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Bb Annotate Grading Tool Update

ISSUE: Recently Blackboard instituted a new in-line grading tool in Bb Annotate.  While this tool has several improvements and features compared to the old “New Box View,” we have discovered a design issue that can cause significant frustration and lost work. 

Some types of annotations, such as the pen tool or the text tool, save automatically, but the comment tool (which we expect most instructors will use the most often) does not save your comment unless you click the ‘reply’ button. 

FIX: Blackboard is working to change this behavior, but until then, you need to click the ‘reply’ button as shown below to save the comment.

Blackboard is working to change this behavior, but until then, you need to click the ‘reply’ button as shown below to save the comment.

Once you click reply it locks the comment in and you will see this, at this point the comment has been successfully saved:

Once you click reply it locks the comment in and you will see this, at this point the comment has been successfully saved:

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