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You’ll find your lecture notes , and learning materials in Course Content view in your Blackboard Ultra module, the default page in your Blackboard course.

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The majority of your learning content will be saved in Blackboard Ultra Folder symbolImage Modified folders or Blackboard Ultra learning module symbolImage Modified Learning modules, they will most likely be arranged by week.

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Types of learning content

Folders and Clicking on a folder or Learning modules will contain different reveal a list of content.

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Different types of content , are represented by different icons:

Blackboard Ultra document symbolImage Modified Documents (web pages containing text, images and video)

Blackboard Ultra images symbolImage Modified Images

Blackboard Ultra document symbolImage Modified Downloadable files such as PDFs/PowerPoint slides

Blackboard Ultra link symbolImage Modified Weblinks that will link to web content outside Blackboard

In addition you will see image-20240903-103926.pngImage Removed image-20240911-134028.pngImage Added assignments or tests

Another symbol you will may see is Blackboard Ultra Rocket symbolImage Modified this represents integrated nonthird-Blackboard party software e.g. Turnitin (assignments), Vevox (polls & quizzes) or Matlab (data)

Folders, documents and files

Click on a folder Blackboard Ultra Folder symbolImage Added to expand the content, this folder contains lecture notes in a file (PDF) that can be downloaded and a document a web page that contains a recording of a lecture:

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Click on a Blackboard Ultra document symbolImage Modified file, it will open in a layer above the course content area.

The following is a downloadable pdf, use the Blackboard Ultra Ally symbolImage Modified Ally button to generate an accessible version,

the Blackboard Ultra download symbolImage Modified download button to download the file

and Blackboard Ultra close symbolImage Modified to close the file

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Clicking on a Blackboard Ultra document symbolImage Modified document will also open it in a new layer above the Course content. Documents may contain text, images and video, they may also contain some downloadable files as well.

Use the image-20240903-111910.png Ally button to generate an accessible version

and image-20240903-111823.png to close the file

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Learning Modules

Learning modules are similar to folders, however they are used to organise content (documents, links, files) in sequence. The following are examples of Learning modules in Course Content, one has an image the other the icon image-20240903-103051.pngImage Added, the one on the right has forced sequence enabled.

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You are expected to work through the Learning module content in sequence, using the previous and next buttons at top of each item.

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Forced sequence Learning Modules

A list of content with a chain of circles and lines, means that forced sequence is activated and you must complete each item in order, before moving on to the next.

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The circle shows the status of each item

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learning module green tick Image Added green tick = complete

learning module half-circle symbolImage Added half circle = started

learning module grey circle symbolImage Added grey circle = current/ starting point

You need to click on the first (learning module grey circle symbolImage Addedcurrent item) in the list. The item will open and you’ll see that the link to the next item is greyed out, this means you need to complete the item i.e. read the document to enable the link.

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When you read to the bottom of the document the link will become activated and then you can progress to the next page.

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As you progress through the sequence, completed items are ticked off the list.

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If you need to leave the learning module, your progress is retained and you can come back to where left off by clicking on the learning module grey circle symbolImage Added current or learning module half-circle symbolImage Addedstarted item