Scroll through your educational news feed!
The up-to-the-minute activity stream on your Activity page lets you jump directly into course actions. You don't need to dig through the system, search for deadlines, or miss assignments and tests.
Your institution controls the page you visit first after you log in.
Receive reminders. View pending deadlines or overdue assignments, tests, and graded discussions.
Check your grades. Whenever your instructor grades an assignment, test, or graded discussion, you can access the grade on your Activity page. If your instructor updates a grade, the grade is also updated on your Activity page.
Learn to juggle. Get a bird's eye view of your tasks across all your courses—then, prioritize!
Filter your view. Use the Filter menu and choose Show All, Assignments and Tests, or Grades and Feedback.
Your courses may appear in two views, based on what your instructors chose. You may see some activity in the stream from both views. To learn more, see Navigate a Course.
Activity categories
Activity items in your stream are grouped into four categories to make the list easier to scan:
Important: See overdue assignments, tests, and graded discussions. The number of items in this section makes up the count shown on the Activity page in the list where your name appears. If you dismiss an item in this section, you won't be able to view it again even if you sign out and sign in again. When you dismiss a stream item, the original content isn't affected. You just remove the notification from the Activity page.
Upcoming: View your top five events that will happen in the next seven days. Select Show More for a complete list. This section doesn't appear if no upcoming events are available.
Today: See everything happening and due in the next 24 hours, including institution-wide announcements about emergency notifications and updates. If your instructors added announcements, they appear here or in the Recent section.
Recent: If you haven't checked in for a bit, view stream items that were previously in the Today section over the last seven days.
Customize your Activity page
On your Activity page, select the Settings icon to open the Notification Settings panel. You can also access these settings from your profile page.
The notification system is always on in the Ultra experience. You can choose which notifications you receive about activity in all your Original and Ultra courses:
- Stream notifications: Choose which activities appear on your Activity page.
- Email: If you want to receive email notifications, add an email address to your profile page. Then, choose how often and which activities you want to receive notifications for.
- Push notifications: Messages pop up on your mobile device if you have the Blackboard app for students installed.
More on setting up your notifications
Both course views appear in the Activity page
The Activity page shows what's happening in your courses, whether the course uses the Original or Ultra Course View.
For the Ultra Course View, these events trigger notifications on your Activity page:
- Institution and course announcements
- New courses or organizations available
- Your instructors added content to your courses, such as assignments, tests, discussions, documents, SCORM packages, and links
- Your instructor posted a grade for your work
- Your instructor added events to your course
- Items that are due today
- Items that are due soon
- Items that are past due
- Events that are happening today
- Events that are happening soon
For the Original Course View, these events trigger notifications on your Activity page:
- New courses available
- Your instructors added content to your courses, such as assignments and tests
- You added a new blog, journal entry, or wiki page
- Your instructors posted grades for your work
- Your instructors added events to your courses
- Items that are due today
- Items that are due soon
- Items that are past due
- Events that are happening today
- Events that are happening soon
Watch a video about the Activity page
The following narrated video provides a visual and auditory representation of some of the information included on this page. For a detailed description of what is portrayed in the video, open the video on YouTube, navigate to More actions, and select Open transcript.
Video: Activity page shows how to access the Activity page and which items appear.
