Here we are, end of Fall 2024, almost a year away from the completion of our switch to Ultra, I thought I'd do a recap of all the ground I covered so far, in my position of faculty chair of online quality and learning technology. You can find all my posts below....
Learning Technologies Blog
Do You Need PDH Before The End of The Semester?
If so, the Learning Tech office has two Ultra asynchronous trainings available for PDH: Blackboard Ultra Basics, which is a broad introduction and overview of Ultra. This is a good place to start if you have not yet started on your own course conversion and have had...
Do One Thing in Ultra: Taking Attendance with Qwickly
I have already blogged about the attendance module in Ultra and how to set up attendance in your gradebook. You can find the post here. There is one BIG problem with using that tool: you cannot change the total point value for attendance. It is set at 100 and that's...
Do One Thing in Ultra: Set Your Office Hours in the Calendar
I know we all post our office hours in MyAccess but how many of you think our students check them over there? Personally, I always create my syllabi way in ahead of time so I put my OH at TBA because I don't yet know what my final schedule will be. But even if you put...
Get Some PDH for Halloween
Do you need PDH? (Don't we all) Do you love Halloween? Of course, you do. (Train to Busan is still the best zombie movie ever made, don't @ me) The LT office has a special Halloween offering: earn one hour of PDH by completing four short Ultra activities: So stop by...
Get Some Ultra Flair: Email Badges Now Available
If you've made the switch to Ultra and you want to show off your super cool Ultra-ness to everyone, you can download one of these two badges for your email! We have them in both white and black, depending on your preference. You can download by right clicking above or...