| Announcements |
Announcements |
- Students are prompted with a pop-up when they first enter a course if there is a new announcement.
- Instructors can see the number of students who have viewed the announcement.
- Announcements are conveniently located at the top of the course for improved visibility.
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| Attendance |
Attendance |
- Instructors can quickly take attendance without having to set up Attendance Registers and Sessions.
- Instructors using Class Collaborate can have attendance information from Class Collaborate Sessions automatically feed into the attendance tool in Blackboard Learn Ultra.
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| Availability Dates & Conditions |
Release Conditions |
- Instructors can release items to specific students or groups of students.
- Instructors can release items by date and time.
- Instructors can release items by how well a student performed on a specific assessment.
- Instructors can choose to show or hide items before release conditions are met.
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| Calendar |
Calendar |
- Users can subscribe to the Calendar so that they can see due dates and events in their preferred Calendar application (Outlook, Gmail, and others.).
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| Classlist |
Roster |
- Instructors can grant accommodations to students in their course to give them extra time on timed assessments or to waive deadlines.
- Instructors can quickly identify which students have been granted accommodations.
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| Content |
Content |
- Instructors can personalize their course by adding a course banner from their desktop or stock images from Unsplash.
- Instructors can drag-and-drop files and folders from their desktop onto the Content page.
- Instructors and students can use Search to quickly find any item on the Content page.
- Students can quickly identify and message their instructor from the Content page.
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| Course Offering Information |
Course Settings |
- Instructors can configure the duration of their course.
- Instructors can turn on and off various tools that are available in their courses.
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| Competencies |
Goals & Standards |
- Instructors can align Goals & Standards to all items in a course.
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| External Learning Tools |
Teaching Tools with LTI Connection |
- Support for LTI 1.3 (Latest Version) .
- Institutions can integrate Blackboard Learn Ultra with over 400+ LTI-based Integrations to extend the functionality of the learning management system.
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| Units |
Learning Modules |
- Students can easily navigate to the next or previous item.
- Students can see the number of items they need to complete and the items they have completed so far.
- Instructors can personalize Learning Modules by uploading or selecting a custom image thumbnail.
- Instructors can enforce sequential learning, ensuring that students are working through items in the correct order.
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| Lessons |
Folders |
- Instructors can drag-and-drop files from their desktop into folders in Blackboard Learn Ultra.
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| Manage Dates |
Batch Edit |
- Instructors can shift dates forward and backwards by range.
- Instructors can shift dates by calculating the range between two dates.
- Instructors can apply the same date and time for all selected items.
- Instructors can select one or more items and delete them.
- Instructors can select one or more items and make them visible to students.
- Instructors can select one or more items and make them hidden from students.
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| Grades |
Gradebook |
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| Groups |
Groups |
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| HTML Document |
Document |
- Instructors can embed files and set them to display inline and/or make them downloadable.
- Instructors can build documents with the rich content editor, upload files using drag-and-drop workflows, or make use of a robust HTML editor for more advanced use cases.
- Instructors can easily embed third-party integrations leveraging LTI to enhance the learning experience.
- Instructors can enable conversations that allow students to talk about the content.
- Progress Tracking can be enabled on Documents so that you can easily see which students have viewed it.
- Instructors can use Progress Tracking on Documents to quickly message students based on their engagement with the content.
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| Web Link |
Web Link |
- Instructors can display external web pages in a new tab or within the course experience.
- Progress Tracking can be enabled on Web Links so that you can easily see which students have viewed it.
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| Assignment |
Assignment |
- Instructors can label assignments as formative to help set expectations for learners.
- Instructors have a consistent authoring experience when creating assignments and tests.
- Instructors can enable SafeAssign to check submissions for originality.
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| Discussion |
Discussion |
- Instructors and students can easily see the number of responses and replies each participant has made within the discussion.
- Instructors and students can easily filter the discussion by participant.
- Instructors can easily identify which students have not participated and send them a message.
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| Quizzes |
Tests |
- Instructors can enable SafeAssign to check submissions for originality.
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| SCORM/xAPI |
SCORM |
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| Surveys |
Forms |
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