by Christine Monnier | Dec 10, 2024 | Christine Monnier, Featured, Guest Blogger, Online Teaching, Professional Development, Training
I have been pestering y’all to move to Ultra and I will continue to do that until January 2026 when our conversion will be complete. So you have to look forward to a whole year of me being annoying about Ultra. However, one half of my faculty chair duties have...
by Christine Monnier | Dec 9, 2024 | Blackboard Ultra, Christine Monnier, Do One Thing in Ultra, Featured, Guest Blogger, Training
When the Learning Technologies office surveyed faculty about the type of training people wanted, quite a few of you answered that you’d like training offered during winter break (both before and after the Holidays), with a marked preference for Zoom sessions. So...
by Christine Monnier | Dec 5, 2024 | Blackboard Ultra, Christine Monnier, Do One Thing in Ultra, Ed Tech Tools, Featured, Guest Blogger
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....
by Christine Monnier | Nov 20, 2024 | Blackboard Ultra, Christine Monnier, Featured, Guest Blogger, Professional Development, Training
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...
by Christine Monnier | Nov 18, 2024 | Blackboard, Blackboard Ultra, Christine Monnier, Do One Thing in Ultra, Ed Tech Tools, Featured, Guest Blogger, Integrations, 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...
by Christine Monnier | Nov 4, 2024 | Blackboard Ultra, Christine Monnier, Do One Thing in Ultra, Featured, Guest Blogger
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...
