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Get Some Ultra Flair: Email Badges Now Available
If you’ve made the switch to Ultra and you want to show off your super cool Ultra-ness to everyone, you can download one of these two badges for your email! We have them in both white and black,...
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Get Some PDH for Halloween
Do you need PDH? (Don’t we all) Do you love Halloween? Of course, you do. (Train to Busan is still the best zombie movie ever made, don’t @ me) The LT office has a special Halloween offering: earn one...
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Do One Thing in Ultra: Set Your Office Hours in the Calendar
I know we all post our office hours in MyAccess but how many of you think our students check them over there? Personally, I always create my syllabi way in ahead of time so I put my OH at TBA because...
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Do One Thing in Ultra: Taking Attendance with Qwickly
I have already blogged about the attendance module in Ultra and how to set up attendance in your gradebook. You can find the post here. There is one BIG problem with using that tool: you cannot change...
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Do You Need PDH Before The End of The Semester?
If so, the Learning Tech office has two Ultra asynchronous trainings available for PDH: Blackboard Ultra Basics, which is a broad introduction and overview of Ultra. This is a good place to start if...
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End of Semester Recap
Here we are, end of Fall 2024, almost a year away from the completion of our switch to Ultra, I thought I’d do a recap of all the ground I covered so far, in my position of faculty chair of online...
View ArticleThis Winter Break, Get Cozy with Ultra!
Winter break is the perfect time to stay inside and start working in Ultra! We’ve got loads of resources for you to learn about Ultra, get support, and work at your own pace without having to venture...
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You Asked, Learning Tech Delivered
When the Learning Technologies office surveyed faculty about the type of training people wanted, quite a few of you answered that you’d like training offered during winter break (both before and after...
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Beyond Ultra – What’s Next?
I have been pestering y’all to move to Ultra and I will continue to do that until January 2026 when our conversion will be complete. So you have to look forward to a whole year of me being annoying...
View ArticleFind LT at Kickoff!
Looking to learn more about Ultra? Find us at Kickoff! We’ll be leading a variety of sessions on Ultra as well as hosting a special guest, Wade Weichel, who will be here from Anthology to talk about...
View ArticleRegister Now for Ultra Spring Training
Are you ready to get into the “swing” of things? Hit a home run by taking one of our Ultra spring training sessions. We’ll be covering the fundamentals as well as some more advanced techniques! Check...
View ArticleNew On Demand Course: Converting Your Course to Blackboard Ultra
If you like to work on your own, we’ve got great news: we have a new asynchronous online course to help you get started with Ultra! We’ve just added Converting Your Course to Blackboard Ultra to our...
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Do You Need The Proverbial Kick in The Pants?
So you’ve taken the Ultra training and everything. But now, you need the proverbial kick in the pants to actually get going on converting your own courses. Or you haven’t really updated your NET / VCM...
View ArticleThis Valentine’s Day, Fall in Love with Ultra
Will you be our Ultra Valentine? Inspired by Christine Monnier’s “Do One Thing in Ultra” blog posts, try a few simple things to help you fall in love with the Ultra upgrade.Come when you can but allow...
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Getting The Most Out of The Ultra Calendar
What am I reading? This article from 404 Media (one of my favorite tech publication): A new paper from researchers at Microsoft and Carnegie Mellon University finds that as humans increasingly rely on...
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Come Mind Map with Me and Get PDH (session added)
Y’all know mind maps are my thing but I have never formally offered workshops on this. This changes today! As you know, if you read Jenn Kelley’s emails (and of course you do!), I am offering a...
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Do One Thing in Ultra: Set a Release Condition Based on Submission
Yup, Blackboard brought back a thing that had been removed in Ultra. Care to guess what it is? (Some of you asked me about it a while back) Yup, it’s the conditional release (in original) or release...
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