Blank Page? Quoi?

What is this Blank Page content type that we can add to content areas? How does it differ from items, folders, etc.? Hmm.

Course menu behavior

When a content area on a course menu is completely empty, its link on the course menu is hidden when edit mode is off. Students won't see course menu links that go to "Empty" areas. Instructors need to go into Edit mode to see the content area in the menu. This will be a training point for instructors.

Content Collection?

Has anyone looked into the Content Collection / Course Files feature? It's new and it looks like a big deal.

Assignments tool settings

The Assignments tool is now more flexible:

Instructors can allow students to submit once, unlimited times, or a specific number of times.

And instructors can set up an assignment so that it will accept late submissions but mark them in the grade center as "LATE."

Two thumbs up!

"Recycle Course" now "Bulk Delete"

The "Recycle Course" feature is now called "Bulk Delete." I don't see the term recycle anywhere. Hard habit to break?

Speaking of things we want to prevent faculty from doing, we need to adjust the instructor role permissions in BB9 to mimic the changes we made to the instructor role in BB7.

Discussion Forum descriptions

In BB9, descriptions of discussion forums appear to the right of the forum title, instead of below the forum title as in BB7. This isn't a big deal, except that long forum descriptions may clutter the page.