the different skills, and then the teacher can select what evaluation tier the student achieved on this particular submission. So as they're going through, you'll notice here that they get a little green check mark just letting the teacher know, hey. You've gone ahead and evaluated that skill. All is well. And just like with mastery, they can go ahead and add a particular comment onto a skill should they need or want. Now that is it for the different grading functions. What I'm gonna do now is sign out of Max here. Bear with me. We're gonna take a look again back at the quick add experience because I do want to show off a nifty feature that connects the the class section schedule to the creation of assignments. So bear with me for just one moment while we get that pulled up. Alright. Believe this one has a schedule. Let's go to assignment center. We may need to pull up a slightly different teacher, but we will find out here in just a moment. Yeah. We're gonna swap over to Ian Smith really quickly then. Here we go. Alright. So one other thing that we do with this update for quick add is we now link the class section schedule to the assignment creation process and more specifically when it comes to the due date and due time. So you'll notice here that in the due column, we have the ability to select what we call relative due dates and due times. So this means that your teacher doesn't necessarily need to know when the class specifically occurs. We do that heavy lifting for them by utilizing these relative due dates and times. So here, when the option is marked as next meeting, we are looking at the assigned date and then looking at your schedule to determine, okay. Great. When is the next meeting of the class after this assigned date and time? Based on that information, we then automatically populate based on your schedule when that is occurring. Again, that way your teacher doesn't necessarily have to look at the schedule or know when that next meeting time specifically is. Now if they want, they can still select specific date. So if this is an assignment that's gonna happen in, let's say, two weeks from now and they wanna get it into the student's hands a little bit ahead of time, they can still select specific date and still use that relative due time. So as the teacher makes a selection in the specific date, if they're using either start of class or end of class, we will automatically load that due time for them. Now I will note that when the assignment is created, if your schedule changes, for example, like, let's imagine that a snow day happens or something to that effect, your teacher will still need to come back into the assignment experience and manually update that new due time. When the assignment is saved, we then take this time slot and pretend as though the teacher had selected specific time. So that functionality where we're looking at the relative due date and due time really only happens on the creation portion. If anything needs to change after the fact, the teacher does need to come in here and make that manual adjustment. So that was the other thing that I wanted to show off. We've also updated this as well as of recent. So now what we're doing when we're using next meeting and start of class, we are always looking one day in advance. So if your teacher assigns an assignment for, let's say, 02/18, but they do it really early in the morning, like, thing that they come in, they say, yep. We're gonna go ahead and sign it at 7AM. Previously, we were always looking at what was literally the next meeting class. So if the teacher assigned it at 7AM and the next meeting slot after 7AM really happened at 10AM that same day, we were automatically loading two eighteen at 10AM in the due column. But now we are always looking one day or at least one day ahead of time. So it will ignore the meeting slot if it happens to be assigned on the exact same day. Alright. Now, that concludes our live demo. I'm gonna go ahead and swap back over to these slides. So bear with me. And let's talk a little bit about some of the enhancements that we have coming. So like I mentioned, what you see in product today, that is something that you can enable and you can enable that by going into core settings, activate new features, and then feature previews. From there, you can enable the new assignment experience. And, again, you're gonna be able to enable that up until July. And then after July, we will be converting everybody to the new assignment experience. But a couple of enhancements that will be coming before the end of the school year, the first has to do with seeing submissions. One of the big pieces of feedback that we heard from teachers that are actively utilizing the new grading experience is that one thing that they liked about being able to see the students on the left hand side was that it was a really quick at a glance view to see who submitted an assignment and was the submission submitted on time versus not on time and what grade did the students receive. So one thing that we're gonna do is in the list view, both from the assignment center and from the class tab, there is going to be a new default column on that list called submissions. And that is gonna show a number. And that number is representative of the number of students who have successfully submitted an assignment. The teacher can then click that number and a fly out will appear that shows the teacher all of that information. So it will display all students in the class if they have submitted the assignment or not and whether that submission took place on time or after the due date as well as the grade value that they received if a grade value was recorded. So they can see that quick out of glance information without necessarily going into the assignment grading screen. Additionally, from that fly out, teachers will be able to click on a student's name and automatically launch the new assignment grading experience from that student submission. So that way when they click on the student's name, we're gonna load the assignment grading experience and land the teacher directly onto that student. Again, hopefully saving them a couple of clicks. That is literally being worked on now. So we're hoping to have that in product either next week or the week after. So be on the lookout for that update. And I will note that when we release it, that will be released for both schools that are utilizing the new assignment experience and for schools that are not. So if you're a school that is not utilizing the new assignment experience, you will still have access to this enhancement. But when you click on the student's name, instead, it will bring you to the legacy assignment evaluation screen rather than the new one. We also will be taking a look at some OneDrive LTI enhancements. So I showed off