Blackboard Ultra Updates & Office Hours

We're excited to share the latest updates and enhancements to Blackboard Ultra for the month of April. These improvements are designed to enhance your teaching and learning experiences.

Key Updates:

• Print Ultra Documents – save a copy of your course content offline!
• Gradebook enhancements
• Students can now easily see when they have a new grade and feedback to review
• Instructors can track whether students have reviewed their grade feedback
• Improvements to grading group assignments 

To learn more about these features and how to utilize them, please refer to the following resources:

• ⁠Video: This Month’s Ultra Updates
• Wiki: Blackboard Ultra Course View for Faculty and Organization Leaders
• Wiki: Ultra Roadmap and detailed notes on the new features

Monthly Office Hours

In this monthly series, the Academic Computing team will discuss new features in Blackboard and invite instructors to share their experiences and ideas for future development. These Office Hours are typically the second Tuesday of each month at 2pm on Zoom, following the monthly feature release.

Register today: https://events.fairfield.edu/academic-computing

We encourage you to explore these new features and incorporate them into your courses as you see fit.

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact us by emailing academiccomputing@fairfield.edu.