Collection of Blackboard Learn Ultra Guides.
As the Module Convenor or the lead academic teaching the module, you will need to prepare your Blackboard Ultra Course ready for the new Semester. You may wish to coordinate these tasks with other module instructors or teaching assistants who teach on the module. If you are a new member of staff, please view the Getting […]
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Online Exams 2025 recommended settings Programme Admins: All the information regarding the exam type, submission type and specific tool recommendations are covered in the guide Recommended assessment tools for online exams 2025 (a link to this document will be added once it is finalised). For guidance and support, please see “Useful links” below. If you
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Once you’ve associated a rubric with an assignment, test, or a marked discussion or journal, you can use it to mark the students’ work. Please note that you can currently associate only one rubric to each item. You can’t associate a rubric to an assignment with questions at this point, so you should add/create the
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The Ultra Gradebook has filtering features which allow users to filter their gradebook view by multiple variables, such as individual users, groups, items, and categories. You can also filter the Gradebook to only show students on merged courses. This offers more flexibility for users wanting to get a focused view of their Gradebook. Applied filters
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The Notetaker role in Blackboard is designed to enable easy access to learning materials and course announcements for those providing notetaking support to DAS registered students. The Notetaker role should now be used instead of the Guest role, which is no longer supported in Ultra. The role permits users to: Please note: users enrolled as
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Integration between RISIS and Blackboard will automatically create IC columns and Blackboard submission points in your courses. However, the integration will only run for modules which have been flagged as ready by an administrator in RISIS. Contents on this page Flagging modules as ready In RISIS go to Working with Modules > Modules Data > Flag
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You can access data and various reports under the Analytics tab on your Blackboard course, to find out more about your students’ performance, and level of engagement and interaction with your course. The Analytics tab is on the navigation bar at the top of your course page: Under Course Activity, you’ll see a list of
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A Document, in Ultra, is a way of organising materials on a course or organisation. They can be used in conjunction with Learning Modules and Folders. See the guide Content Containers in Blackboard Learn Ultra for more details. Documents are comparable to Items in original Blackboard but can been used more like a webpage. You
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When moving your Tests from Blackboard original to Blackboard Ultra it may be cleaner to copy Test Question into Ultra and then create new Tests in Ultra using those questions. This is the case if your test uses unsupported functions such as the self-assessment option. This is a two step process: Create a question pool
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You can monitor a student’s participation in your Blackboard course using the Student Activity log, which you can access through the Analytics tab on the Blackboard Navigation bar, and clicking on a student’s name to enter the Student Dashboard: Once in the Student Dashboard, click the Activity Log tab: You can see the following information
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