Getting Started.... Navigating Blackboard Ultra

Student Guide: Getting started in Blackboard, more about Blackboard courses and how to find them.

We recommend you use either Chrome or Firefox browser to access Blackboard.  Follow this link to access the Blackboard Browser Checker - do you see all green ticks?

Staff and students can download the Blackboard mobile app to access Blackboard content on their personal mobile devices.

Student Guide: What is Progress Tracking and how will it affect me?

Student Guide: Information about what you will find in the Books and Tools menu

Student Guide: A course instructor can set up a Blackboard course to allow students to enrol themselves onto the course.

Staff and students can change their own language settings in Blackboard. Courses can have a set default language.

User Guide: Describes key differences between Blackboard Original and Blackboard Ultra modules

Download the Blackboard Learn and MySouthampton apps to your mobile device.

If you are an iOS user who has download the Blackboard app, you might find things such as Panopto videos or other bits in Blackboard are failing to load or keep asking you to sign in.

You can choose to show or hide courses in the My Courses list and group the list by Term.

Student Guide: How to view the module profile for a Blackboard course you are enrolled on.

Student Guide: The different tools the teaching team may interact with you in Blackboard Ultra, and ways you can communicate...

Student Guide: What is the Blackboard Ultra Calendar and what types of events and due dates does it contain?