Blackboard Ultra How-To

Blackboard Guide for Instructors (Link)  external site icon

Video Tutorials for Instructors (Video)

Blackboard Access

  • How to Login to Blackboard (Link)
  • How to Make Your Course Available to Students (Link)

Main Course Interface and Course Content

  • Course Navigation Guide (Video) (Link)  external site icon
  • How to Preview Your Course as a Student (Video) (Link)  external site icon
  • Copy Course Content (Link)
  • Check Course Size (Link)
  • How to Batch Edit Content (Video) (Link)  external site icon
  • End of Semester Tasks for Courses (Link)
  • How to Work with the Text Editor (Video) (Link)  external site icon
  • Supported File Types (Link)  external site icon

Create Course Content

  • Course Content Items (Link)
  • Containers for Content
    • Folders vs Learning Modules (Link)
    • How to Create Learning Modules (Video) (Link)  external site icon
    • How to Create Folders (Link)
  • How to Create Documents (Video) (Link)  external site icon
  • How to Create Links (Link)  external site icon
  • How to Upload Files (Link)

Ally Accessibility Checker

  • Ally Help for Instructors (Link)  external site icon
  • Ally QuickStart Guide for Instructors (Link)  external site icon
  • Course Accessibility Report Guide (Link)  external site icon
  • How to Find the Course Accessibility Report (Link)

Communication Tools

  • How to Send a Course Announcement (Video) (Link)  external site icon
  • How to Send Course Messages (Video) (Link)  external site icon
  • How to Send an Email from Your Course (Link)  external site icon

Discussion Boards

  • How to Set Up and Interact within a Discussion Board (Link)  external site icon
  • How to Grade Discussions (Link)  external site icon
  • Collecting and Printing Discussion Board Posts
  • View Discussion Performance and Analytics (Video) (Link)  external site icon

Assignments

  • How to Create an Assignment (Video) (Link)  external site icon
  • How to Grade an Assignment (Video) (Link)  external site icon
  • Downloading Assignment Files (Video) (Link)  external site icon
  • SafeAssign
    • About SafeAssign (Link)  external site icon
    • Setting Up a SafeAssign Assignment (Link)
    • How to View Originality Report (Link)  external site icon

Tests and Quizzes

  • How to Create a Test (Video) (Link)  external site icon
  • How to Add Questions to a Test (Link)  external site icon
  • How to Add Question Pools to a Test (Video) (Link)  external site icon
  • Setting Test Options (Link)  external site icon
  • Showing Test Results and Feedback to Students (Link)  external site icon
  • Blackboard Ultra Accommodations vs Exceptions (Link)
  • Setting Test Availability Exceptions (Video) (Link)  external site icon
  • Setting Test Accommodations (Video) (Link)  external site icon
  • Question Analysis (Link)  external site icon

    Respondus

    • Respondus 4.0
    • How to Download and License Respondus 4.0 (Link)
    • How to Connect Respondus 4.0 to Your Blackboard Course (Link)
    • How to Create a Test Using Respondus (Video)
    • Formatting Questions for Respondus Import (Linkexternal site icon  See Appendix page 49.
    • Exporting Respondus Exams Locally (Link)
    • Publishing Respondus Files to Blackboard (Link)
    • Retrieving and Printing Exams Using Respondus (Link)
    • Respondus Lockdown Browser
    • How to Set Up a Proctored Exam: Respondus Lockdown Browser Plus Additional Resources (Video) (Link)  external site icon
    • How to Set Up a Proctored Exam: Respondus Monitor Plus Additional Resources (Link)  external site icon

Grade Center

  • How to Access the Grade Center (Link)  external site icon
  • How to Grade Discussions (Video) (Link)  external site icon
  • How to Grade an Assignment (Video) (Link)  external site icon
  • How to Grade a Test (Link)  external site icon
  • Downloading Grades to a Spreadsheet (Link)  external site icon
  • Creating Manual Grade Columns (Link)  external site icon
  • Adding a Weighted Column (Link)  external site icon
  • Adding the Overall Grade (Link)  external site icon
  • How to Set an External Grade Column (PDF)

Organizations

  • Enroll a Single User into an Organization (Link)
  • Organization Request Form (Link)

Collaborate Ultra: How To

  • Features and Benefits (Link)
  • Collaborate Ultra: Important Things You Should Know (Video) (Link)
  • How to Set Up a Session (Link)
  • How to Share Content (Link)
  • How to Locate a Recording Link (Link)
  • How to Download a Recording (Link)
  • How to View a Session Report (Video) (Link)
  • Transferring Collaborate Ultra Recordings to a New Course (Link)
  • Using Breakout Groups with Collaborate Ultra (Link)  external site icon

Enterprise Survey

  • How to Create a Survey (Link)
  • How to Deploy a Survey (Link)
  • How to Analyze Survey Results (Link)
  • Naming Convention Guide (Link)

Grade Import

  • Configure your Column for Grade Import (Video) (PDF)
  • Importing Grades into GUS (Video) (PDF)

Course Groups

  • About Course Groups (Video) (Link)  external site icon
  • How to Create Course Groups (Link)  external site icon