Latest posts from the Learning and Teaching Enhancement Unit blog

Creating Blackboard Tests for Online Exams in Ultra

Test settings have changed in Blackboard Ultra and the arrangements for conducting an exam have also been updated this year. These are the main changes: We have prepared new guidance which explains these changes fully: Blackboard Tests for In-person Exams Guide. It’s an idea to set aside enough time to prepare the test and read the […]

Weekly Resource Roundup – 27/11/2023

As leader of our PGCTHE programme, I keep an eye out for resources to help staff teach effectively. These include webinars, podcasts, online toolkits, publications and more. Topics include active learning, online/blended teaching, accessibility/inclusion, and effective learning design based on cognitive science. Below I’ve listed items that came to my attention in the past week. In the […]

November 2023 Blackboard Learn Ultra Update

The Learning and Teaching Enhancement Unit would like to highlight five enhancements for Instructors from the November Blackboard Learn Ultra Update. These enhancements are in three areas: Making your content more visual using images: 1. Image insertion option for Ultra Documents, Journals, Discussions, Assessment attempts, and Courses Images play an important role in a student’s education […]

Can’t find the item that you are after in your Blackboard Ultra Course? Try the search function.

In this blogpost we’re outlining a useful feature to help both staff and students navigate their Blackboard Courses. If you can’t find the content that you’re after or you need to navigate to an area of a course quickly, try using the search function which is available in all courses. The course search function appears […]

Weekly Resource Roundup – 14/11/2023

Blackboard Messages

Staff teaching on Blackboard courses can use the Messages tool to send messages to their students, and these are often sent by email. Because of the way that the Message tool works, all messages are sent from the e-learning support email address (bb-team@aber.ac.uk ), rather than the staff members’ personal email addresses. Replying to a […]

Weekly Resource Roundup – 2/11/2023

Weekly Resource Roundup – 23/10/2023

Panopto Captions in Welsh

Panopto’s automatic speech recognition (ASR) captions can now be added to recordings made in Welsh. To use of Welsh captioning: If your course contains both Welsh and English recordings, you should create a sub-folder to hold all the recordings for one of the languages: When you make your recordings, you must select the correct language […]

Blackboard Learn Ultra: October Update 2023

The Learning and Teaching Enhancement Unit would like to highlight four enhancements to Instructors from the October Blackboard Learn Ultra. 1. Partial credit auto-distribution for correct answers for Multiple Choice questions Multiple-choice questions with more than one correct answer are valuable assessment tools. Also known as multiple-answer or multiple-select questions, these questions assess comprehensive understanding. […]