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Digital Excellence Award for Blackboard Ultra

Digital Excellence Award for Blackboard Ultra

Digital Transformation in SLAR are pleased to introduce the Digital Excellence Award for Blackboard Ultra for 2021/22. The Award seeks to surface and share innovative practice in digital teaching excellence through high impact use of the Blackboard Ultra VLE enabling

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Check Your Work for Plagiarism – Now Available!

Check Your Work for Plagiarism – Now Available!

The Check Your Work for Plagiarism organisation is now available on Blackboard Ultra. Students can use this area to check the originality of their assignment submission before submitting the final version to their module. It can also be used by

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External Examiner Enrolment in Blackboard Ultra

External Examiner Enrolment in Blackboard Ultra

What do External Examiners have access to in Blackboard Ultra? External Examiner is a type of Blackboard module enrolment, in the same way that module leader or student is a type of module enrolment, although with different access rights. In simple terms, an external

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Blackboard Ultra – Module Banners Now Available

Blackboard Ultra – Module Banners Now Available

Module banners are now available in Blackboard Ultra! These banners can give your modules a bit of colour and make individual modules rapidly identifiable. You will need to upload a single image, and Blackboard will use the same picture as

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New Feature in Blackboard Ultra Gradebook – Advanced Filters

New Feature in Blackboard Ultra Gradebook – Advanced Filters

A new feature has been added to the Blackboard Ultra Gradebook to help you to assess your learners. This feature allows you to filter your Gradebook by student name, group and by markable items. There is also the option to

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Managed Transition Help Guides

Managed Transition Help Guides

The Digital Transformation Team in SLAR have put together a number of help guides in order to assist staff with the transition to Blackboard Ultra. Managed Transition is what Teesside is calling the process of taking existing materials from eat.tees.ac.uk

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Blackboard Ultra – Support for Admin Teams

Blackboard Ultra – Support for Admin Teams

This is a guide for Admin Teams about Blackboard Ultra. It’s written to highlight things that are new or different compared to the old version of Blackboard. It’s not a complete explanation of how information in SITS is transferred to

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Managed Transition Help Guides

Managed Transition Help Guides

Following the implementation of the new Blackboard Ultra VLE and the series of CPD sessions, we have now created a number of help guides to assist you in the transition to the new VLE. These help guides cover a range

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Bb Ultra CPD for Teaching Staff – Bookings

Bb Ultra CPD for Teaching Staff – Bookings

The Blackboard Ultra CPD for teaching staff is now well underway. This event is a series of 4 x 1 hour ‘live’ sessions, providing colleagues with essential knowledge and understanding of Blackboard Ultra – Teesside University’s new Virtual Learning Environment

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Blackboard Ultra CPD for Teaching Staff – Bookings

Blackboard Ultra CPD for Teaching Staff – Bookings

The Blackboard Ultra CPD for teaching staff has begun! This event is a series of 4 x 1 hour ‘live’ sessions, providing colleagues with essential knowledge and understanding of Blackboard Ultra – Teesside University’s new Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) for

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