Ultra Review
Are you ready for May? SPC will switch to all Ultra courses during the 2024 Maymester.
Tuesday 9 AM | Course Building
Blackboard Ultra Course View was designed from the ground up to be an effective teaching and learning platform featuring consistent and clear navigation, intuitive design and interactive features, and emphases on accessibility and performance on all devices. Over the last two years, the Ultra Course View has had an impressive number of feature updates and improvements, including responding to faculty and student feedback, feature and user analytics, and idea submissions and feature requests.
Wednesday 9 AM | Assessment
The online assessment tools of Blackboard can be utilized to facilitate meaningful and memorable learning activities for students. There are a variety of assessments you can create with Blackboard, which include: assignments, tests/quizzes, discussion board, blogs, journals and wikis. These tools can be used for weekly assignments, semester long projects, collaborations, formative reflections, and everything in between.
Thursday 9 AM | Communication
Blackboard Learn Ultra has a number of tools designed to build student engagement within your online course. Discussions about course content and Conversations about assignments are two ways for students to communicate with each other in Blackboard Learn Ultra. Journals are an option for ongoing private communication between faculty and students, such as reflections or ongoing individual projects. Announcements are a tool for faculty to communicate with all enrolled students at once, while the Messages feature is an option for faculty to communicate privately with an individual student.
