Ultra Engagement Tools

Engagement Tools

Engagement tools are used to increase student motivation, as well as meet RSI requirements for online courses. Blogs, Glossary and Wikis have been discontinued in Blackboard Ultra.

Announcements

1. Create an announcement
2. Schedule an announcement
3. Edit, copy, or delete an announcement

Discussions

1. Create a Discussion
2. How to Make Discussions Visible to Students
3. Auto-Generate Discussions
4. Setting Up a Discussion
5. Allow Students to Create Their Own Discussions
6. Grade Discussions
7. Class Level Discussion Analysis
8. Student Level Discussion Analysis
9. Types of discussion analysis metrics
   • Substantive posts
   • Sentence complexity
   • Lexical variation
   • Critical thinking
   • Word variation
10. Hide discussion analysis
11. Why don't I see data?
12. Assigning a Group to a Discussion
13. Respond or Follow a Discussion
14. Discussion Forums vs Threads

Journals

1. Create a Journal
2. Auto-Generate Journals
3. Open a Journal
4. Navigate the Participation and Grades & Participation tabs
5. View entries and comments
6. Edit and manage journals
7. Grade a Journal

Conversations

1. Enabling Conversations
2. Create an AI Conversation

Groups

1. Create course groups
2. Create custom groups
3. Create randomly assigned groups
4. Create self-enrollment groups
5. Reuse groups
6. Course Groups page
7. Manage individual groups
8. Add and delete groups
9. Manage student membership
10. Course groups and conversion