by Christine Monnier | Mar 7, 2024 | Blackboard, Blackboard Ultra, Christine Monnier, Featured, Guest Blogger
Adaptive release is one area where I find the Original course view to be superior to Ultra. I don’t know how many of us use adaptive release, but if you have used it, you know it allows you to be pretty granular on to release your content, even with the basic...
by Christine Monnier | Mar 4, 2024 | Blackboard, Blackboard Ultra, Christine Monnier, Featured, Guest Blogger
A propos of nothing: And yes, it’s real. Anyhoo, there are different ways that you can set up your attendance in Ultra, depending on whether or not your gradebook is already populated. If your gradebook is still empty, just click on the gradebook tab and you...
by Christine Monnier | Feb 29, 2024 | Blackboard, Blackboard Ultra, Christine Monnier, Featured, Guest Blogger
In a previous post, we looked at setting up tests and assignments in Ultra, and grading test submissions in the gradebook. Grading assignments is pretty much the same thing. You navigate to the gradebook. You find the assignment you want to grade. Click on the...
by Christine Monnier | Feb 26, 2024 | Blackboard, Blackboard Ultra, Christine Monnier, Featured, Guest Blogger
Well, at some point, we all have to start grading. In list view in the gradebook, there is a grading status column that pretty much tells you where you stand. Different grading statuses may show like this: From what I understand so far, “all graded” means...
by Christine Monnier | Feb 22, 2024 | Blackboard, Blackboard Ultra, Christine Monnier, Featured, Guest Blogger
Creating an assignment in Ultra starts the now-familiar way. Click on the + button where you want to create your assignment, and click Create: Then, select the assignment option: After that, everything will pretty much look the same as with tests. You’ll be...
by Christine Monnier | Feb 19, 2024 | Blackboard, Blackboard Ultra, Christine Monnier, Featured, Guest Blogger
Tests and assignments are features that all of us use in one form or another. Ultra gives a lot of options that I am still working my way through but I think I have a good handle on the basics, so I get to make it look like I know what I’m doing. But I will show...
