Steps for Accessing and Printing Tests from ULTRA courses Fill out a form to request access to download a free version of Respondus Instructions for Downloading and Installing Respondus (PC supported ONLY) Retrieving Tests from ULTRA Using Respondus Book Assistance if required
Sept 16, 2022 “SafeAssign” is having an issue where it fails to render PDFs, some Word and Excel documents. Blackboard product development team is actively working on a fix.
Before the next term begins Blackboard has shared some best practices. Discover best practices for instructors shared by Blackboard Learn experts and leading higher education institutions around the globe. Please see Blackboard Ultra Best Practices for Instructors for more details.
The July 2022 release is robust with features in four areas: assessment and grading; richer course and content design. They include: Select a points overall grade calculation Download grade history Edit the points a student earns on an assessment question Copy question banks Convert Blank Pages in Original Course View to Documents in Ultra Course […]
10 June 2022 — Blackboard Purge — ALL Sites up to and Including Winter 2021 A reminder of the next scheduled deletion of all old BB sites up to and including Winter 2021. When: June 10, 2022 What will be purged: All Winter 2021 Courses including all DEV/DEVU/SBX/SBXU/MSTR Courses generated on and before April 18th, 2021. […]
There have been a number of incidents where the feedback that instructors have provided to students on assessments (ex. Assignments) has been completely lost and unable to be retrieved. This is a software defect in Blackboard which we have escalated to the Blackboard team for them to resolve. As midterms and finals will be approaching […]
We have discovered a new bug when using the Panopto Portal in Blackboard Ultra in the Firefox browser, the browser does not fully load the portal. Please see the below screenshot. This impacts employees and students as they cannot use the Panopto portal to view or create Panopto videos. We recommend using Google Chrome to […]
The new update with Blackboard Ultra now allows for instructors and students to author and share computer code in the Content Editor using a new Code Snippet tool. The Content Editor identifies eleven programming syntaxes: Python Java JavaScript Kotlin R PHP Go C Swift C# HTML For more details regarding this new update, please see […]
The new update with Blackboard Ultra allows for instructors to decide when assessment results become available to students. Instructors now have the ability to hide the test results and also the test questions. For more details regarding this new update, please see Blackboard’s resource: Student Feedback Display Controls
Please be advised that due to the high volume at the beginning of the term, it may take 12-48 hours to complete a course copy. For instructions on how to complete a course copy, please see our resource on Copying a Blackboard Ultra Course.