in the new quick assignment experience, there is that new OneDrive button that is not quite ready for consumption, but it is coming, and it will only be available again in the new assignment experience. This is not just an update for teachers, however. Students, if you are a Microsoft school, will also be able to pull files from OneDrive when they are submitting assignments much in the same way that they submit Google Drive assignments. And then finally, we are also making some enhancements to Google Drive. We wanna give teachers more control over what kinds of files students are submitting on assignments. So for example, we're gonna give the teacher the ability to say that they only want a PDF version of a document by the student. So in when the student selects a file from their Google Drive, we will automatically convert that file to a PDF for the teacher. So, again, a little bit more control over what kind of submissions students are making when utilizing the Google Drive integration. So all of these enhancements are actively being worked on. We're hoping to have them in product in the relatively near future. And I will note for those of you that are actively utilizing this new assignment experience, we do have a survey in product. If your teachers have any feedback, definitely encourage them to use that survey. We are looking at every single submission and trying to make good on the feedback that we are hearing over and over again. So really, really excited to get these enhancements out into the wild and see how users are reacting to them. And with that, I'm gonna go ahead and move us over into the survey and the live q and a. I have been watching the feed. It looks like there are good number of questions that are popping popping up. So I wanna give you all a chance to get some answers. So I'm gonna go ahead and ask the colleagues on the back end to feed us some questions, and we will talk through whatever you all have submitted. Alright. The first question is, with Microsoft, you said it will be available this school year. Is that this semester, this summer, or at the beginning of next school year? We are moving from Google to Microsoft over the summer, and it'd be helpful to know a more precise timeline than what is avail or of when it will be available. So we are hoping to do an early adopter program of the new Microsoft three six five LTI integration before the end of this school year. So I can't give you a super specific timeline as of right now. There are some things that we are working with Microsoft on before we are ready to actually start onboarding schools. But, actually, if we have a little bit of extra time, I will show you some of the enhancements that we're making so you can see and know what to expect because we're pretty excited with the Microsoft enhancements that are coming later on. So definitely hoping to get something available to customers before the end of this year. Okay. Next up is will teachers be able to upload a file and use it as a template that is individually distributed to each student. If you are using the Microsoft three six five integration, the answer is yes. If you're using the Google assignments integration, we are still working with Google to bring that functionality to that particular learning tool. But for the Microsoft three six five integration, yes, you will be able to load a document from OneDrive and template that out to the students. That way, they each have their own individual copy. Alright. Next assignment. If a teacher does a quick assignment for multiple sections, if they assign during their first class block and choose next meeting, the assignment is due later that day for class blocks that start after their first class. Is there a way for due dates to know next class will be in the next day of class, not the same day? So that has actually been updated. So now when you are setting that relative due date and time, we should always be looking at one meeting into the future. So if your assigned date is happening on the same let's imagine, like, that same example that we looked at where the teacher is coming in at 7AM, creating all of the assignments for the day for all of their classes. Previously, what was happening was when they were using those relative due dates and times, they were looking at that same meeting time that happened on that same day. The feedback that we heard was, oh, teachers don't really want that. We always want it to be for one day or the next meeting time. That does not happen on that exact same day. So we are now respecting that setting. So we no longer have to set the assigned date or end time to be after the first meeting slot of that particular day. We are always looking one day ahead, and that is just default. So there are no preferences that need to be set. Let's see. The new grading view does not work the same way with Turnitin submissions. If you select a student from the pull down, the submission view is blank. Yes. That is correct. We have changed this slightly. So when you're using an LTI with the new grading setup, that LTI will now display in the student selector. So this gives you a lot more screen real estate to work with with the given learning tool. And we are doing this with all learning tools, and they all behave a little bit differently. And we'll actually be doing a slightly different webinar about learning tools probably towards the summertime where we'll go over a couple of different partners and how those workflows kind of function. But with Turnitin in particular, they allow you to edit and change grades for all students on the same screen. There isn't an ability to update just one single student or just view one single student's information in their window. So instead of showing all students even when you had one student selected, we now allow you to just view all the turn in and submissions, and the teacher can just do their grading directly from that screen rather than having to go student by student. Now if the teacher does wanna update something like a missing grade or something like that, they will still need to go in onto the individual student and mark missing, for example. Again, that's gonna vary on tool by tool. Not all tools have a missing option. Some do. For the ones that do, we will sync that over, but certain tools do not have that concept of a missing assignment. And so in that case, the teacher would need to go into the individual student and mark missing. Hey, Mike. Looks like we got through all of our questions. So if you do have some time at the end, if you'd like to go through that. Let's take a look at some of those LTI questions really quickly then. So bear with me. I'm gonna go ahead and log in as one of my test users, and we will take a look. So we are going to stop sharing, and I'm going to go ahead and share my