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(Bb Ultra) Add a Document
For folks familiar with classic Blackboard, Documents represent the Ultra version of an item. With a Document you can add a number of text blocks...
(Bb Ultra) Add a Folder
Click the + button at the point in your Course Content section where you want to add the folder. Choose CONTENT this will open the right-hand...
(Bb Ultra) Add a Link to Textbox Content
The Blackboard's toolbar makes adding a link to the contents of any textbox -- be it a discussion board post, announcement, email, anything --...
(Bb Ultra) Cloud Storage
If you'd like students to have acces to a file saved in your Detroit Mercy OneDrive, or your personal Google Drive, or what have you, you can get...
(Bb Ultra) Conditional Availability
Items in Blackboard can be made visible to students, hidden from students, or be set to not visible until certain conditions -- a date and/or a grade...
(Bb Ultra) Copy Content
Ultra-style course sites use the same process for copying in content, whether you're copying last year's an entire course into this years or...
(Bb Ultra) Export Course Contents
Export Package generates a zip file containing the course information which can be stored, shared, and imported into another Blackboard course site...
(Bb Ultra) Import a Course Package
If you've used Export Package in Blackboard to generate and download a zip file containing the course information, at some point you'll...
(Bb Ultra) Learning Module
Learning Modules function much like folders, in that they are containers you can put items and activities in. Students can navigate a learning module...
(Bb Ultra) Link
Web links are an easy way to point your students to content on another web site. You can use web links to point your students to videos on Stream,...
(Bb Ultra) Module or Folder?
Blackboard Ultra's Course Content section has two "Container" types - Modules and Folders. Although they appear very similar in the...
(Bb Ultra) Move an item
Moving content items around in Blackboard Ultra is a click-and-drag process. First, click on the up-down arrow on the right side of the item you wish...
(Bb Ultra) Upload a File
The UPLOAD tool lets you upload one or more files from your computer to Blackboard. Just click the add button and choose UPLOAD. Use the...
(Bb Ultra) Upload a File Using Text Editor
On occasion, you may need to upload a file to Blackboard. You may be submitting a paper you've written in Word via the Assignment tool, or...
Add a link to to textbox content
The Blackboard's toolbar makes adding a link to the contents of any textbox -- be it a discussion board post, announcement, email, anything --...
Add a Web Link
If you want to provide students with a single link to another web site, the Web Link tool is the easiest method. To add a web link, choose Web...
Adding an Item – Text, Files, Images, and More
Whether building or maintaining a course site, one of the most common activities is adding files and blocks of text. Depending on the content...
Adding color to Blackboard items
Most Blackboard items allow you to change their label color using a simple color picker. To change the label color, click the default (black) color...
Advanced adaptive release options
Advanced adaptive release lets you create multiple rules, each of which can include membership, date, and / or grade critera. This is useful, for...
Creating a Blackboard folder (and putting things in it)
Just like on your desktop (or laptop or even in your filing cabinet), Blackboard folders are the best way to organize content and keep similar items...
Download all files from course content areas
Blackboard makes it easy to download all the files from a course at once. First, you'll need to navigate to the course's file library....
Link to a Source in the Libraries' Catalog
The Detroit Mercy Libraries' subscription databases provide the University community with online remote access to a vast selection of articles...
Missing content? Make sure Edit Mode is on
If it appears that content has vanished from your course, most often this is because EDIT MODE has been turned off. The EDIT MODE indicator and...
Reordering items on Blackboard
Most things on Blackboard (menu items, announcements, folders, files, items, discussion board forums) can easily be reorganized. In most cases, the...
Setting conditional availability with Adaptive Release
It's easy to set a Blackboard item or assessment so it becomes available at a certain time. There may be times, however, when you want to make an...
Share a file from OneDrive through Blackboard
It's easy to share files you've created or saved to OneDrive. Simply, select a file from youru OneDrive file list by clicking the circular...
Standard options
The Standard Options are the same on pretty much everything you add to Blackboard. If you’d like to make the content available to students,...
Using web folders in Blackboard
When a web folder is set up, all of your course files can be managed from your desktop, dragging in content from multiple drives or folders and...