by 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 Christina Sabo | Aug 26, 2024 | Blackboard, Featured
In previous semesters, Learning Technologies made available a “course” for students enrolled in online, hybrid, and VCM classes called the “Orientation to Online Learning.” We’ve replaced this “course” with a Blackboard Ultra Organization. The Organization is called...
by 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 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 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 Christina Sabo | Jun 4, 2024 | Blackboard, Blackboard Ultra, Featured
The Grade Center can sometimes be a complicated tool to use in Blackboard simply because there are so many options and settings to choose from! But there are a few things you can do to ensure that you get things set up how you want them and make it easy for both you...
