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New Box View: Download Document with Annotations 681Delivered
681 votesUsers want the ability to download a version of the original document with current annotations applied to the document. 
New Box View: Editing Comments 290For future consideration
292 votesUsers want to edit their own comments after they have been posted and recognize which comments have been edited after initial posting. An additional benefit would be for instructors to be able to edit annotation... New Box View: Drawing Annotation Type 232Delivered
238 votesEDIT 3/30/2018: this was delivered by Box on 3/28/2018, so moving this idea to "delivered" Users want to free-hand draw on documents. New Box View: Display List of Current Annotations / Summary View 209In development
211 votesEdit 1/23/2018: Updated title and description to more accurately reflect the functionality being requested. Thanks Bill Blais for the suggestion! Users want to see that comments exist and the content of c... New Box View: Strikethrough Annotation Type 205For future consideration
209 votesUsers want to strikethrough text and associate a comment with the strikethrough. Ability to bulk delete Grade Center columns by selecting obsolete ones 205In development
215 votesSince we have courses used year by year by different teachers who also often modify the course, we end up with a bulk of useless Grade Centre Columns, and for the knew teacher it can be very confusing. Like Date... 
New Box View: Change Highlight, Text, and Drawing Annotations Colors 190For future consideration
192 votesUsers want to have different options for highlighting color, text color, and drawing color when annotating. New Box View: Indication of Comment in Highlighted Text (vs Highlighted Text without Comment) 182For future consideration
182 votesUsers want to more easily see when a comment is associated with a highlight vs when text is only highlighted without a comment. Create Questions via File Upload 179Open for voting
189 votesAllow faculty to upload questions from Word document, Google Drive, XLS, CSV, or Content Collection. They would automatically format in the appropriate question type and populate the assessment. 
Faculty member would like students to get receipt or email confirmation of submitted assignment 149Delivered
169 votesI know I deal with the case of "Yes, I turned in my assignment but Blackboard ate it." many times a semester. What do you all think of this idea of an instructor at my campus. "Is it possible ... 
Download Assessments 141Open for voting
151 votesThis would provide an option to make assessments available offline for students in the form of a PDF to download and/or print. New Box View: Annotate on Excel-based Files 128Delivered
128 votesUsers want to be able to add annotations to excel-based documents (.xls, .xlsx) New Box View: Area Annotation Type 124For future consideration
128 votesUsers want to select a free-form area and associate a comment with that area. Course Merge : automatically create groups 118For future consideration
134 votesIn order to be able to manage several cohorts at the same time with minimum hassle, a number of Professors ask the BB Admin to "merge" their courses into one so they don't have to do the job 10 times for the 10 ... 
Attendance 116Delivered
138 votesHow are you keeping attendance today, if at all? Are there ways we could track attendance that would not require any action by the educator? Is there some way we could track attendance through "normal" learner course ... New Box View: Allow Multiple Point Annotations to be "Sticky" / Created in Succession 110Delivered
112 votesEDIT 3/30/2018: This was delivered by Box on 3/28/2018 so moving the idea to "delivered" EDIT 1/4/2018: After discussion with others and reading through the comments, I realized the original description of this... Allow Admin to universally disable Force Completion on Tests 108Planned
130 votesWe've heard from many Admins and Instructors that the Force Completion option on Tests causes as much confusion as added benefit. This would create a switch that allows Admins to disable Force Completion at the system... Drag and Drop to upload files 107Delivered
113 votesWith the recent NPAPI deprecation, drag-n-drop no longer works in the UI. Instructors cannot easily add files to their courses. It takes many clicks to add files which is time consuming and unnecessary with the availa... Assignment submission validation 98For future consideration
98 votesNOTE: We are opening this idea for voting again, specifically for consideration in Ultra courses. In addition to validating file names, we are considering allowing the instructor to specify which file types are accept... 
Exportable, Visualized Student Performance Data 96Open for voting
96 votesThis idea would provide a dashboard that allows instructors to view student performance, as individuals or as a class, at both the assessment and course level. The data would be able to be exported to share with other...