Building Course Content in Ultra

Course Content in Ultra

Content Creation in Ultra shifts from folders to learning modules. This change allows both vertical and horizontal navigation of course materials. You can do the same things that you did with your content in Blackboard Original, but the look and feel are streamlined for mobile devices. Ultra also leverages the AI Design Assistant to help you create engaging images, modules. and layouts to increase student interactions.

Content Creation

Learn how to add content into a course.

1. Types of Content
2. Supported File Types
3. Adding Content
4. Making Content Visible to Students
5. Copying Content from Original to Ultra Courses
6. Adding Content from the Content Collection
7. Adding Files
8. Adding a YouTube Video
9. Uploading the Syllabus
10. Creating Web Links
11. Improving the Accessibility of Content with ALLY

Using Learning Modules

Learning modules are the basic container in Ultra but have a table of contents for easy navigation.  Learning modules move horizontally instead of vertically in the course. You can organized these learning modules in a number of way.

• Create a learning module
• Auto-generate a learning module
• Customize your learning module
• Navigate your learning module
• Student view of a learning module
• Working with Learning Modules

Note: Avoid activating Forced Sequence in a learning module. Checking Forced Sequence will impact a number of diverse student groups and reduce performance.

Working with Documents

Documents now have the same functionality as blank pages, module pages, item, audio, file, and image. Document is a page where you can add, link or embed a multiple types of content in one simple container. Documents are the foundational type of content within learning modules.

1. Creating a Document - Documents replace Items and Blank Pages.  This is the main container in which content should be added.
2. Editing, Ordering and Deleting Documents
3. Working with Knowledge Checks in Documents

Using the Text Editor

1. Adding Text and Links in the Editor
2. Working with the Math Editor

Developing Content with AI Design Assistant

1. Anthology Trust Policy
2. Auto-Generating Learning Modules
3. Generating Images - uses Unsplash images
4. Generating Document Layouts