by Christine Monnier | Jun 13, 2024 | Blackboard, Blackboard Ultra, Christine Monnier, Do One Thing in Ultra, Featured, Guest Blogger
I know we have had countless discussions about grades, their value, their impact on intrinsic motivation, what the research on grading shows, and endless debates on the u-word… no, not Ultra… ungrading. Personally, I am not brave enough to ungrade but I do...
by Christine Monnier | Jun 5, 2024 | Blackboard, Blackboard Ultra, Christine Monnier, Do One Thing in Ultra, Featured, Guest Blogger
Since you now all know how to import a test bank, the whole point is to create tests from it, so let’s do that. Watch me create a test from a question bank, inside the module I previously created, under 2 minutes. And the steps: In the video, you can see me do a...
by Christine Monnier | Jun 3, 2024 | Blackboard, Blackboard Ultra, Christine Monnier, Do One Thing in Ultra, Featured, Guest Blogger
In Ultra, learning modules are the basic building blocks of your courses. You can fill them with all sorts of content, from regular documents, to tests, to assignments, to third-party integrations, and countless other things. Ultra offers a few options to customize...
by Christine Monnier | May 29, 2024 | Blackboard, Blackboard Ultra, Christine Monnier, Do One Thing in Ultra, Featured, Guest Blogger
The only third-party feature I use from publishers is the test bank. So one of the first things I learned to do in Ultra was import my textbooks’ test banks. It is also easy to do in Ultra. The video below is my demonstrating how you can import 15 test banks...
by Christine Monnier | May 27, 2024 | Blackboard, Blackboard Ultra, Christine Monnier, Do One Thing in Ultra, Faculty Focus, Featured, Guest Blogger
As you all probably know by now, there isn’t a lot of visual customization that can be done in Ultra. But there is one thing you can do to personalize the look of your course (and for me, to differentiate all my intro shells on my Blackboard landing page without...
