by Christina Sabo | Jun 24, 2025 | Blackboard, Blackboard Ultra, Featured
Learning Technologies has gotten a number of Blackboard tickets in recent weeks related to caching issues with the Blackboard site. If you are running into problems with elements disappearing, items not displaying properly, or just general weirdness, you may just need...
by Learning Tech Dev | Jun 11, 2025 | Blackboard, Blackboard Ultra, Featured
One of the things that you’ll notice as you transition to Ultra is that some of the features of Original have different names in Ultra. To reduce confusion over this new terminology, we have a summer series to help you learn the new lingo that comes along with the...
by Christine Monnier | Feb 11, 2025 | Blackboard, Blackboard Ultra, Christine Monnier, Featured, Guest Blogger
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 generative AI in their work, they use less critical thinking, which...
by Christine Monnier | Nov 18, 2024 | Blackboard, Blackboard Ultra, Christine Monnier, Do One Thing in Ultra, Ed Tech Tools, Featured, Guest Blogger, Integrations, 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 the total point value for attendance. It is set at 100 and...
by Christine Monnier | Oct 21, 2024 | Blackboard, Blackboard Ultra, Christine Monnier, Featured, Guest Blogger
And by that, I mean Achievements. Achievements were one of the features that had been airlocked between Original and Ultra. Well, no longer. They’re back and you can see them in your top-level menu. And they’re also kinda different from what they were in...
by Christine Monnier | Oct 3, 2024 | Blackboard, Christine Monnier, Ed Tech Tools, Featured, Guest Blogger
As you may or may not know, Flipgrid or Flip is no more. For those of you who don’t know or didn’t use it, Flip was a video discussion service where student would shoot short videos and share them on the platform. Other users could respond with their own...
