by Christine Monnier | Apr 24, 2025 | Blackboard Ultra, Christine Monnier, Featured, Guest Blogger
A while back, I wrote a post about what, exactly, the plan was for our transition to Ultra. It all started with a pilot only a year ago. Then a lot of training from the Learning Technologies department. And, for some of us, a progressive transition to Ultra. The key...
by Christine Monnier | Mar 5, 2025 | Blackboard Ultra, Christine Monnier, Featured, Guest Blogger, Video, YuJa
Consider this post my attempt to get y’all to stop using YouTube for your videos. Someone asked me if it was possible to create playlists in YuJa. The answer is yes. Follow along, Log into YuJa. First, you will need to create your playlist. To do that, click on...
by Christine Monnier | Feb 18, 2025 | Blackboard Ultra, Christine Monnier, Do One Thing in Ultra, Featured, Guest Blogger
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 condition (in Ultra) based on submission. For those of you...
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 Learning Tech Dev | Feb 4, 2025 | Blackboard Ultra, Featured, Training
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 at least 45 minutes to complete four activities of your choice and...
by Christine Monnier | Feb 3, 2025 | Blackboard Ultra, Christine Monnier, Ed Tech Tools, Featured, Professional Development
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 / HYB courses in a while, and you also need a...
