Over and above our provision of workshops on our course booking system , Blackboard provide many useful training and development resources as well as live webinars on using Ultra Course view. In order to attend and access the webinars you have to be a member of the Blackboard Community site, which only requires a short registration/login process. Once logged in to this site you will find further details on upcoming events . We have summarised some of the key ones below, but please note this does constantly change and is regularly updated on the site.
- Instructor Webinar Series
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The Instructor Webinar Series: Teaching with Blackboard from Basics to Advanced in Ultra provide a number of sessions which tend to be between 30 and 60 minutes long and are designed to help you get the most out of teaching with Blackboard (https://learn.anthology.com/instructor-webinars-live ). (Note, if you register for a webinar and cannot attend for whatever reason, you will still receive an email with a link to the recording of that session, which you can then playback in your own time.) Some upcoming live sessions have been listed below, however you should also be able to access the recordings:
- Blackboard Learn Basics Ultra (recording from 9 June 2022 )
- Creating Assessments in an Ultra Course (recording from 16 June 2022 )
- Grading in Blackboard Learn Ultra (recording from 8 June 2022 )
- Grading and Managing the Gradebook in an Ultra Course (recording from 15 June 2022 )
- Using Groups in Blackboard Learn Ultra (recording from 23 June 2022 )
- Improving Student Engagement Ultra (recording from February 2022 )
- Guide to Building Mobile Content (recording from 21 June 2022 )
- Blackboard Learn Ultra Best Practices (recording from 29 June 2022 )
- Introduction to Base Navigation:
- Using Data in Learn Ultra:
- 5 Tips for Accessibility in Digital Content
- Ultra Course Seminar
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This program consists of two 1 hour sessions on consecutive days, providing you with information and best practices to start building and preparing your courses in the Learn Ultra experience (https://community.anthology.com/groups/home/76 ).
- 7pm, 13 & 14 September 2023
- 3pm, 17 & 18 October 2023
- 7pm, 14 & 15 November 2023
- 3pm, 6 & 7 December 2023
Previous recordings can be accessed:
- Teaching in Ultra
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A short webinar providing best practices on using the Learn Ultra classroom to engage students, creating content and more (https://community.anthology.com/groups/home/142 ). Watch the recording of Teaching in Learn Ultra .
- Lecturer Webinar Series
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Lecturer Webinar Series: How to Teach with Blackboard Learn Basics
More information is available on the site: https://go.blackboard.com/lecturer-series
Access recordings of the following sessions
- How do you create and effectively use discussions in Learn Original and Ultra
- How do you create and upload content in Learn Original and in Learn Ultra
- How does Adaptive Release work in Learn Original and Conditional Availability in Learn Ultra
- How do you design and manage assessment items in Learn Original and in Learn Ultra
- How to create a marking structure and provide feedback using rubrics, audio and video in Learn Original and Learn Ultra
- How do you use the Grade Centre in Learn Original and the Gradebook in Learn Ultra?
Blackboard Supporting Resources
You may also be interested in some of Blackboard's supporting resources such as:
- Getting Started with Blackboard Learn Ultra
- Blackboard Best Practices
Remember there are always the Blackboard help pages for further information, our guides on Toolkit , or if in doubt just contact the eLearning team at the Centre for Academic Development at elearning@abdn.ac.uk .