Please see the following Blackboard Ultra Quick Start Guides provided by Blackboard.
Getting Started
Interact with Students
Course Content
Assignments
Ultra Assignments↗︎
Create assignments
- Create an assignment↗︎
- Video: Create an assignment↗︎
- Define assignment settings and options↗︎
- Add text and files to assignments↗︎
- Add a timer to assignments↗︎
- Allow multiple attempts↗︎
- Create group assignments↗︎
- Create offline assignments such as oral presentations or lab work↗︎
Assignment grading options
- Enable anonymous grading↗︎
- Enable parallel grading↗︎
- Allow self and peer assessments↗︎
- Add rubrics↗︎
- Use SafeAssign↗︎
- Setup the gradebook↗︎
Grade assignments
- Assign grades↗︎
- Video: Grading assignments↗︎
- Give feedback↗︎
- Mark up submissions↗︎
- Video: Bb Annotate overview↗︎
- Grade an assignment with multiple attempts↗︎
- Grade anonymous submissions↗︎
- Evaluate self and peer assessments↗︎
- Grade group assignments↗︎
Grade offline
Tests and Pools
Ultra Tests and Pools↗︎
Create tests and surveys
- Create a test↗︎
- Video: Create a test↗︎
- Define test details and options↗︎
- Add questions to a test↗︎
- Control how tests and grades appear to students↗︎
- Make exceptions↗︎
Question types
- Calculated formula↗︎
- Calculated numeric↗︎
- Essay↗︎
- Fill in multiple blanks↗︎
- Fill in the blank↗︎
- Matching↗︎
- Multiple answer↗︎
- Multiple choice↗︎
- True or false↗︎
Reuse questions
Secure tests
- Use access codes↗︎
- Respondus Lockdown Browser
Grade tests and surveys
Gradebook
Ultra Gradebook↗︎
About the gradebook
- Video: Gradebook overview↗︎
- How to find the gradebook↗︎
- View gradeable items↗︎
- View student engagement↗︎
- Send messages from the gradebook↗︎
- Search the gradebook↗︎
- Grade columns↗︎
Add items to the gradebook
- Create assignments↗︎
- Add tests↗︎
- Take attendance↗︎
- Automatically created grade items↗︎
- Manually add grade items↗︎
Set up gradebook settings and options
Grade student submissions
- Assign grades↗︎
- Grade offline↗︎
- Grade assignments↗︎
- Grade tests↗︎
- Grade attendance↗︎
- Grade all submissions by assessment↗︎
- Grade all assignments and tests by student↗︎
- Assign automatic zeros↗︎