by Christine Monnier | Sep 16, 2024 | Blackboard, Blackboard Ultra, Christine Monnier, Do One Thing in Ultra, Featured, Guest Blogger
There are lots of different way to provide feedback in Ultra (I counted four so far). In this post, I want to show how to set up automated feedback. Automated Feedback Automatic feedback is something you would set up when you create a test. This might be especially...
by Christine Monnier | Sep 11, 2024 | Blackboard, Blackboard Ultra, Christine Monnier, Featured, Guest Blogger
It seems there is still some confusion about the plan to transition to Ultra so I thought I’d write a post about that, with lots of links to the relevant resources. Hopefully, this will clear things up for everybody. So first things first, the official launch...
by Christine Monnier | Sep 3, 2024 | Blackboard, Blackboard Ultra, Christine Monnier, Featured, Guest Blogger
So I may have mentioned before my, shall we say, profound skepticism, regarding things like ChatGPT and other similar tools, incorrectly named Artificial Intelligence. Let me count the ways: These tools are an environmental disaster: “The AI Boom Could Use a...
by Christine Monnier | Aug 29, 2024 | Blackboard, Blackboard Ultra, Christine Monnier, Featured, Guest Blogger
Don’t Freak Out is my new blogging series where I will be showcasing upcoming features in Blackboard Ultra that you don’t see yet but are coming, so you’ll know… and won’t freak out when you open Blackboard one day and things are slightly...
by Christine Monnier | Aug 29, 2024 | Blackboard, Blackboard Ultra, Christine Monnier, Do One Thing in Ultra, Featured, Guest Blogger
A thing so easy to do it does not require a video. Check it out: Go to your gradebook. Open the gradebook settings. Scroll until you reach Students Visibility and toggle on or off (it’s off by default). Happy dance. More information...
by Christine Monnier | Aug 27, 2024 | Blackboard, Blackboard Ultra, Christine Monnier, Featured, Features, Guest Blogger
When the college decided to move to Blackboard Ultra, we expected a few benefits. One was that we would no longer experience the first day of the semester meltdown that we all so enjoyed when we were trying to show our courses to our students on the first day of...
