This series of short videos is designed to help familiarize you with Ultra Course View. In this Getting to Know Blackboard Ultra area, you will find videos to help you think about how you would like to display your course content.
As you watch videos you are encouraged to click on the three dots below the video to ask a question (or make a comment) or to search the video.
Creating folders, learning modules, & documents
In can be useful to organize information that you are putting on the learning management system to make it easy for students to find. There are three ways to do this in Blackboard Ultra: Documents, Folders, and Learning Modules. Documents create content that combines a variety of materials to view together, such as text, multimedia, and attachments. Documents can be a very visual guide through content for students. Folders and Learning modules can be used to group assessments, documents, etc., for example, some instructors put all off there assessments into one folder so students can easily access them and view instructions.
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There are two types of ‘containers’: Folders & Modules.
Folders: Folders can hold different types of items.
Documents are a great way to visually display different types of media. Students can scroll through information, watch videos and even create learning activities directly in the document
A restriction in Blackboard Ultra is that you can only have one folder within a folder. However, you can further group items together by putting them into a document.
What is a document & how do I use it?
Documents can be helpful for organizing a lot of material into one place. Many instructors are using documents as an alternative to creating a folder with 3 or 4 different items in it. Find out more about documents in the video below
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You can insert text, images, videos, PDFs, Word files, etc. into documents.
PDF and Word items will open with a preview that students can scroll through when embedded in documents.
You can add files directly into folders. However, these files open in a new panel and you’re not able to make any notes before or after the file as you would in a document.
Adding files to your Blackboard Ultra Course
Files can be added on your front course page individually, within folders, or using ‘Documents’ if you would like to add multiple files and media types in one area. The video below explains how to upload files to your course and shows the different ways the files are viewed depending on how you uploaded them.
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To add files to your course content, hover to where you want to add the file and a purple horizontal lien with a + symbol will appear.
Files can be added from your computer or from cloud storage (such as OneDrive).
Files (documents, PDFs, PowerPoint presentations, etc.) can also be added within ‘Documents’.
Each file type (word document, pdf, or ppt document) will have different icons.
Adding Media to your course
Prerecorded lectures or other video content can be easily added to your course using Kaltura Media
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Instructors can add their prerecorded lectures in their content market by adding it directly on y our content page, in adocument, which is then embedded.
Instructors can add content by adding a quick link to their Kaltura media gallery. Students can view their instructors videos, and also add their own media to this area for their classmates to view.
Instructors can add a quick link to their Kaltura my media, which is a quick link to an instructor’s media. For the student, they see their own media.
If you upload media from your computer or storage (rather than Kaltura), you will quickly use up the space in your course.
Creating course links
Course links can be used to help students quickly navigate back to content from another area of the course. In this video I show:
how you can set up assessments in one folder and link to them from another area of the course
how to ensure assessments & feedback are viewable to students when a unit is no longer available
how to use release conditions to show assessments and due dates to students in the gradebook without making the assessment available to student for completion.
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Instructors can create links so that even though content lives in a specific location, students can access it from another location. To create a link (ie: to an assignment), click on the + symbol in the course content where you want the link to appear.
If an assessment is located in a folder that is hidden from students, the assessment and the feedback is no longer visible for students in the course content or the gradebook.
Assessments will also be hidden by adding release conditions. These assessment will still appear in the gradebook.
In “Course groups”, you can set up a group set, which is an organization of multiple groups such as discussion groups, group assignments, lab groups, etc.
This series of short videos is designed to help familiarize you with Ultra Course View.