Blackboard Tutorials

• Ultra Instructor: Quick Start Guide
• Accessibility Overview
• Activity Stream
• Navigate inside a Course

• Add Content
• Create and Build a Document Page
• Copy Content in Ultra
• Copy Content from Original to Ultra
• AI Module Generation
• Use Panopto for Video Content
• Batch Edit for Content Dates and Visibility
• Set Release Conditions

• Create Tests and Test Settings
• Use Question Banks to Reuse Questions
• Use Question Pools to Generate Different Test Versions
• Timed Assessments
• Create Assignments
• Insert Images, Videos and Media to Assessments
• Create Journals
• Peer Assessments
• Create Group Assignments
• AI Question Generation
• Embed Panopto Video Quiz
• Set Assessment Exceptions (e.g. student accommodations)
• Enable SafeAssign

• Interactive Tools
• Create Discussions
• Discussion Analysis
• Create Announcements
• Conversations in Ultra
• Course Groups
• Peer Assessments
• Create Group Assignments

• Ultra Gradebook
• Grade Assignments
• Annotate Student Submissions
• Grade Discussions
• Blackboard Rubrics
• Associate Rubrics with Assignments
• Grade Using Rubrics

Guide on Enabling Blackboard (Creating a Course Shell) for your new Course
Course Copy while Preserving Menus, Template, and Settings
Customizing Course Navigation and Menu

Adding and Grading Panopto Student Video Submissions
Adding Panopto Quizzes to Blackboard
Guide on Creating Assignments
Set Extended Time Test for Students with Disabilities
Guide on Using Safe Assign to Detect Plagiarism
Tests and Surveys Overivew of Process

• Guide on Creating, Editing, and Deploying Tests and Surveys
• Guide on Uploading Test Questions to Blackboard
• Recommended Settings for Deploying Tests in Blackboard
• Guide on Test Results and Feedback Options

Using Question Pools

• Demo on Building a Question Pool
• Use Random Blocks to Draw all Questions from Pools
• Use Question Sets for Added Control over Questions Selection

• Interactive Tools in Action
• Guide on Creating Blogs
• Guide on Creating Discussion Boards
• Guide on Creating Journals
• Guide on Creating and Managing Groups
• Guide on Creating Wikis
• Create and Manage Achievements

Adding Announcements to your course
Sending Emails from Blackboard
Creating an “Email Instructor” tool for the course menu
Guide on Embedding Zoom for Class Meeting or Office Hours

Embedding YouTube Videos in Blackboard
Embedding and Linking Panopto Videos in Blackboard

Adding and Grading Panopto Student Video Submissions
Guide on Using Blackboard Annotate for Inline Grading feedback
Guide on Grading Discussions
Navigate the Grade Center
Guide on Using the Grade Center
Guide on Using, Managing, and Grading with Rubrics

• Create Rubrics
• Associate a Rubric to an Assignment
• Grade Using a Rubric

Guide on Using Date Management to Adjust Dates from one Location

• Automatically Adjust Dates in a Copied Course

Use Performance Dashboard for Student Logins and Progress
Guide on Using the Retention Center to Track Performance and Notify Students

• Retention Center Demo

Supported Browsers in Blackboard: Tutorial Video | PDF Guide
Introduction to Blackboard: Tutorial Video | PDF Guide
What Happened to My Course Menu? Tutorial Video | PDF Guide
The Blackboard User Interface: PDF Guide

Blackboard Assignments Overview: Tutorial Video | PDF Guide
Discussions Boards in Blackboard: Tutorial Video | PDF Guide
Blackboard Ally: Tutorial Video | Online Guide
Respondus Lockdown Browser: Tutorial Video | PDF Guide