Course Content Index

This is the main Index page for information on the course content tools and settings in Blackboard Ultra courses.

The Answers pages below contain information about specific Blackboard Ultra features and settings, including guides on how to locate and set up course tools, and troubleshooting information for common problems.

Ideas pages (listed at the bottom) contain overviews and discussions on more general online teaching and learning questions, and suggestions about how to select the best instructional tools and/or policies to meet your goals.

AI Design Assistant for Ultra Instructors — The Blackboard AI Design Assistant uses generative AI to help instructors streamline course design and content creation. Quickly create course modules, grading rubrics, test questions, and course imagery. AI generated content can be reviewed and edited. Input and generated content is not stored or used to train the AI model.
Assignments — The Assignment tool allows students to submit work to their instructor to grade, provide feedback, and include in the grade center.
Batch Edit Content — Batch edit is a tool that can be used to change visibility, release conditions, and due dates. This tool can also be used to batch delete content. Batch editing saves instructors valuable time when maintaining and updating their courses.
Content Visibility and Release Conditions — Blackboard Ultra allows instructors to control the visibility of course content by making items visible or hidden to students, or by setting content release conditions based on date time, user/group ID, or grade performance.
Copying Content — This page reviews the process for copying content in Ultra courses with special emphasis on concerns when copying Original content into Ultra.
Course Links — Course Links can be used to create multiple access points to course content without excessive scrolling and/or hunting within folders or modules.
Create Content — You can create a folder or learning module. Once created, you can expand the folder or learning module and then add content. Visit our Course Structures Answers page for guidance on how you can use modules and folders to organize your course content. Additionally, you can visit the Course Structure Gallery Answers page to see examples of courses offered at Syracuse University that demonstrate approaches other instructors are using to organize their Blackboard Ultra courses.
Exporting and Importing Course Packages — Users with edit permission on course content can export and import course packages from their Blackboard course site.
Discussions — Discussions allow students to make public posts and read and reply to each others' contributions. Discussions can be included alongside other items in the Course Content area, or organized separately in the Discussions area.
Documents — A Document allows instructors to combine a variety of material for students to view together, such as text, multimedia, and attachments. There are many options for content design with a variety of block types.
Forms — Forms in Blackboard can be used to collect feedback or information from students through different question types, like multiple choice or Likert scales. By default, forms are ungraded and don't have right or wrong answers, making them ideal for surveys or gathering opinions. However, instructors can also manually grade forms, using them as an alternative to quizzes or tests when participation or instructor evaluation is more important than correct answers
Journals
Modules and Folders — Blackboard Ultra Course View (UCV) has two primary options for organizing your course content: Folders and Modules. This document introduces both and discusses some of their key differences.
- AI Design Assistant Module Generator — This page presents how the Blackboard Ultra AI Design Assistant tool can help instructors by generating modules. The modules generated with the Ultra AI Design Assistant contain a module topic, module description, and related module image. The tool does not provide the content of the module.
Question Banks — Question Banks (formerly called Question Pools in original course view) allow instructors to store, reuse, and randomize test questions across multiple assessments.
Tests — The Test tool allows instructors to create, assign, and grade assessments with multiple questions such as a quiz or exam in Blackboard.
Text Editor — The text editor appears anywhere you can add text, such as documents, assignments, tests, discussion boards and journals.
Course Content Ideas
- Course Structure Gallery — This page provides examples from courses offered at Syracuse University to demonstrate approaches other instructors are taking in organizing their Blackboard ultra courses.
- Course Structure Tools — Blackboard Ultra features a single, central course content area. This page offers guidance on how to use modules, folders, documents, and other Ultra features to organize course content in ways that align with the needs of your curriculum and make it easier to share information with students through Blackboard.
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