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Blogging Learning Tech: Announcements and Messages
Well, sooner or later, we have to talk to our students, don’t we? There are lots of ways to communicate with students, individually, or as a group within Ultra. Announcements and messages are the main...
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Blogging Learning Tech: Tests in Ultra
Tests and assignments are features that all of us use in one form or another. Ultra gives a lot of options that I am still working my way through but I think I have a good handle on the basics, so I...
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Blogging Learning Tech: Assignments and First Steps with The Gradebook in Ultra
Creating an assignment in Ultra starts the now-familiar way. Click on the + button where you want to create your assignment, and click Create: Then, select the assignment option: After that,...
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Blogging Learning Tech: Grading Open Test Questions in Ultra
Well, at some point, we all have to start grading. In list view in the gradebook, there is a grading status column that pretty much tells you where you stand. Different grading statuses may show like...
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Blogging Learning Tech: Inline Grading and First Steps with Analytics in Ultra
In a previous post, we looked at setting up tests and assignments in Ultra, and grading test submissions in the gradebook. Grading assignments is pretty much the same thing. You navigate to the...
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Blogging Learning Tech: Attendance in Ultra
A propos of nothing: And yes, it’s real. Anyhoo, there are different ways that you can set up your attendance in Ultra, depending on whether or not your gradebook is already populated. If your...
View ArticleZoom for Synchronous Teaching with Blackboard: A Faculty Transition Workshop
The Collaborate Ultra web-conferencing platform will be removed from Blackboard at the conclusion of the Spring 2024 term and Zoom has been selected as the optimal replacement. In anticipation of this...
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Blogging Learning Tech: Whatever Happened to the Adaptive Release?
Adaptive release is one area where I find the Original course view to be superior to Ultra. I don’t know how many of us use adaptive release, but if you have used it, you know it allows you to be...
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Blogging Learning Tech: The (Ultra) Story So Far
I have been blogging about my experience with the Ultra Courseview (UCV) for 7 weeks now. That’s about a dozen posts covering the basics of the UCV, as I have experienced them in my own courses. But...
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Blogging Learning Tech – Let’s Talk About Padlet
Let’s take a break from Ultra for a second here. We need to talk about Padlet. There is actually A LOT to talk about, when it comes to Padlet, so this is only the first post in a series. And I would...
View ArticleSummer 2024 Professional Development Opportunities
If you’re looking to do some learning on ed tech this summer, here are some great places to do it! LT Workshops and Courses To see what we’ll be offering this summer, check out our full calendar of...
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Fun With The Ultra Gradebook
After working with the Ultra gradebook for almost a full semester, I thought I’d share with you guys some of the lessons I’ve learned so far. Lesson the first: always check what you are doing in...
View ArticleSpring 2024 End of Term Support
It’s almost summer, but first you have to wrap up those Spring courses! Here are some support resources to get you through all those end of term assessments, projects, grades submissions and more!...
View ArticleSpring 2024: Final Grades Support
Summer break is so close! Time to get those tests and projects graded and final grades submitted. If you’ve hit a roadblock or just need a refresher, here are some general resources that can help you...
View ArticleDo One Thing in Ultra: Add a Course Banner
As you all probably know by now, there isn’t a lot of visual customization that can be done in Ultra. But there is one thing you can do to personalize the look of your course (and for me, to...
View ArticleSummer 2024 Updates and Getting Started
Helpful Resources for Getting Started Here are links to some helpful resources that will help you get everything ready to go for the semester. How to Export/ Import a Course Software Recommendations...
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Do One Thing in Ultra: Import a Test Bank
The only third-party feature I use from publishers is the test bank. So one of the first things I learned to do in Ultra was import my textbooks’ test banks. It is also easy to do in Ultra. The video...
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Do One Thing in Ultra: Create a Learning Module
In Ultra, learning modules are the basic building blocks of your courses. You can fill them with all sorts of content, from regular documents, to tests, to assignments, to third-party integrations,...
View ArticleRegister Now for Ultra Space Camp!
Are you ready to take your Ultra knowledge to “out of this world” levels this summer? Sign up now for one of our Ultra Space Camp missions! We’ll be offering them all summer long as a way for you to...
View ArticleTips for Using the Blackboard Grade Center Like a Pro
The Grade Center can sometimes be a complicated tool to use in Blackboard simply because there are so many options and settings to choose from! But there are a few things you can do to ensure that you...
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