Collection of Blackboard Learn Ultra Guides.
Blackboard Organisations What are Blackboard Organisations and when are they used? How are students enrolled into Organisations? Requesting an Organisation Organisation design: good practice guidance Update 2023/24: All Organisations are now in Learn Ultra. For timeline and rationale details see the Ultra Project page. For migration help see Ultra Organisations Quick Start guide. 1. What […]
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Introduction Academic Liaison Librarians are assigned admin privileges in Blackboard, providing you with the ability to self-enrol on courses within the School or Department with which you work. The privileges have been granted in order that you can view and, if necessary, create course content advise module staff on copyright compliance in relation to content
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Blackboard Learn Ultra navigation provides a modern, responsive and interactive interface, enabling users to get updates from their courses, and to easily access courses and organisations. TEL Tips The Home page has links to sources of help, and is also where we’ll alert you to new features in Blackboard, or when systems are undergoing maintenance
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Personalise your notification settings You can control the notifications you receive from Blackboard, whether in the Activity Stream inside Blackboard, via email, or via the mobile app. We strongly encourage you, and your students, to personalise your notifications to suit your individual preferences. You can do this either by clicking on the settings icon in
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As an Instructor, you can create Calendar events for your course, which will then display to your students. Most course items with an associated date will appear in the Calendar, however scheduled Collaborate sessions do not appear. Students should be advised not to rely on their Blackboard Calendar as there may be inaccuracies. For example,
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Quick steps – how to sign in? Forgotten password or login details? Please go to “Reset your password” page for guidance, or send an email to dts@reading.ac.uk for help. Detailed guide with screenshots below Step 1. To log in, go to https://www.bb.reading.ac.uk/ and click on the “Sign in with Microsoft“ button. Step 2. Enter your
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As a Programme Administrator you can be granted a Blackboard system admin role, at either School or Department level, which allows you to search for, view, and enrol yourself onto any courses and organisations in that School or Department. The same role is suitable for Senior Programme Administrators, Programmes Managers and Support Centre Managers. This
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Introduction For the most part teaching, learning and assessment takes place at module level, and Blackboard reflects that. However Blackboard also allows you to provide students with information at a Programme level. This could include general information relevant to all students on a Programme Programme Handbooks details of Module options for the coming year information
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Introduction The move to Semesters necessitates some changes in Blackboard course names and codes so you know which course you are looking at – primarily the need to show in which semester a module runs. Course names and codes in Blackboard are based on information in RISIS. Course codes are constructed using: What is an
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Introduction Most Blackboard courses are linked directly to a single programme or module in RISIS e.g. the RISIS module EN2CRI Critical Issues is represented by Blackboard course EN2CRI-24-5_S1 Critical Issues (2024/25 Semester 1) the RISIS programme UFMICRO BSc Microbiology is represented by Blackboard course UFMICRO-24-5PR BSc Microbiology (2024/25) As long as they are scheduled to
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