As the ACC Learning Management System, Blackboard provides countless features and tools to deliver your class either fully-online or in a hybrid format.

Articles (49)

Blackboard Ultra Base Navigation: Messages

This article outlines how to navigate the Blackboard Ultra Messages page, check unread message notifications, and manage communication across courses.

Blackboard Ultra Navigation: Activity Page

This article outlines how to navigate the Blackboard Ultra Activity Stream, track course updates and deadlines, and customize notification preferences.

Blackboard Ultra Navigation: Calendar

This article outlines how to navigate the global Blackboard Ultra Calendar, schedule events and office hours, and track course due dates across daily and monthly views.

Blackboard Ultra Navigation: Courses

This article outlines how to navigate the Blackboard Ultra Courses page, manage course visibility settings, and customize course card layouts.

Blackboard Ultra Navigation: Grades

This article outlines how to navigate the global Blackboard Ultra Grades page, review course grade summaries, and access grading tasks across all courses.

Blackboard Ultra Navigation: Institution Page

This article outlines how to navigate the Blackboard Ultra Institution Page to access campus-wide announcements, updates, and institutional resources.

Blackboard Ultra Navigation: Profile

This article outlines how to navigate the Blackboard Ultra Profile page, customize personal details and profile pictures, and access global notification settings.

Blackboard Ultra Navigation: Tools

This article outlines how to navigate the Blackboard Ultra Tools page to access global functions and system-wide features outside of individual courses.

Blackboard Ultra: Add a Photo to your Learning Module

This article outlines how to upload, position, and configure accessibility settings for learning module images in Blackboard Ultra.

Blackboard Ultra: Add A Weighted Overall Grades Calculation

This article outlines how to set up and configure a weighted overall grade calculation in Blackboard Ultra, including category weighting options, drop score rules, item exclusions, and grade display preferences.

Blackboard Ultra: Add Course Evaluation Link

This article outlines how to add, position, and manage student visibility for the Course Evaluations link on the Course Content page in Blackboard Ultra.

Blackboard Ultra: Add Zoom (or other Tools) to Content Page

This article outlines how to add and position external tools, such as Zoom, on the Course Content page using the Books & Course Tools menu in Blackboard Ultra.

Blackboard Ultra: Assignment Settings Explained

This article outlines how to configure assignment settings in Blackboard Ultra, including due dates, late submission rules, attempt limits, grading schemas, category assignments, and class conversations.

Blackboard Ultra: Create Content

This article outlines how to add, upload, and auto-generate course content items such as learning modules, assignments, and documents in Blackboard Ultra.

Blackboard Ultra: Creating Custom Groups

This article outlines how to create group sets, configure student assignment methods, and manage student membership across custom, random, and self-enrollment groups in Blackboard Ultra.

Blackboard Ultra: Edit Grading Schemas

This article outlines how to create, edit, copy, and manage custom grading schemas and grade ranges in Blackboard Ultra.

Blackboard Ultra: Edit, Reorder, and Delete Assignments

This article outlines how to reorder, edit, delete, and hide assignments on the Course Content page while managing impacts on student submissions and Gradebook data.

Blackboard Ultra: Enabling Respondus LockDown Browser

This article outlines how to enable and configure Respondus LockDown Browser settings for assessments in Blackboard Ultra.

Blackboard Ultra: Enabling Respondus Monitor

This article outlines how to enable and set up Respondus Monitor to record student webcams and review automated proctoring results for Blackboard Ultra assessments.

Blackboard Ultra: Getting Started with Qwickly Attendance

This article outlines how to complete the initial setup of Qwickly Attendance to track attendance via manual lists or student check-ins and integrate automated grading with the Blackboard Ultra Gradebook.

Blackboard Ultra: Grade History Reports

This article outlines how to configure, download, and review Grade History reports containing student assessment data and submission attempt logs in Blackboard Ultra.

Blackboard Ultra: Gradebook Grid View

This article outlines key Blackboard Ultra Gradebook updates, including the new Grade and Assessment Details panels, inline grade entry, student display and sorting options, and enhanced Gradebook filters.

Blackboard Ultra: How to Batch Edit Due Dates

This article outlines how to use the Batch Edit feature in Blackboard Ultra to adjust, shift, or remove due dates for multiple assignments, assessments, and content items within a single course.

Blackboard Ultra: How to Batch Edit Student Visibility

This article outlines how to use the Batch Edit feature in Blackboard Ultra to update student visibility settings across multiple course items simultaneously.

