Blackboard Learn Ultra

Collection of Blackboard Learn Ultra Guides.

Blackboard Learn: Guest access to Courses

The role of the ‘Guest’ role is not supported in Blackboard Ultra courses and cannot be used to provide access to a course for staff or students. Student ‘Guest attendance’ at a module The Policy statement on non-contributory modules and guest attendance (Guide to Policies and Procedures for Teaching and Learning, Section 7: Personal Development) […]

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EMA Integration: On-time and Post-deadline submission points

When managing Turnitin and Blackboard assignments, some Schools prefer to have separate submission points: As part of the EMA Integration, rules for the creation of on-time and post-deadline submission points are programmed into RISIS. This has been done at Departmental level – so a consistent approach is taken on modules across the whole Department (and

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Merged Courses and Supplementary Courses

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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Supported internet browsers and requirements

Blackboard supports latest versions of Google Chrome, Safari, Edge, and Firefox. However you may experience issues when accessing third party applications (e.g. Turnitin, Gradescope, YuJa and Talis Reading lists) from within Blackboard or when logging into Blackboard using Single sign on. Most of those issues could be due to blocked third party cookies or pop-ups,

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