Blackboard Ultra Faculty Documentation
Course Contents, Edit and Manage Content
Course Content
- Your Course View
- Batch Edit content settings
- Batch Edit to Adjust Visibility to Items
- Batch Edit to Adjust Due Dates to Multiple Assessments
- Best Practices for Course Content
- Add Content
- Learning Modules
- Add Learning Modules via AI Design Assistant
- Persistent navigation for Learning Modules
- Import Course Packages
- Copy Content From Courses
- Export and Archives Courses
- Content Release Conditions
- Supporting multiple performance criteria in release conditions
- Add Files from Cloud Storage
- Content Collection
- Add files from the Content Collection
- Content Market - Add Content from External Sources
Edit and Manage Content
Create Assignments and Assignment Grading Options
Create Assignments
- Create and Edit Assignments
- Define Assignments Settings and Options
- Add Text and Files to Assignments
- Edit, reorder, and delete assignments
- Add a Timer to a Assignment
- Create Group Assignments
- Create Offline Assignments such as Oral Presentations or Lab Work
- Creating/Managing Peer Review Assessments
- Assignments and the Activity Stream
- Formative Assessments
- AI Design - Assignment Prompt Generation
Assignment Grading Options
Grade Assignments and Create Tests and Surveys
Grade Assignments
Create Tests and Surveys
- Create a Test
- Create a Test via AI Design Assistant
- Create Form (Survey)
- About the New Test Page
- Test and Survey Options
- Accommodations for timed assessments
- Allow Multiple Attempts on a Test
- Question Bank Generation from Ultra Documents
- Edit Tests and Questions
- Reorder and Delete Tests
- Reorder Test Questions
- Add Page Breaks to Tests
- Student Workflow on Taking a Test
- Print answer key for test
- Anonymous student responses for Forms
Question Types and Reuse Questions
Question Types
Reuse Questions
Test Performance and Grade Tests
Test Performance
Grade Tests
- See What Needs Grading
- Give Feedback on Submission Attempts
- Add question feedback when grading a test by question
- Grade with SafeAssign
- Grade Tests with Multiple Attempts
- Give Full Credit
- Clear Attempts and Add Exceptions
- Change Points Earned on Test Questions
- Filter out graded responses when grading by question
Set Up the Gradebook and Gradebook Settings and Options
Set Up the Gradebook
- Improved Gradebook navigation
- Automatically Created Grade Items
- Navigating Grading
- How to Find the Gradebook
- Manually Add Grade Items
- Calculate Grades
- Overall Grade
- Weighted Calculation Improvements
- Rearrange Gradebook List View
- Send Messages from the Gradebook
- Search the Gradebook
- Views of the Gradebook
- View Gradable Items
- View Students Engagement
- Hide unenrolled students from the gradebook
Gradebook Settings and Options
Grade Student Submissions and Discussions
Grade Student Submissions
- Change Due Dates
- Collect Submissions Offline
- Grade Assignments
- Grade in Blackboard App
- Grade Tests
- Override Grades
- Different Ways to Start Grading
- Attempt logs for enhanced assessment integrity
- Student feedback remains visible to students regardless of release condition se…
- Download Submissions
- Download Gradebook/Grade History
- Bb Annotate
- Filter out graded responses when grading by question
- Grader Notes on student grades
- Needs Grading improvements for assessments allowing multiple attempts
- Recording audio and video when adding per question feedback
- Record Audio and Video
Discussions
Interact with Students and Groups
Interact with Students
Groups
See How Your Students are Doing and SafeAssign
See How Your Students are Doing
SafeAssign
AI Design Assistant and Blackboard Ally
AI Design Assistant
- Discussion generation
- Rubric generation
- Assignment prompt generation
- Test generation
- Journal generation
- Question Bank generation from Ultra Documents
- Generate images
- AI Design Assistant – Context picker for Learning Modules, Assignments, Discuss…
- AI Design Assistant – Language Selector
- Generate AI Conversations
- Course Structure Suggestions (Auto-Generate Modules)
- Assignment prompt generation