SU2023 Courses Created in Blackboard on April 27, 2023
Blackboard course shells for SU2023 were created on April 27, 2023.
UMBC is committed to providing a consistent learning experience for everyone. The Ultra Course Preview setting is again enabled in SU2023 courses, which allows faculty to convert a new Original course to see what it looks like in Ultra and adopt Ultra. The last day we will support Blackboard Original is December 31, 2024.
- Please review the release notes for the latest Ultra updates as well as feature parity charts -- more than 150 new updates and enhancements were added over the year including multiple grading schema, assessment exemptions, drag & drop improvements, course content search, hot spot and extra credit questions, student progress tracking, points-based gradebook and rubrics, question banks, and more!
- Learn more about What's New in Ultra for Teaching & Learning on May 17, 2023.
- Enroll in our self-paced workshop, Ultra for Instructors, designed to provide a starting point to help you prepare your courses in Ultra.
- Have a question about Ultra? Ask an Ultra Ambassador!
- For all other resources about Ultra, please visit: umbc.edu/go/ultra
Ally, an accessibility tool, is always enabled in all course shells. Ally automatically scans uploaded and created course content, then performs a series of steps to make that content more accessible. Please review the Ally FAQs for more information about the accessibility indicators on course content and alternative formats.
For faculty who will be teaching hybrid or online, the instructional technology team would like to share several resources to support online course development and instruction.
- Choose from our PIVOT Solo lessons to refresh or enhance your online teaching preparation. Five key topics cover course organization, active learning, community building, assessment, and supporting students.
- Explore our Panopto folder for a wide variety of recorded webinars on various instructional technologies available at UMBC.
- If you are an instructor, and your name is not associated with the course you are teaching in the SOC, please see your Departmental Scheduling Coordinator to resolve the issue. Once you are listed in the SOC, your Bb course shell will be created automatically.
- If you and your Department Scheduling Coordinator believe you are correctly assigned as the instructor of record in the SOC and you do not see your course shell in Blackboard, please submit a Request Tracker (RT) ticket via my.umbc.edu/help.
- If you need a Bb shell for a research or independent study course, please submit a new course request.
Instructors who teach multiple sections of the same course will find those enrollments merged into one Bb course shell. These sections may be split upon request by an RT ticket, which we recommend submitting at least one week before the semester starts, if not as soon as courses are created in Blackboard. NOTE: Courses should not be split after student grade data and engagement activity is recorded since it will be purged as part of the separation process.
Student enrollment in Bb mirrors the official registration in SA and updates hourly. However, courses are not accessible to students by default until the instructor of record makes them available.
Connect with Instructional Technology
As always, if you have any questions about teaching, learning, and technology at UMBC, consider the following options:
Follow the Instructional Technology & DoIT myUMBC groups
Posted: April 27, 2023, 11:18 AM