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👉 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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\uD83D\uDCD8 Instructions

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  1. Your Blackboard Ultra Development Area will look like this, this is the new Blackboard Ultra interface. This area is private, you control access to the content using module manager.

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  1. Begin to add items to your module, our Blackboard Ultra essentials page provides support on all the tasks needed to set up a teaching module or watch the following video about getting started with Blackboard Ultra:

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Panopto video getting started with the new Blackboard Ultra interface

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Blackboard Ultra allows a maximum depth of two folders. You will not be able to duplicate all existing course structures in the new Ultra structure.

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  • 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 Information folder.

  • Try recreating an existing module’s weekly learning content folders into the weekly Learning Module folders.

  • 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 Ultra development area can be copied over to your live Blackboard Ultra teaching modules

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