Blackboard Labs Launches Bb Student App

Updated: June 22, 2015

Blackboard Labs has released a new Mobile Learn app for students titled Bb Student. The new app has the look and feel of Blackboard’s new design language New School aka the new Blackboard Ultra experience. To use Bb Student your institution must be running version 94.6.3 of the Mobile Learn B2.

The new app is a great modern update to the current version of Mobile Learn. Bb Student is still under the Labs umbrella which means it doesn’t contain all the current Mobile Learn features, yet.

Bb Student is available for iOS, Android, and Windows.

About Bb Student: (From Blackboard Labs Site)

Bb Student will help you react quickly to your changing course needs, while learning to plan for the future.

With Bb Student, you can view quick updates to your courses and course content, access a course outline for each of your courses, view the Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and PDF content from your courses, and experience a rich aesthetic that is easy to use and simple to learn.

Version History

Version 1.0 – June 5, 2015

New

• Take assignments, tests, and quizzes
• View submitted course work including feedback from instructors
• Dismiss announcements in the activity stream
• Additional support for attachments, 3rd party content, and text content items

Improvements / Fixes

• Resolves crash when opening certain file types
• Color correction for various grading types
• Announcement message support in the activity stream

Version 0.2 – April 16, 2015

New

• Course Grades
• Assignment and Test Grades

Windows Version Released – February 13, 2015

Bb Student launches for Windows.

Version 0.1 – January 15, 2015

Original Release