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Your new Blackboard Ultra teaching module will contain an empty template, but you can easily copy old content across from your older module.

📘 Instructions

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The new Blackboard Ultra module template

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The Ultra folder structure is two folders deep that means not all previous folder structures can be replicated in the new template.

Find out more about the new Blackboard Ultra interface

If you want to build your course from scratch find out about different templates and structures.*

Copying a document or folder from an existing module

We You can easily copy a document or content folder from an existing Blackboard original or Ultra module e.g.

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Week 1 folder in Blackboard original.

To copy Tests and assignments*

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Copying a document or folder FROM Blackboard Original

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Copying from Blackboard Original is only suitable for XXX use copying TO Blackboard Ultra to copy …

You can continue to copy folders and documents from existing within Blackboard original modules by using the drop-down arrow beside the item and select Copy. For instance I can copy a Week 1 folder across using this method.

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This opens the Copy dialogue box, select the Destination Course

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… and Destination folder and press Submit.

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Blackboard Original copying exceptions

Blackboard Original Content such as Tests, Surveys, Blackboard dropboxes, SCORMS will not copy FROM Blackboard Original. Nested folder structures will not stay intact.

On pressing submit, there was a warning telling me an item didn’t copy. This was a SCORM file so it won’t copy from Blackboard Original

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Check your Destination folder for the copied item.

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items. Due to Ultra’s 3 level hierarchy, a maximum depth of two folders is allowed, therefore a folder has been displaced from the original course folder structure.

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Copy a folder or document TO Blackboard Ultra module

*QUIZZES,TESTS, PANOPTO,* assignments

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In your new blank Ultra module, at the top of the course content area, click the ellipsis (three dots)

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By default, the folder and its contents will be hidden from students, click the down arrow review the files and folders.

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copy a course

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As Blackboard Ultra has a simplified structure, Original courses with nested folders deeper than three levels will have their folder structure changed to reflect the Ultra structure.

Adding content to the Ultra*

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