Learn more about how to add new items and what items you can add to Blackboard Ultra.
This article provides guidance on how to copy content from an existing Blackboard course site (course copy) into an Ultra course.
This article contains video links for the new Blackboard Ultra navigation.
Follow these directions to upload a syllabus to Blackboard Ultra.
Learn more about Blackboard Ultra via the self-paced training.
This article provides guidance on how to grade student assignments in Blackboard Ultra so that the "New Submission" text disappears.
This article includes alternatives to blogs and wikis for use in Blackboard Ultra.
How to disable or enable alternate formats (Ally) download features from items in Blackboard Ultra
Discover how to rearrange and organize your Gradebook in Blackboard Ultra.
Discover how to create a new question bank from existing test questions within an Ultra course and copy question between Ultra course sites.
Use these instructions to access your Blackboard Ally accessibility report.
This article provides detailed steps for adding a user to an Ultra Blackboard course site.
Use this article to learn how to add a Zoom meeting to your Blackboard Learn Ultra course site.
Learn how to add accommodations for individual students on all assessments in your course.
Use this article to learn how to add exceptions or additional attempts to assessments for students.
Use this article to learn how to add instructions and descriptions to Blackboard Ultra Assignments
Use these directions to add a resource directly from Maxwell Library into your Blackboard Ultra Course.
This video demonstrates how to embed LinkedIn Learning Videos in your Blackboard Ultra Course site.
Discover how to batch edit due dates and availability for Blackboard Ultra content.
Use these instructions to learn how to format a Word document and use the Blackboard Test Generator tool to convert it to a Blackboard test.
This article provides guidance on how to add a custom course tile and banner image to Blackboard Ultra course sites, and how to properly select and format an image in Blackboard Ultra tiles.
This article provides guidance on how to create assignments in Blackboard Ultra
This article provides guidance on how to create discussions in Blackboard Ultra.
This article will get you started with generating learning modules and their associated images.
This KB article will get you started with generating rubrics.
How to download all student submissions for an assignment in Blackboard Ultra
This article shows how to embed a stream video inside a Blackboard Ultra course site using the Embed Cloud Documents tool.
Use these instructions to properly format a Word document to use the Blackboard Test Generator tool.
This article will guide you on how to generate discussion questions using the AI Assistant feature on Blackboard Ultra.
This article will get you started with generating test questions and question banks using generative AI.
This article provides guidance on how to get started using the gradebook in Blackboard Ultra.
Use the guidance in this article to learn how to add publisher content to your Blackboard Ultra courses.
This article shows how to make your Blackboard Ultra course available or unavailable to students.
Use these Instructions to learn how to move content in your Blackboard Learn Ultra course.
Follow these instructions to add an image to your course content.
Instructions for faculty who do not want students contacting them via messages in their Blackboard Course site.
This article provides guidance on how to reorder course content modules in Blackboard Ultra.
Reordering Gradebook column in Blackboard Ultra course sites by using the list view.
Use this article to learn how to send messages to students through Blackboard Ultra.
This article shows how to change the setting per Assignment to have Ultra post grades automatically rather than manually.
Check out this article on how to set up weighted overall grades in Gradebook.
Premade questions can be easier to use to create a test, survey, or question pool in Blackboard courses. Find out how to upload questions for tests.
This article provides more information about Progress Tracking in Blackboard Ultra.
Find out how to view and experience your Blackboard Ultra course as a student would.
This article provides detailed steps on how to access the class Roster in your Blackboard Ultra course site.
Use this article to ensure videos in your Blackboard Ultra Course sites are accessible to your students in an efficient and equitable manner. Don't burden them with having to download large video files, host them online!
View the PDF for the Blackboard Ultra Roadmap session and links for more upcoming info via this knowledgebase article.
This guide helps part-time faculty at Bridgewater State University navigate Blackboard Ultra. Key features include personalizing course sites, creating assignments, and integrating Zoom. Faculty can enhance accessibility using the Blackboard Ally report and utilize AI tools for course design. Access a self-paced teaching essentials course after login for more information, along with resources in the TTC Knowledgebase and updates from Anthology.
If you'd like to either check a student paper for plagiarism, or use SafeAssign to obtain an originality report for your own work, you may follow these steps in Ultra
Faculty can embed media from external websites such as YouTube, Vimeo, Quizlet, Soundcloud, VidGrid, Prezi, KhanAcademy, Spotify, Genial.ly, and NearPod. Each website will have its own process for sharing links.
Sometimes you may have several files to upload to your Blackboard course site. Rather than uploading a single document over and over, you can create a compressed .zip file and upload all the documents at once.
The official BSU Blackboard Course/Zoom Recording Retention Policy
Many times, courses get hidden instead of made unavailable to students or private. This results in the course disappearing from an instructors view in Blackboard. Use this knowledgebase article to retrieve a course that has inadvertently been hidden.
If you have a course that has been selected to use an online course evaluation, your students will receive emails with a link to complete the evaluation. You can also add a link to your Blackboard Ultra course site to help students reach the evaluation.
If you create additional assignments or tests in Alta after you’ve imported your common cartridge to Blackboard Ultra, you can import them individually.
Follow these instructions to add Edpuzzle content to your Blackboard Ultra course.
If you use random blocks of questions from your test banks to make quizzes or tests, you can still do so in Ultra. Follow the steps below to set up a random block test:
Perusall is a social learning platform that aims to improve learning outcomes by promoting student engagement and collaboration with all types of course content. You can link to Perusall from within your Blackboard course site.
Blackboard allows you to "complete" a course, leaving it open for students but no longer allowing any submissions or editing.
Discover how to make changes to multiple course content items at the same time with batch editing.
Learn how to add a banner image to your Blackboard Ultra course.