Blackboard – Quick Set Up 1
Staff Guide Quick Start: How to Access and Personalise a Blackboard Course
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Setting up your course and adding course content
Find information on how to create an effective layout and add different types of content to your Blackboard Ultra module.
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Blackboard – Quick Set Up 2
Staff Guide: Plan your layout and add teaching content These three quick set up guides are designed to take you... -
Blackboard – Quick Set Up 3
Staff Guide: Review and release content, check accessibility and engage with students. These three quick set up guides are designed... -
Blackboard – request a Sandbox course
Staff guide: A sandbox is a course used for training and testing. -
Blackboard Ultra – Create and Edit Content
Staff guide: This guide will describe the different types of content you can add to your module, how to add... -
Blackboard Ultra – Change your Course Banner Image
Staff Guide: A course image will help to give your course page an identity and help students to locate the course in their Courses view. -
Blackboard Ultra – Migrate content from a Blackboard Original course.
Staff Guide: You can select items from other Original or Ultra courses you’re enrolled on. -
Blackboard Ultra – Copy (rollover) content from another Ultra course.
Staff Guide: For anyone who migrated their course in 24-25, follow these quick steps to copy (rolling over) all your content from another Ultra course. -
Blackboard Ultra – Content Visibility and Release Conditions
Staff Guide: How to show and hide content in your course. How to use release conditions to automate rules for showing content to students. Use student preview to check what a student can see. -
Blackboard Ultra – Student Preview
Staff Guide: With Student Preview, you can review course content from a student's perspective. -
Blackboard – Make your course available to students
Staff Guide: Making your course available/unavailable to students. -
Blackboard Ultra – Create Ultra Documents
Staff Guide: To show you how to create and edit Ultra Documents which are like a webpage for your module. -
Blackboard Ultra – Content Market
Staff Guide: An introduction to the Content Market and the tools available here. -
Panopto – Add video to Ultra courses
Staff Guide: how to embed Panopto video into Course Content and Ultra Documents. -
Panopto – Release videos by time and date (availability settings)
Panopto and Blackboard Ultra - How to upload a video to the Panopto and Blackboard, and ensure this is released to students at a certain date and time. -
Blackboard Ultra – Add an online Reading List
Staff Guide: Add an online reading list or reading list section to your Blackboard Ultra Course via the Reading List tool in Content Market -
Blackboard Ultra – Add LinkedIn Learning content
Staff guide: how to add LinkedIn Learning content via the Content Marketplace or via an external link. -
Blackboard – add a SCORM content package to your course
Staff Guide: SCORM (Sharable Content Objective Reference Model) is a standard for learning objects . -
Blackboard Ultra – 2024-25 Prepare for the new academic year
Staff Guide: This is a quick guide to finding and preparing your courses for the next academic year, including a new course checklist.