If you are new to Ultra, we recommend you attend our training workshops and/or complete asynchronous training available on our Training and support page.
We are currently updating our guidance for Ultra and you can already find a variety of new or updated guides on our website, including in Blackboard, Re/Play, etc. We also have a Blackboard screencasts collection of short videos showing you how to do a variety of tasks in Blackboard Ultra.
In this page, we have collected some of these guides to help you get started with learning Ultra and setting up your courses for the next academic year.
Get familiar with Ultra
See what a Blackboard Ultra course looks like, as well as some differences in terminology compared to Blackboard Original which was used until recently. You can find your courses in the same way as before, but see how to distinguish between Ultra and Original courses.
- Blackboard Ultra Orientation (Video, 5 mins)
- Find and Manage your Courses
- Set up your Blackboard Profile (opens Blackboard Help pages)
- Terminology in Blackboard Ultra
Design your course and manage content
See how to organise your course using Learning Modules, Folders and Documents and how to keep it clear and consistent with the help of the included template. Learn how to add content and activities like Re/Play videos and knowledge checks, how to improve accessibility, as well as how to check your course from a student’s perspective and base release of content on specific criteria.
- Use Blackboard course templates (Video, 2 mins)
- Organise and customise your course space
- Add content and embed resources
- Copying content between Ultra courses
- Reusing content from Original in Ultra
- Personalised content release and access
- Improve your course’s accessibility using Blackboard Ally
Manage users in your course
See how enrolments of students, staff and external users are managed, how you can add a colleague to your course and how to split students into Groups for activities, assessment or content release.
- Managing Blackboard enrolments
- Enrolling and Removing Colleagues from a Course
- Create and manage Groups in Blackboard
Interact with students
See the various ways in which you can communicate with students, enable them to discuss with you and each other, as well as view their engagement with your course.
- Post an Announcement in Blackboard
- Send Messages in Blackboard
- Tracking student progress with the unit content
- Using the Conversations tool (opens Blackboard Help pages)
- Using Discussions (opens Blackboard Help pages)
Plan, manage and mark assessments
See how to plan assessments on Blackboard and use the relevant workflows to manage and mark them.