by Christine Monnier | Apr 7, 2026 | Blackboard Ultra, Christine Monnier, Do One Thing in Ultra, Guest Blogger
When you want to grade an assignment, by default, Ultra will list your submissions in alphabetical order. But what if you wanted a different order? For instance, I prefer grading in chronological order: the oldest submissions get graded first. Ultra gives you four...
by Christine Monnier | Mar 9, 2026 | Blackboard Ultra, Christine Monnier, Featured, Guest Blogger
So this is a problem that has been brought to the attention of, well, a lot of people: a faculty has an assignment done offline, but with grades to be posted in the gradebook. Said faculty creates the assignment in Blackboard, then check the “Collect Submissions...
by Christina Sabo | Feb 2, 2021 | Blackboard, Featured
Blackboard Annotate is Blackboard’s inline grading tool. You can use it to draw, comment and add text directly to student assignments in Blackboard, allowing you to grade in a way that is much more similar to how you might grade a real, physical document in front of...
by Christina Sabo | Nov 2, 2020 | Blackboard, Featured
While rubrics can be a fair amount of work to set up at the outset of your course, but they can save you time and stress when it comes time to grading all those big tests and projects at the end of the term. Even better, if you’re already using Blackboard Grade...
by Christina Sabo | Sep 21, 2020 | Featured
Starting with the Fall 2020 term, Roster Verification, Midterm Verification, and Grades will be entered in Blackboard using the Academic Records Integration tool located in the Course Tools menu. Training is available in the following...
