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Anthology BB Support Webinar Recordings and Course Content Building Basics

Bb Ultra Webinar Recordings

  • Introduction to the Base Navigation
  • Getting Started with Blackboard Ultra (Creating Dynamic Content) - Tuesday, Jan…
  • Assignments and Inline Grading & Rubrics - Tuesday, January 14th 10:00AM-12:00P…
  • Creating Online Tests/LockDown Browser - Wednesday, January 8th 10:00AM-12:00PM
  • Mastering the Gradebook - Thursday, January 16th 4:00PM-6:00PM
  • Kaltura in Ultra - Wednesday, January 15th 10:00AM-12:00PM
  • Communicating with Students - Thursday, January 9th 4:00PM-6:00PM
  • Setting Up Your Overall Grade Workshop
  • Blackboard Ultra Best Practices
  • Ways to pull in Questions from a Question Bank
  • Ways to Leverage the Release Conditions

Course Content Building Basics

  • Bb Ultra Getting Started Reference Sheet
  • Build an Ultra Course Reference Guide
  • Copying Content from Another Course
  • Duplicating Content from Existing Course
  • Copying an Entire Course
  • Copy an Entire Organization (Non-Academic) Course to an Academic Course
  • Exporting Your Course
  • Importing a Previously Exported Course
  • Adding Instructors to Academic Courses
  • Editing a Course Member's Role
  • Accessing Student Preview
  • Archiving a Course
  • Batch Edit in Ultra Course View
  • Release Conditions
  • Adding a Course Banner
  • Adding the Course Schedule

Manage Content Collection and Create Content

Manage Content Collection

  • Delete out Unused Course Files

Create Content

  • Adding a Learning Module
  • Adding Learning Modules via AI Design Assistant
  • Adding a Folder
  • Converting Folders to Learning Modules and Learning Modules to Folders
  • Adding a Document page
  • Building a Document page
  • Inserting, Resizing, and Moving Images within an Ultra Document
  • Adding a File via Upload
  • Adding a File via Content Collection
  • Adding a Tool to the Course Content Page
  • Embedding a Kaltura Video in Your BB Course
  • Deleting an Active File From Your Course
  • Adding a Course Link
  • Moving an Item or Learning Module/Folder
  • Attaching a OneDrive file via Link
  • Creating a Journal
  • Inline File Rendering
  • Replacing an Existing Uploaded File

Assessing Learning and Assignments

Assessing Learning

  • Creating a Rubric
  • Associating a Rubric with Assessments
  • Record Audio/Video Feedback on graded items
  • Marking Attendance
  • Granting Students Accommodations
  • Granting Assessment Exceptions
  • SafeAssign Overview
  • SafeAssign DirectSubmit

Assignments

  • Creating an Assignment
  • Creating a Peer Review Assignment
  • Creating a Group Assignment
  • Associating a Rubric with Assignments, Tests, or Discussions
  • Download Assessment Submissions
  • Using SafeAssign in Assignments
  • Grading an Assignment
  • Bb Annotate
  • Collecting Submissions Offline
  • Change Assessments Due Date and/or Time all at once

SafeAssign and Online Tests/Forms (Surveys)

SafeAssign

  • SafeAssign Overview
  • Enabling SafeAssign in Assignments

Online Tests/Forms (Surveys)

  • Creating a Test
  • AI Design Assistant - Creating a Test from Existing Course Content
  • Creating a Form (Survey)
  • Adding Different Types of Questions to a Test
  • Reusing Questions
  • Importing Question Banks
  • Adding a Question Pool
  • Timed Assessments
  • Download Test Results
  • Embed a Video in a Test Question
  • Copy a Test from Another Course
  • Releasing Test on a Specific Day/Time
  • Partial Credit for Multiple Choice Questions
  • Allow students to see just their test score
  • Viewing students attempts during the test
  • Test Settings - Showing Test Results and Feedback to Students
  • Write Questions Offline in a Text File and Upload it into a Test
  • Creating Extra Credit Test Questions in Ultra
  • Allow Students to View Test Attempt Results One Time

Respondus 4.0 Test Generator and Enhance Communication

Respondus 4.0 Test Generator

  • Download Respondus for Windows OS
  • Installation Password
  • Formatting Your Word File for Respondus
  • Publishing a Respondus Test into Bb Course

Enhance Communication

  • Creating a Journal
  • Creating Announcements
  • Enable Conversations on Content Items
  • Messages Tool Overview
  • Send Reminder from Gradebook
  • Adding the Zoom LTI Tool to the Course Content Page
  • Creating a Recurring Zoom Meeting within the Zoom Tool
  • Starting/Joining a Recurring Zoom Meeting
  • Sending Attached Files with Messages in a Closed Blackboard Course

Collaboration in Group and Discussion

Collaboration in Group

  • Creating a Custom Group Set
  • Creating a Randomly Assign Group Set
  • Students Finding Their Group Assessments

Discussion

  • Creating a Discussion
  • Creating a Single Prompt Structure Discussion
  • Creating a Multi Prompt Structure Discussion
  • Adding an Auto-Generate Discussion
  • Monitoring & Replying within a Discussion
  • Enabling Grading for Discussions
  • Grading Discussions
  • Discussion Analysis
  • Receive Email Notifications on New Activity from a Followed Discussion

Gradebook: Settings and Option

Gradebook: Setup and Gradebook: Settings and Option

  • Gradebook Overview
  • Reorganizing Gradebook Columns
  • Adding a Manual Gradable Item (Column)
  • Downloading the Gradebook
  • Managing Gradable Item Visibility to Students
  • Filtering the Gradebook
  • Searching the Gradebook
  • Setting up Overall Grade: Weighted Calculations
  • Overriding Overall Grade with Grade Notation
  • Adding Gradebook Calculations: Average
  • Accessing a Gradebook Columns Statistics
  • Applying Category to Multiple Gradable Items

Gradebook: Settings and Option

  • Creating a New Grade Category
  • Applying Customized Grade Categories to Gradable Items (Columns)
  • Setting up Item and Category Weighting
  • Assigning Automatic Zeros to Missing Work Past the Due Date
  • Disabling Automatic Zeros
  • Accessing/Modifying Grade Schema

Grade Student Submissions and Kaltura

Grade Student Submissions

  • Using the Student Grid View
  • Filtering Submissions by the Needs Grading Status
  • Grading an Assignment
  • Bb Annotate
  • Grading with a Rubric for Assessments & Discussions
  • Record Audio/Video Feedback on graded items
  • Download Assessment Submissions
  • Download Test Results
  • Overriding a Grade
  • Collecting Submissions Offline
  • Grading an Offline Submission Assignment
  • View Grade History

Kaltura

  • Embed a Kaltura Video in Your Bb Course
  • Edit Captions
  • Request Closed Captions
  • Upload a Video to Your My Media

Performance and Blackboard Ally

Performance

  • Progress Tracking Students on a Course Content Item
  • Accessing Student Progress

Blackboard Ally

  • Access Alternative Formats
  • Bb Ally WYSIWG Accessibility
  • Accessing the Ally Accessibility Report

Artificial Intelligence in Blackboard

Artificial Intelligence

  • Adding Learning Modules via AI Design Assistant
  • AI Design Assistant - Creating a Test from Existing Course Content
  • Adding an Auto-Generate Discussion
  • Create A Journal Using AI Design Assistant
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