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How to Check Student Activity on an Assignment
The first step is to go to the assignment itself. From there, you will need to click on the "Student Activity" option on the navigation bar. This sits right under the name of the assignment. Once you are in student activity, you can scroll down the ...
How to Change the Visibility of Many Assignments at Once
Click the ellipses in the top corner of the content area. Select Batch Edit from the drop-down menu. From here, you can check the items you want to release all at once or edit the visibility of all selected items.
Collect submissions offline and grade with rubrics
Sometimes an instructor wants to create a rubric to assess a student's performance in an offline or non-Ultra course context. For example, if a student is being assessed for a public speaking project, the instructor may want to convey instructions or ...
How to Upload a Question Bank to Blackboard Ultra
1- Starting from the course content page, look to the right of the page and there you will see a column. 2- At the bottom of the column you will see the option to "Manage Banks". Click on that link. It twill take you to the question banks area. 3- ...
How to copy course content from one Blackboard Ultra course to another Ultra course
From Ultra to Ultra: Starting in the course that you would like to copy into, click on the three horizontal black dots that are located near the top right side of the window, right underneath the course image. From the dropdown menu click on the ...
How to Copy Course Content from a Blackboard Original Course to a Blackboard Ultra Course
From Original to Ultra: From the Blackboard landing page, navigate to the course that you would like to copy. Within the course, scroll down the page until you reach the "Course Management" section. Within the "Course Management" you will need to ...
Instructor Engagement Per Course
What is the instructor engagement per course? Course ID Course name Active instructor count Active student count Instructor course access count Average instructor time in courses (hours) Average student time in courses (hours) Instructor- student ...
How do I exclude an attempt from a student on an assessment?
Allowing students to submit multiple attempts for an assessment can help them stay on track. It can improve the quality of the assessment and boost student success. However, there are some circumstances where an attempt doesn’t need to be graded. For ...
How to I record videos inside course documents?
Many instructors have already tried recording feedback for assignments and making video announcements, but now, until June 30, 2025, they can record videos directly inside of documents! (Note: At the end of 2025, All videos recorded will be ...
How do I add a knowledge check into a Blackboard document?
The Content Designer for Documents now includes a Knowledge Check block. The Knowledge Check enhances the learning experience. Knowledge checks allow students to engage with content and receive immediate feedback. Instructors are also empowered with ...
How to Make a Rubric
Rubrics Rubrics can help ensure consistent and impartial grading and help students focus on your expectations. A rubric is a scoring tool that you can use to evaluate graded work. When you create a rubric, you divide the assigned work into parts. You ...
Safe Assign
Safe Assign You can use SafeAssign to prevent plagiarism and to create opportunities to help students identify how to properly attribute sources rather than paraphrase. SafeAssign is effective as both a deterrent and an educational tool. SafeAssign ...
Blackboard Notification Options
Blackboard Notification Options [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZIdCqhc-8E?version=3&rel=1&fs=1&autohide=2&showsearch=0&showinfo=1&iv_load_policy=1&wmode=transparent] You can manage the notification settings for all of the courses you are ...
Calendar & Date Management
Calendar & Date Management The Blackboard Calendar A great improvement from ANGEL to Blackboard is the integrated Calendar you will find in Blackboard. You can use the course calendar to provide students with dates for course related events. Course ...
Creating Announcements
Creating Announcements In Blackboard if your class opens to the Course Home Page you will need to add Announcements by clicking on the Announcement link that can be found in the Course Menu column on the left. Once the Announcements page opens click ...
About Adaptive Release
About Adaptive Release Course content does not have to be released all at once, but can be released gradually as students complete the course. In ANGEL, this was accomplished either by a simple Date or Group release or by a complicated Action Agent ...
Grade Center
Grade Center Finding the Grade Center From your course, go to the area for Course Management, found on the left course menu column. Underneath Control Panel, the fourth link is called Grade Center. Clicking on the Grade Center loads the Full Grade ...
Assessments
Assessments Assignments In Blackboard, a drop box is referred to as an Assignment. The Assignment Tool is Blackboard’s gift to instructors. Depending on the settings that you choose, it will check for plagiarism with a tool called SafeAssign. For ...
Using the Discussion Board
Using the Discussion Board The Discussion Board is one of the primary means of engagement between students and instructors. Online Educational Services recommends that you keep it simple for students as well as yourself. The first step you will need ...
Copying Content
Copying Content Using the Course Copy Tool in Blackboard Follow these simple steps to copy content from one course to another: Video: Demo of Copying Course Content from One Course to Another Steps: Go to the course that contains the desired content, ...
Adding Content
Adding Content In Blackboard you will begin adding content by clicking on the Content link in the Course Menu. A. Content in Course Menu B. By clicking on the Build Content button you can start adding content to your class. C. Start by adding a ...
Getting Started with Blackboard
Getting Started with Blackboard My Home A. My Home (First page you see in Blackboard) B. Links to sites students may need during the course of semester C. Tools: D. My Messages: Here is where you can see any Course Messages sent by any of the classes ...