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 taken to a...
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Blogging Learning Tech: Tests in Ultra
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 also...
Blogging Learning Tech: Announcements and Messages
Well, sooner or later, we have to talk to our students, don't we? There are lots of ways to communicate with students, individually, or as a group within Ultra. Announcements and messages are the main way to do that. Let's start with Announcements. Announcements...
Blogging Learning Tech: Creating Content in Ultra
Greetings, colleagues, in this post, I want to focus on content creation in Ultra. In a previous post, we took a look at copying content from one course to another. We also saw that we can upload different files direction into Ultra from our computers. But sometimes,...
Blogging Learning Tech: Whatever Happened to the Date Management Tool?
Guys, remember when I posted about the date management tool in Blackboard, and a whole bunch of you emailed about it? I still use it. So, of course, one of my main concerns, when I got started with the Ultra Course View (UCV), was whatever would happen with that tool...
Tips for Using the Blackboard Grade Center Like a Pro
The Grade Center can sometimes be a complicated tool to use in Blackboard simply because there are so many options and settings to choose from! But there are a few things you can do to ensure that you get things set up how you want them and make it easy for both you...