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What can you add to your Blackboard course?

You can add online lectures, multimedia, and links to websites and social media.

What are announcements in a course?

Announcements are an ideal way to post time-sensitive information critical to course success. You can add announcements to alert your students to these types of course activities: 1 Due dates for assignments and projects 2 Changes to your syllabus 3 Corrections or clarifications of materials 4 Exam schedules

What is a course calendar?

Course calendar. The calendar displays a consolidated view of all your institution, course, organization, and personal calendar events. You can view events by day, week or month. Use the course calendar to provide students with dates for course-related events. Course calendar events appear to all members of the course.

What is a syllabus in virtual classroom?

Your syllabus acts as your course planning tool. You can provide details about your course structure, participation standards, and even the social online behavior you expect in your virtual classroom. Your syllabus functions as a contract between you and your students.

What is a course roster?

Your course roster shows you a searchable list of users enrolled in your course. In the Ultra Course View, you can message anyone involved with your course. If allowed by your institution, you can enroll users in your course.

Why are online discussions important?

Online discussions provide unique benefits. Because students can take time to ponder before they post ideas, you may see more thoughtful conversations. You can observe as students demonstrate their grasp of the material and correct misconceptions.

Can you use online tests in a classroom?

Use online tests as you do in your face-to-face classroom to gauge student knowledge and progress. Based on your course view, you can choose your settings for scoring, feedback, images, extra credit, and how questions are displayed to students.

What does this mean for me?

You'll still be able to access all the content currently on our help site. Access to the help site from within the product remains the same. The layout of the pages will be updated slightly to display one course view on a single page instead of combining both. We anticipate this update being completed by May 25, 2021.

What will the new design look like?

You may be familiar with our help content, currently laid out like this:

Will the URLs change?

Our help URLs will reflect the course view in the URL when the redesign deploys. For example, the current student URL for Tests and Surveys:

Will I need to update my bookmarked pages?

Our help site platform will automatically redirect your existing bookmarked URLs to our Ultra Course View content pages. We recommend updating your bookmarks if you're using Original Course View. There's no need to update your bookmarks if you're using Ultra Course View. You'll still be able to access the other course view from each page in help.

How will I know which experience or course view my institution uses?

The information and screenshots won't change as part of the redesign. You can still use the accompanying images to determine your experience and course view. We will continue to provide information on how users can determine their course view.

What Does This Mean For Me?

• You'll still be able to access all the content currently on our help site. Access to the help site from within the product remains the same. The layout of the pages will be updated slightly to display one course view on a single page instead of combining both. We anticipate this update being completed by May 25, 2021. While we don't anticipate any ...

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What Will The New Design Look like?

Will The URLs Change?

Will I Need to Update My Bookmarked Pages?

How Will I Know Which Experience Or Course View My Institution uses?