Blackboard Ultra

Phase I SPS Early Adopters

Phase I: SPS Early Adopters

Hello team and thank you for being early Blackboard Ultra adopters!

We are excited to move our organization to Blackboard Learn Ultra Course View, a flexible learning management system designed by educators for educators. Making software changes to an organization can be a complicated process, but we want to assure you we are here for you every step of the way.

Training sessions and additional rollout details will be available shortly. In the meantime, we encourage you to get a first look at some of Ultra’s key features by watching this watch this short preview video:

Enroll in a self-paced Blackboard Teaching Essentials course. This course provides a good overview of how to use Blackboard Ultra including how to design your course, add content and assignments, set up your gradebook, and communicate with students. The course is available for free on Anthology Academy but requires you to create a profile as described in the following instructions.

Instructions:

  1. Click on this link Anthology Academy. The following will appear:
    Anthology Academy Sign up
  2. To begin your profile/account, click on the View Course Catalog & Sign up link.
  3. Upon completion of registering your profile, enter Blackboard Teaching Essentials in the Search Catalog field.
  4. You will need to enroll in the course, and you will have 180 days to complete the course. The course will appear in your Dashboard.
  5. Once you are registered to the Anthology Academy, you can use the direct link to access the Blackboard Teaching Essentials Course.
  6. Again, the course is asynchronous so complete it at your own pace and it will produce a Certificate of Attendance.

Support:

In addition to the self-paced course, Anthology and our team will be holding Instructor-led training sessions and Drop-In Office Hours will be available throughout the rollout.  More details to come.

For assistance,  please reach out to us by contacting our service desk at RequestIT@wcsu.edu, or submitting a ticket via our service portal.