Blackboard Ultra: How to Copy Content

This article outlines how to manage course availability and copy entire courses, individual folders, or specific items in Blackboard Ultra.

Blackboard Ultra: How to Create a Test

This article outlines how to create a test in Blackboard Ultra, add question content, and configure assessment settings including due dates and submission options.

Blackboard Ultra: How to Create an Assignment

This article outlines how to create an assignment, add instructions and supporting files, and adjust settings like due dates in Blackboard Ultra.

Blackboard Ultra: How to Enable Conversations

This article outlines how to enable and access item-specific class conversations on assignments and documents in Blackboard Ultra.

Blackboard Ultra: How to Reuse Questions for a Test

This article outlines how to search, filter, and copy existing questions, question banks, and assessment content into tests and assignments in Blackboard Ultra.

Blackboard Ultra: How to Send Messages to Students

This article outlines how to send and manage messages from global navigation or within a course, deliver email copies, and track conversation threads in Blackboard Ultra.

Blackboard Ultra: Integrating Qwickly Attendance in Gradebook & Grading Attendance

This article outlines how to integrate Qwickly Attendance with Blackboard Ultra’s Gradebook to automatically calculate and update attendance grades based on session or absence scoring parameters.

Blackboard Ultra: Introduction to LockDown Browser

This article outlines the core functionality of Respondus LockDown Browser and how it secures assessment testing environments in Blackboard Ultra.

Blackboard Ultra: Learning Modules

This article outlines how to create and manage learning modules in Blackboard Ultra to group, sequence, and organize course content, files, and assessments.

Blackboard Ultra: Qwickly Attendance Student View & Adding Comments

This article outlines how students view their own attendance records and how to add comments to individual attendance entries in Qwickly Attendance.

Blackboard Ultra: Reorder Content

This article outlines how to reorder and nest content on the Course Content page using drag-and-drop within up to three levels of folder hierarchy.

Blackboard Ultra: Respondus LockDown Browser Quick Start Guide

This article provides access to the quick start guide for configuring and securing test environments using Respondus LockDown Browser and Respondus Monitor in Blackboard Learn.

Blackboard Ultra: Send Reminders to Students

This article outlines how to send submission reminders from the Gradebook to students or groups who have not yet submitted coursework in Blackboard Ultra.

Blackboard Ultra: Setting Custom Status in Qwickly Attendance

This article outlines how to create and configure custom attendance statuses, absence weights, and point values in Qwickly Attendance to establish tailored grading and participation scales.

Blackboard Ultra: Taking Attendance Manually on Qwickly Attendance

This article outlines how to manually record attendance using List mode and One by One mode in Qwickly Attendance within Blackboard Ultra.

Blackboard Ultra: Taking Qwickly Attendance by Groups or with a Timer

This article outlines how to record attendance by course group or section and configure timed student check-in sessions using Qwickly Attendance.

Blackboard Ultra: View Student Activity Details for Assessments

This article outlines how to access and review assessment student activity details, such as submission times, time spent, attempt counts, and grade status in Blackboard Ultra.

Quickly Course Tools - Set Course Availability

This article outlines how to make multiple Blackboard Ultra courses available or unavailable to students using Qwickly Course Tools.

Qwickly Course Tools - Change Due Dates and Times

This article outlines how to update assignment due dates and times across Blackboard Ultra courses using Qwickly Course Tools.

Qwickly Course Tools - Check Links

This article outlines how to scan for and repair broken links across multiple Blackboard Ultra courses using Qwickly Course Tools.

Qwickly Course Tools - Create An Assignment

This article explains how to create and deploy assignments across multiple Blackboard Ultra courses using Qwickly Course Tools.

Qwickly Course Tools - Create Content

This article outlines how to create and deploy course content, including items, files, and external links, across multiple Blackboard Ultra courses using Qwickly Course Tools.

Qwickly Course Tools - Creating Calendar Event

This article outlines how to create and schedule calendar events across multiple Blackboard Ultra courses using Qwickly Course Tools.

Qwickly Course Tools – Post an Announcement

This article outlines how to create, schedule, and email announcements across multiple Blackboard Ultra courses using Qwickly Course Tools.

Qwickly Course Tools - Sending an Email

This article details how to send emails to entire classes or specific roles across multiple Blackboard Ultra courses using Qwickly Course Tools.