The new block styling options in Blackboard Ultra Documents let you highlight important information with colorful, icon‑tagged sections. Instructors can now call out questions, tips, key points, next steps, or highlights — making course content easier for students to scan and understand.
Read MoreAt some point, you will need to replace old files with new versions in your course. Instead of adding new files each time, which increases the clutter and size of the course files area, use the overwrite feature in Blackboard.
Read MoreIn Blackboard Ultra it is possible to copy individual course items and folders from one course to another. You can also move items within the same course.
Read MoreSometimes it might be necessary to change all due dates at once in a course. For instance, when you copy a course from a previous semester. It is time-consuming to go through and change the due dates or set the availability for assignments, journals, announcements, and other content items. The Batch Edit tool is a way to change all of the due dates and the availability dates in a single place.Â
Read MoreWith more and more Mac users on campus, students often submit Apple Pages documents into assignments on Blackboard which are not viewable inline, cannot be parsed through our plagiarism detection tool, and many instructors who use a PC cannot open them. There is a quick and easy way for students to save pages files as word documents and other file types that are more accessible.
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