Key Topic: Add Content to Ultra Courses
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Course Management
Collection of guides: Course settings, content, permissions, groups, and course tools etc.. These guides are applicable to Blackboard Organisations as well.
Create Folders
Features of Folder Folders are a way organising materials on an Ultra course or organisation. They can be used in conjunction with Learning Modules and Ultra Documents. See the guide Content Containers in Blackboard Learn Ultra for more details. Create a Folder Step 1: Go to the point inside a Learning Module, or on the
Create a Learning Module
Features of Learning Modules Learning Modules are a way of organising materials on an Ultra course or organisation. They can be used in conjunction with Folders and Ultra Documents. See the guide Content Containers in Blackboard Learn Ultra for more details. The course template for modules incorporates a number of Learning Modules, you are unlikely
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Key Topic: Learning Activities
Explore guides Blackboard Ultra tools Available via the Ultra ‘Create’ menu: Third party Share via link/embed or content market: Microsoft 365 apps Share via link/embed:
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Course Banner
What are Course Banners and why would I use one? By default, Blackboard will provide a thumbnail image for your course or organisation, which displays when users view the Courses or Organisations page as tiles, rather than as a list. Please note that this stock image will not be able to be used as a
Adding images to a Learning Module
You can provide some additional customisation to your course by uploading an image as a Learning Module thumbnail. Adding images can increase interest and engagement with your materials, as well as helping users to identify relevant content more easily. Images are not part of the course template (see How to use the course template) but
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Using Groups in Learn Ultra
Groups on Blackboard Learn Ultra allow you to create opportunities for student collaboration with assessment and activities. Groups can also allow instructors to administrate their Blackboard courses in different ways for groups of students, or apply release conditions to content. Creating groups Importing and exporting groups Using groups with assignments Using groups with content and
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Manage and enrol users
Students enrolled on a module in RISIS (the University’s student records system) will automatically be enrolled in the appropriate Blackboard course. This means that normally you should not need to manually add students to your courses in Blackboard – but please note this automatic process runs once a day (overnight) and at the start of
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Add Content from the Content Collection
The Blackboard Content Collection is a content management system which allows you to upload files to a central location, then make these accessible to students on multiple courses or organisations – updating the file in the Content Collection automatically updates the information visible to students on those courses and organisations. Adding files from the Content
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Content Market: Add Third Party Tools to an Ultra Course
On a Blackboard Learn Ultra course all the third party tools can be found in the Content Market page. These are tools that you would have access via the assessments or tools menu in Blackboard Learn original, Turnitin Assignment tool, Gradescope, YuJa, McGraw Hill, Maple TA and Talis. For some of these third party tools
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