Learn more about our new Institution Page and Base Navigation in Blackboard Ultra from Rita Vela, Bb Consultant, who gave two training sessions for Davenport.  Each training contains the basics but depending on questions, other tips on using the interface emerged in each session.

Create Content

• Create Content
  • ULTRA Create Content | ULTRA Video - Create Content (3 min)

Add Files

Consider

Assignments

• Create and Edit Assignments
  • ULTRA Create an Assignment | ULTRA Video - Create an Assignment (1 min)
  • Edit, Reorder, and Delete Assignments
    • ULTRA Edit, Reorder, and Delete Assignments

Rubrics

Create Rubrics

• Create a Rubric | Video - Create a Rubric (1 min)
  • ULTRA Create a Rubric | ULTRA Video - Create a Rubric (2 min)

Associating Rubrics with Gradable Content

• Associate a Rubric with Gradable Content | Video - Associate a Rubric with Gradable Content (1.5 min)
  • ULTRA Associate Rubrics to Assessments | ULTRA Video - Associate Rubrics (1 min)

More with Rubrics

• Student View of Content with a Rubric
• Manage Rubrics
  • ULTRA Manage Rubrics
• ULTRA Keyboard Navigation

• Get Started with SafeAssign
• Blackboard Learn (Enable SafeAssign) | Video - Use SafeAssign (4 min)
  • ULTRA Blackboard Learn (Enable SafeAssign) | ULTRA Video - Use SafeAssign (1 min)
• DirectSubmit (Run Paper Through SafeAssign, but not Assignment)
• Originality Report
  • Multiple Attachments and Attempts
  • Interpret SafeAssign Scores
• Grade with SafeAssign
  • ULTRA Grade with SafeAssign
• How do I add SafeAssign after a student submits the assignment?
• Other SafeAssign FAQs
• What students see when you have selected SafeAssign
  • When submitting a paper
  • Viewing Originality Report (if you let them view it)

Create Tests and Surveys

• Test and Survey Basics
• Create a Test | Video - Create a Test (1.5 min)
  • Add Test or Survey to Content Area - With Original Blackboard you create the test in a test area and then deploy it in the desired content area. With Ultra, you create your test in the content area and don’t have to move it.
  • ULTRA Create a Test | ULTRA Video - Create a Test (1.5 min)

More with Tests & Surveys

• Add Questions to an Existing Test or Survey
• ULTRA Add Questions to a Test
• Reorder Questions
• ULTRA Reorder Questions, Text, and Files
• ULTRA What do Students See?

• Create Forums | Video - Create Forums (2 min)
  • View a Forum
  • Allow Email Alerts for New Discussion Posts
• Create Threads

• ULTRA Access Blackboard Collaborate | ULTRA Video - Blackboard Collaborate (3 min)
• ULTRA Course Room - a meeting room already set up and ready for the students in your course to meet or you to meet with them
• Create and Edit Sessions
• Blackboard Chat

• Grade Columns
  • ULTRA Views of the Gradebook
• Assignment Inline Grading | Video - Inline Grading (1.5 min)
  • ULTRA Assignment Inline Grading | ULTRA Video - Inline Grading (1.5 min)
• Grade with Rubrics | Video - Grade with Rubrics (1 min)
  • ULTRA Grade with a Rubric | ULTRA Video - Grade with a Rubric (1 min)
  Locate and select point values when grading with an embedded rubric in the Grade Center.