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Get a head start, set up your own Ultra development area to explore Blackboard’s new features and functionality.
👉 Use your Blackboard Ultra development area to develop content for teaching in September 2024. You can easily copy documents or folders* or copy whole modules* to your live teaching area.
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Login to Module Manager Module Manager using your staff code e.g. e123456 and your network password.
Select Setup from the Ultra dropdown menu:
Give your Blackboard Ultra development area a meaningful title e.g. “firstname-lastname Ultra dev area”, then click on Set it up!
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Your request will take a few minutes. Your course will appear in your Blackboard course view
To Your course is not public, to collaborate with colleagues, you can add other people to your Ultra area. Select Manage from the Ultra dropdown menu.
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Enter the name (lastname, firstname) or staff code of the new user, select Instructor from the access level and click Save.
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Your Blackboard Ultra Dev AreaDevevlopment Area will look like this. This area is private, you control access to the content using module manager.
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Ultra allows a MAXIMUM DEPTH OF TWO FOLDERS. You will not be able to duplicate all existing structures in the new containers. |
Suggested activities:
Take a look at your existing modules in the original Blackboard layout, think about how they will translate into Ultra.
Upload a module handbook and add a welcome message to the Module Overview folder.
Try recreating an existing module’s weekly learning content folder in the Learning Materials folder.
Recreate a simple test and essay dropbox from an existing module and add them to the Assessment folder.
Open up the Blackboard app on your phone. Use Student Preview (circled) to compare the student experience of an Ultra module to an original module, which provides better access to learning content?
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Remember, anything you create in your development area can be copied * over to your live Blackboard Ultra teaching modules |
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