New Faculty Orientation to Blackboard Ultra
New to Ultra? No problem! Get your course ready for day 1
- Content
- Create modules and modules
- Upload content
- Externally link to cloud storage
- Communication
- Add instructor contact information
- Post announcements and send student emails
- Create discussion boards
- Gradebook
- Create and grade assignments
- Set up the grade book to match your grading schema
JOINING THE SESSION
This webinar will take place in a Google Meet virtual conference room. Enter the webinar up to 15 minutes before the start time. Visit the myUMBC event post and select the "Join Online Event" button to join the Google Meet session.
Prior to the Event
- For the best viewing experience, we recommend using Chrome, Brave, or Firefox, preferably the most recent updates to those browsers. Closing any unnecessary browser tabs will help conserve your bandwidth.
- If this is your first time joining one of our webinars, please review the requirements to use Google Meet. Learn how to connect your audio & video, change/blur your background, and use reactions. You can also review the accessibility support including live captions.
The session will be recorded if two or more people attend and the link will be distributed to everyone who registered. All recordings are posted to the Instructional Technology Training Archive in Panopto.
Connect with Instructional Technology
As always, if you have questions about teaching, learning, and technology at UMBC consider the following options:
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Follow the Instructional Technology & DoIT myUMBC groups