screen again. Alrighty. So with the Microsoft LTI, the first thing that I wanna show off is a new concept for learning tools that we haven't ever had before, and that is the ability to manage resources within the tool directly from the class page. So, again, this is not available yet. This is a preview. But with the Microsoft three six five integration, here, when that is enabled, on every single class page, teachers and students will see a Microsoft tab. When they click this tab, we will then launch the tool. And the nice part with the three six five integration is this will actually give you a lot of resources that previously all were disparate LTI connections. So what Microsoft did was they took their OneDrive, their Teams, their Teams meeting, their Teams assignment, their reflect, OneNote LTIs. And instead of having separate connection types for all of these, they've combined them all into one single connection type. So you can see here I'm logged in as Max, and I can access any of these tools here from directly within my learning management system. So if you want to, for example, go to OneDrive, right, we can go ahead and click OneDrive, and you can manage OneDrive directly from within the LMS. And then nifty part is this creates a file in that user's OneDrive that is specific just to this one instance of English one three. So every single time that they create or are in a different class section, those are going to be separate from one another, making the organization really simple and easy. But the teacher can come back here, access any of the other Microsoft related items, and they can all be managed again from directly within the LMS without the teacher necessarily needing to go into Microsoft to access those items. Now with this particular update, we also are going to have the ability for teachers to create Microsoft Teams assignments directly from our LMS. So from the add drop down, they'll be able to select add Microsoft three six five, and then we will launch into the either the OneDrive or the Teams assignments user interface. And so from here, the teacher can go ahead and select the file. We can link it. And then that in turn will go ahead and create an assignment automatically in our database. So this is still a little bit of a work in progress, but you'll see more of that once we're ready to actually demo and show off this capability. The last piece really is what we looked at when it came to the creation of assignments, which is the ability to pull from OneDrive while creating an assignment and attach a file to the assignment item itself. So a lot of goodness coming with Microsoft that we're really, really excited about. And then with Turnitin, we can go ahead and demo that as well, just so folks can see what a learning tool looks like in the new grading experience. So we'll give this just a moment. So we're gonna go ahead and create a standard Turnitin assignment. Alright. So the assignment is going to create. There we are. We're gonna verify that all this looks good, and it does. We're gonna click save, and that's gonna go ahead and create our assignment for Now when this is launched, you'll notice up here top right hand corner, we have the turn it in option selected, and that's gonna be the default anytime that you are using a learning tool. And then from this screen, the teacher can access any of the students that need to be graded or that have submitted. So this would show the full roster of students, and the teacher can use the screen to go ahead and edit grades, see submissions, that sort of a thing. And you'll notice here that when I swap over to Bryce, I still have all the same options to grade, but I'm not seeing that full LTI screen any longer because, again, it does show the full roster. But that is what a learning tool will look like. And, again, this is gonna vary from tool to tool depending on how the tool has configured their their grading screen to appear. We'll have different workflows depending on what best fits that given tool, But this is just one example that you all can see. Alright. And with that, I'll I'll wait a moment to see if there's any other questions. Okay. Let's see. Can Google Schools create assignments in Google Classroom like they can in the Teams as you demonstrated? Not exactly. So when utilizing Google Classroom or Google assignments, there are really, well, kind of three different integrations that you can use with Google. The first of which is Google Classroom, and that particular integration leverages one roster. With the Google Classroom integration, most of the time, teachers are going directly into Google Classroom, creating assignments in Google Classroom, and then syncing those assignments back into our LMS. And most of the workflow that the teacher is doing is all happening within Google Classroom directly. With Google assignments, most of the workflow is happening within Blackbaud. So your teacher would go in, create an assignment, link Google assignments to one of our assignments, and then from our LMS, launch the Google assignments UX where they could go and manage those settings. Again, everything kind of happening within our LMS not going into Google Classroom necessarily. And then you have Google Drive, which we looked at, which, again, is also happening entirely within RLMS, but not quite as many features and possibilities as what the Google assignments integration allows for. They're all a little different. Each of them have their own use cases. So depending on what you want and what you want your teacher workflow to look like, we'll ultimately determine which of those you utilize. And I will note it's not uncommon for schools to use multiple of those integration types. Oftentimes, different teachers wanna use different things, so it's not uncommon for two of those integration types to be in in use at one given time. But in terms of that exact workflow that we saw with Teams, that is not currently possible with Google Classroom or Google assignments. Alright. Any other questions? Alright. Well, again, I appreciate you all jumping onto this webinar, learning a little bit about the new assignment experience. Again, the legacy assignment experiences will be deprecated in July. If you want to utilize the new experiences that can be accessed in core settings, activate new features, feature preview, and you must be a platform manager in order to access that screen. And as always, we're always looking for feedback, so happy to hear any pain points or suggestions that people might have. And, definitely, if you are using this new experience, direct your faculty to this survey. We are looking at these submissions daily and trying to make enhancements to both the creation and the grading experiences. So thank you all for joining, and I hope you all have a lovely rest of your day.