Setting Up Your Course

Adding a Course Banner to your Ultra Course

The image you choose for your course will appear as the course card image. Additionally, you have the option to display this image as a...

Applying the Blackboard Resources and Help Guide

The Humber Template has undergone some exciting changes.  It is now called the Blackboard Resources and Help Guide. In the past, instructors had to download the...

Copying a Blackboard Ultra Course

Known limitations: Unable to export a single item/test from BB Ultra – You can’t export individual items from BB Ultra. If you need to share...

Creating an Event in Blackboard Course Calendar

The course view of the calendar displays due dates, the course schedule, office hours, and course-specific meetings and events. When you create content with a...

Creating Announcements in Blackboard Ultra

What are announcements in Blackboard? Announcements are an ideal way to post time-sensitive information critical to course success, and to demonstrate instructor presence in your...

Enabling Class Conversations

Class conversations are an optional tool you can enable. Class conversations are areas within individual content items, students can discuss the content with you and...

Importing a Course Package into Blackboard Ultra

You can use the Import Content feature to: import a course package zip file given to you by another instructor. import content (zip file) that...

Moving Items in the Content Area

You can make changes to the existing content items and reorder where they appear on your Course Content page. To move items in the Course...

Sending Course Messages in Blackboard Ultra

What is a Course Message? You can use Course Messages as a way to communicate with students within Blackboard. You can even select the ‘Send...