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Discussion and Journal not Changing Icon When Grade Category Gets Changed

When a journal or discussion is created and then the grade category is changed, the icon will not change. Other grade items will change the icons.

Description

When a journal or discussion is created and then the grade category is changed, the icon will not change. Other grade items will change the icons.

Steps to Replicate

  1. Log into Blackboard Learn Ultra Experience as an administrator

  2. Navigate to System Admin

  3. Create a new course

  4. Create an assignment, test, or form

  5. Change its grade category to any other one

  6. Save the changes and close the window

  7. Note that the icon changed to the new category that has been selected

  8. Create a Discussion or journal

  9. Click on grading, and make it gradable (click grade discussion/journal)

  10. Change its grade category

  11. Save the changes and close the window

Observed Behavior:
The icon will not change to the new grade category.
​Expected Behavior:
The icon should change to the new grade category.

Target Release

Functioning as Designed

Information

The behavior of this feature is intended. A discussion and journal will always be a discussion and journal by nature. Categories can be aligned to better manage them, like your "homework" is to participate in this discussion, but that doesn't mean the discussion is a discussion anymore.

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