Blackboard Ultra Guides

Blackboard Learn Ultra is the new, enhanced version of Blackboard Learn, our university Virtual Learning Environment. It retains aspects that you are familiar with but has a more usable and intuitive interface, and introduces new features and functionality – things that we know you have been asking for. See the Blackboard Learn Ultra Project site for more details.

Introductory Guides

• Ultra Organisations: Quick Start
• Blackboard Learn Ultra Tour
• Ultra: Customise your Course
• Building Content in Blackboard Learn Ultra
• Ultra: Presenting files to students

Adding Content

• Ultra: Add Content – Create item

  • Ultra: Create Content – Learning Modules and Folders
  • Ultra: Create Content – Document
  • Ultra: Create Content – Links
• Ultra: Add Content – Copy Content
• Ultra: Add Content – Upload
• Ultra: Add Content – Content Market
• Ultra: Add Content – Content Collection
• Ultra: YuJa media chooser

Making Content Available to students

• Ultra: Release Content to Students 
• Ultra: Make a Course or Organisation available
• Ultra: Batch Edit – Visible to Students
• Ultra: Release Conditions
• Ultra: Forced Sequence
• Ultra: YuJa Video Link

Customising Course

• Ultra: Course Banner
• Ultra: Course Staff
• Ultra: Manage and Enrol Users (Adding and removing members)
• Ultra: Progress Tracking

Groups

• Using Groups in Learn Ultra
• Ultra: Importing and Exporting Groups

Editing

• Ultra: Student Preview
• Ultra: Text Editor

Communicating with Students

• Ultra: Messages and Emails
• Ultra: Announcements
• Ultra: Class Conversations
• Blackboard Ultra: Discussions
  • Ultra: Create a Discussion
  • Ultra: Organise and Manage Discussions
  • Ultra: Reply to a Discussion
• Ultra: Journals

Assessment

• Ultra: Set-up Turnitin Assignment
• Ultra: Edit Turnitin Assignment

Student facing guides

• What are Organisations
• Blackboard Learn Ultra

Guide last updated on March 5, 2024