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Blackboard Ultra How-To Tutorials

Blackboard Guide for Instructors (Link)  

Video Tutorials for Instructors (Video)

Zoom Integration Setup for Kaltura and Blackboard (Link)

How to Enable Third-Party Cookies in Your Browser (Link)

Blackboard Start the Semester Checklist (Link)

Blackboard Mid-Semester Checklist (Link)

Blackboard End of Semester Tasks for Courses (Link)

Blackboard Access

  • How to Login to Blackboard (Link)
  • How to Make Your Course Available to Students (Link)
  • Changing Course Start and End Dates (Link)

Main Course Interface & Course Content

  • Course Navigation Guide (Link)  
  • How to Preview Your Course as a Student (Link)  
  • Copy an Ultra Course (Video) (Link)
  • How to Granularly Copy Course Items (Video) (Link)
  • Check Course Size (Link)
  • How to Batch Edit Content (Video) (Link)  
  • How to Work with the Text Editor (Video) (Link)  
  • Supported File Types (Link)  
  • How to Remove Unused Files from Your Course (Link)

Create Course Content

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

Ally Accessibility Checker

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

Communication Tools

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

Discussion Boards

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

Assignments

  • How to Create an Assignment (Link)  
  • Downloading Assignment Files (Video) (Link)  
  • How to Grade Assignments Using Flex Grading (Link)
  • How to Set Assignment Exceptions (Video) (Link)  
  • Ultra Rubrics (Link)
  • How to Copy Rubrics from Blackboard Original to Blackboard Ultra (Link)
  • SafeAssign
    • About SafeAssign (Link)  
    • Setting Up a SafeAssign Assignment (Link)
    • Grading with SafeAssign (Link)  

Tests & Quizzes

  • How to Create a Test (Video) (Link)  
  • How to Add Questions to a Test (Link)  
  • How to Add Question Pools to a Test (Video) (Link)  
  • Setting Test Options (Link)  
  • Showing Test Results and Feedback to Students (Link)  
  • Blackboard Ultra Accommodations vs Exceptions (Link)
  • How to Set Test Exceptions (Video) (Link)  
  • How to Add Accommodations to Students (Video) (Link)  
  • Question Analysis (Link)  
  • How to Copy Test Questions from Blackboard Original to Blackboard Ultra (Link)

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 (Link) 
    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)  
  • How to Set Up a Proctored Exam: Respondus Monitor Plus Additional Resources (Link)  
  • Activate Respondus Lockdown Browser After Course Copy (Link)

Gradebook

  • How to Access the Gradebook (Link)  
  • How to Grade Discussions (Video) (Link)  
  • How to Grade a Test (Link)  
  • Downloading Grades to a Spreadsheet (Link)  
  • Creating Manual Grade Columns (Link)  
  • Adding a Weighted Column (Link)  
  • Adding the Overall Grade (Link)  
  • How to Grade Tests Using Flex Grading (Link)
  • How to Grade Assignments Using Flex Grading (Link)
  • Ultra Rubrics (Link)
  • How to Copy Rubrics from Blackboard Original to Blackboard Ultra (Link)
  • Achievements (Link)

Organizations

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

Collaborate Ultra

  • 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)  

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

  • How to Configure the Overall Grade for Grade Import (Video) (Link)
  • Importing Grades into GUS (Video) (Link)

Course Groups

  • About Course Groups (Link)  
  • How to Create Course Groups (Link)  
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