 Building Content - Ultra Course View

How to add a course banner image to your course.

This article explains how to add a GVSU Save Course Materials link to a Blackboard Ultra course. This link was previously named "Bookshelf by VitalSource" in the Build Content area and is now GVSU Save Course Materials.

How to add an image to a learning module

This article explains how to add content in a Blackboard Ultra course.

This article explains how to add emojis to folder names and descriptions in Blackboard Ultra.

This article explains how to add internal course links in Blackboard Ultra.

This article explains how to add web links in Blackboard Ultra.

This article will walk you through capturing a URL link from your browser that links out to a page in your Blackboard course. This can be used to add a link to a course area within an item with the goal of sending students to the specified course page with one click. This is an alternative to using Course Links in the Ultra course view.

This article explains how to associate a rubric with an assignment, test, or discussion.

This article explains how to make content visible or hidden to students, including how to set release dates so content opens based on a particular condition (date/time, membership, or performance).

You can use Batch Edit to update common settings across all content. This article explains how.

This article will walk you through how to add a GVSU library resource to your Blackboard course using the Library Search tool.

Blackboard Ultra offers a number of different tools for communicating with students. This article offers some suggestions and specific tips about those tools.

Discussions encourage students to think critically about their coursework and interact with each other’s ideas. Follow these instructions, or watch the video, to learn how to create discussions in Blackboard Ultra.

This article will show you how to add a Hypothesis assignment to a Blackboard Ultra course using GVSU Save/VitalSource materials.

This article will show you how to add a JSTOR article to a Hypothesis assignment in a Blackboard Ultra course.

Follow the instructions, or watch the video, to learn how to create a journal in Blackboard Ultra.

This article explains how to create a test in Blackboard Ultra.

This article provides a workaround so students can email you from within your Blackboard course.

You can create course group sets and apply them to graded content, such as group discussions and assessments. Follow these instructions, or watch the video, to learn how.

This article will show you how to add Hypothesis enabled readings in a Blackboard Ultra course.

This article explains how to create learning modules in Blackboard Ultra.

This article explains how to create a rubric in Ultra Course View.

This article will walk you through creating an assignment in Bb Ultra Course View.

This article will show you how to integrate Padlet into a Blackboard Ultra course (LTI 1.3).

This article explains how to create and upload certificates for students in Blackboard Ultra.

This article will walk you through the differences and similarities between learning modules and folders in a Blackboard Ultra course and when to utilize each.

This article will walk you through how to move and organize the content items on your course's Content page.

Instructors can reschedule announcements without having to recreate them. They can do this by changing the Show On and Hide After fields to a future date. When students first enter a course, the rescheduled announcement will trigger another pop-up.

This article explains how to schedule Zoom office hour meetings in a Blackboard Ultra course.

This article will provide instructions on how to connect McGraw-Hill Connect to your Blackboard Ultra course.

This article will provide instructions on how to connect Pearson products to your Blackboard Ultra course.

This article explains how to set up a OneNote notebook in Blackboard Ultra.

Should an instructor choose to do so, they and their students can participate in class conversations for individual content items. These conversations are useful to share extra resources and ask questions that others might have.

This article provides details for using Grammarly in Blackboard Classic vs Ultra course views.

This article will walk you through using SafeAssign in Bb Ultra Course View.

The content editor provides a variety of formatting capabilities. Review the icons in the article to learn more.

This article explains how the lightboard works for creating video lectures using a lighted writing board. Contact information is available to learn more.