Blackboard Ultra Quick Start Guides

Ultra Getting Started↗︎

• A Quick Start↗︎

• What Is “Ultra”?↗︎

• What Is Blackboard Learn?↗︎

• Where Do I Start?↗︎

• Browser Support↗︎

• Personal Settings↗︎

• Profile↗︎

• Find Your Courses↗︎

• Navigate Inside a Course↗︎

• Navigate Outside a Course↗︎

Interact with Students↗︎

• Roster↗︎

• Announcements↗︎

• Messages↗︎

• Best Practices↗︎

• Discussions↗︎

• Conversations↗︎

• Groups↗︎

• Journals↗︎

Ultra Course Content↗︎

• Create Content↗︎

• Reuse Content↗︎

• Release Content↗︎

• Batch Edit↗︎

• Mobile-Friendly Courses↗︎

• Best Practices↗︎

• Content Collection↗︎

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

• Grade submissions submitted offline Download assignments↗︎

• Video: Download assessment submissions↗︎

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

• Reuse questions↗︎

• Video: Reuse questions↗︎

• Use question banks↗︎

• Add question pools↗︎

Secure tests

• Use access codes↗︎

• Respondus Lockdown Browser

Grade tests and surveys

• See what needs grading↗︎

• Give feedback on submission attempts↗︎

• View and markup student comments and files↗︎

• Grade with SafeAssign↗︎

• Grade a test with multiple attempts↗︎

• Give full credit↗︎

• Clear attempts and add exceptions↗︎

• Change grade on assessment questions↗︎

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

• Update gradebook settings↗︎

• Calculate grades↗︎

• Exempt attendance↗︎

• Make accommodations↗︎

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↗︎

Change grades

• Override grades↗︎

• Change due dates↗︎

• Download a grade history record of changes↗︎

• Change points earned on test questions↗︎