Blackboard Ultra Respondus LockDown Browser: Quick Start Guide for Instructors
Respondus LockDown Browser is a customized web browser that increases the security of online testing in Blackboard. When students use Respondus LockDown Browser to access a test, they are unable to print, copy, go to another URL, access other applications, or close a test or quiz until it is submitted for grading. Respondus LockDown Browser works much like a standard browser, but many options have been removed or work differently.
Blackboard Ultra: Checking Your Course Quota Usage
The official file size quota per course in Blackboard is 1 GB. You can check the amount you have used of your allotted quota from within your course.
Blackboard Ultra: Creating and Grading with Interactive Rubrics
Grading rubrics help you evaluate student work consistently and objectively. Rubrics allow students to understand assignment expectations and components that will be graded.
Blackboard Ultra Make-up Exams: Exceptions
Sometimes students face situations or events that make it difficult or impossible for them to undertake an assessment, such as submitting coursework or taking a test. Depending on the circumstances, you may need to extend their due date for the assessment.
Blackboard Ultra: Dropping Grades in the Gradebook
This will show you how to set up the Blackboard Gradebook (Grade Center) to drop a grade from a group of scores, such as dropping the lowest quiz score from a semester’s worth of grades. You have to categorize the group, create a calculated column, and configure the settings.
Blackboard Ultra: Creating Banners in Your Course
Personalizing our Blackboard courses is a way to provide students with a unique online and educational experience. One way to personalize your Blackboard course is to add a picture or image (Banner) to the top of your course. Banners are also a useful way to indicate which course you are in which is especially helpful if you teach many courses a semester. Read on to learn how to personalize your course using the banner feature.
Blackboard Ultra: Adding a Course Link to the Course Content
A course link is a shortcut to an existing area, tool, or item in a course. Add course links next to relevant course materials to create a better experience for students.
Blackboard Ultra: Anonymous Grading
Use anonymous grading to reduce bias when grading course assignments.
Blackboard Ultra: Navigate Inside a Course
Learn more about how to navigate inside a Blackboard Ultra course.
Blackboard Ultra: Download All Assignment Submissions and Grading Offline
Instructors can download all student submissions for a single assignment or a single quiz from the Blackboard Gradebook to review them offline. It will download submissions into a zip file and you can print or grade them.