by Christine Monnier | Aug 27, 2024 | Blackboard, Blackboard Ultra, Christine Monnier, Featured, Features, Guest Blogger
When the college decided to move to Blackboard Ultra, we expected a few benefits. One was that we would no longer experience the first day of the semester meltdown that we all so enjoyed when we were trying to show our courses to our students on the first day of...
by Christine Monnier | Aug 19, 2024 | Blackboard, Blackboard Ultra, Christine Monnier, Featured, Guest Blogger, Online Teaching
In a moment of weakness, Dr. Nieto appointed me interdisciplinary chair of Learning Technology and Online Quality. This means that I now have an administrative mandate to hassle the rest of you to get going on Ultra. Hassling people is the beginning and end of my...
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, 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...
