Faculty DIY Materials

These DIY videos are great resources for you to set up Blackboard Ultra courses on your own.

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  Base Navigation

  
  
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  Batch Edit

  
  
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  Course Availability

  
  
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  Creating Announcements

  
  
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  Creating Assignments

  
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  Creating Tests

  
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  Creating and Using Rubrics

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  Messages and Email

  You can send messages to your instructors, other classmates, and group members. Messages activity remains inside the system, and you don't have to worry about email addresses that may be incorrect or outdated. Your institution controls your options for messages within Learn and can set restrictions on what you can do, or turn off messages completely. Some institutions allow instructors to set course-level controls for messages.

  Messages inside a course

  In a course, select the Messages page on the navigation bar. The number of unread messages that you have is indicated within a red circle. All your course messages and responses are on the Messages page. You can easily review the entire list and open a message to read all the responses.

  Your unread messages appear first in the list and have a red circle next to the sender's name. Each message displays the profile picture of the sender. Under the sender's name, you can view how many participants are included or if the message is for the whole class.

  

  A. Send a message. If allowed by your institution, select the New Message button to send a message. Send to one person, multiple people, group, or the entire class.

  B. Select how many messages per page. If you have many messages, you can increase how many messages display on one page.

  C. Delete a message. Use the Delete button to delete a message. If more responses come in, you'll get them. You can't edit or delete individual responses in a message.

  D. Navigate to another message. Messages open in a panel with all the responses. Use the View Previous Messages and Next Message buttons at the top to view the previous or next message in the list.

  E. Add more people. If allowed by your institution, when you create or respond to a message, select the Add Participants button to add additional people unless the message was sent to the entire class. The original recipients see a note in the next message that you added new people or the whole class. The new recipients see the message from the point they were added.

  F. Follow a conversation. Messages are threaded. When you select anywhere within a message, the panel for that message displays every sent and received message within that conversation. On your course's Messages page, the most recent message in a thread is what's displayed. Your own messages are indicated with a (You) that appears by your name.

  Send a message

  If allowed by your institution, when you select the New Message button on the Messages page, the New Message panel opens.

  

  
  Start typing to add recipients. As you type, matching recipient names appear in a menu for easy selection. You can continue to add as many names as you want or send to the whole class.

  Lead with the most important info. Messages don't have titles. Recipients need to rely on the first part of your message as they choose what to read.

  In the editor, select the plus icon to view the menu of options. You'll find the option to attach a file. To use your keyboard to jump to the editor toolbar, press ALT + F10. On a Mac, press Fn + ALT + F10. Use the arrow keys to select an option, such as a bulleted list.

  Send an email copy. You can send an email copy of a course message. Course members may be more likely to see, read, and act on course messages when they receive a copy in their inboxes. Email copies are only delivered if recipients have valid email addresses in their Learn profiles. When you select this option, all recipients of the message receive an email copy. Recipients can view your message in their email inboxes, but won't be able to send an email to reply.

  Add styles and include attachments. The text box allows you to adjust the appearance of the text in your messages. You can also choose to attach a file or embed a link to other media within your message, if your institution has enabled the option.

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  Setting Up Your Profile

  
  
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