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...
by Christine Monnier | Sep 27, 2024 | Blackboard, Blackboard Ultra, Christine Monnier, Featured, Guest Blogger
That’s right. As I posted before, October 1st is the official launch date of our Ultra transition. Be sure to drop by the LT office that day to get some goodies. Also, That’s right. Not only are you all getting an Ultra shell in your development area in...
by Christine Monnier | Sep 19, 2024 | Blackboard, Blackboard Ultra, Christine Monnier, Do One Thing in Ultra, Featured, Guest Blogger
There are actually several ways to give feedback in Ultra. I have already covered how to set up some automated feedback. In this post, I want to look at the ways we can give manual / individual feedback. The type of feedback you can give depends on whether you are...
