Ultra Transition Resources

The new Blackboard Learn Ultra resource website. Discover the latest Learn Ultra resources, webinars, news, best practice tips, and more—all in one convenient, centralized location.

These resources have been developed by Anthology itself to support institutions who are making or considering the move to Learn Ultra.

An Anthology Together 2023 presentation from GVSU about their experience migrating to Ultra Course View.

A description of the migration timeline used by Schoolcraft College.

A 90-minute webinar exploring the main features and functionalities of Base Navigation for Blackboard Learn.

A GVSU conference presentation given at Anthology Together 2023.

A 90-minute webinar exploring the main features and functionalities of Ultra Course View.

This 90-minute virtual webinar is designed to provide support for defining and executing a plan to adopt Learn Ultra courses. It provides valuable information and resources to ensure a smooth and easy transition and effectively communicate the changes to end-users.

This program, comprised of two 1-hour sessions, provides information and best practices to start building and preparing a course in the Learn Ultra experience.

A teaser video from Central Michigan University about Ultra Course View.

A video from Central Michigan University showing various features of Ultra Course View.

The Michigan Blackboard Users Group is a group of faculty, administrators, instructional designers, and technical support staff who use the Blackboard LMS in the state of Michigan and surrounding areas.

Led by the community user group leaders for the community. Meets on a regular basis, once every two weeks on a Thursday. The meetings feature presentations, panels, and workshops from institutions and experts.

This program is an excellent opportunity to discover (or revisit) best practices for using the Learn Ultra classroom to engage students, create content, and more. Explore the Learn Ultra experience from both the learner and educator viewpoint, examining the efficient workflows Learn Ultra, and the Ultra classroom tools provide.

Add suggestions for new Blackboard features/capabilities and vote on your favorite ideas!

Includes links to recordings of Ultra training sessions.

Blackboard's explanation of available features administrators will need to consider turning on/off in their Ultra environment.

A brief list of features and functionality in Blackboard that are "better" in Ultra.

This is the basic template provided to all GVSU faculty in the course shells, current as of 11/14/23. The file is provided as a Blackboard course export package.

Zipped Ultra course package file that can be imported into Learn.

A presentation by Kelley Senkowski, from Grand Valley State University.

Examples of teaching and course design practices along with specific tools and technologies targeted to support student success.

Zipped Ultra course package file that can be imported into Learn.

These are samples of information postcards and posters that GVSU used to promote the Ultra migration to their campus community.

An event hosted at Grand Valley celebrating the one year anniversary of their transition to Ultra, with an emphasis on helping faculty take greater advantage of what Ultra can do.

An infographic-style handout provided to new instructors to point them towards resources for beginning to teach with Ultra.

An archive of monthly email newsletters sent to the Grand Valley community, frequently covering new features of and tips for using Blackboard Ultra.

This document walks faculty through steps they can complete in their Learn Original course sites to prepare for migrating them to Ultra.

This document describes the process for converting an Original Course to Ultra.

A document that walks faculty through possibly using some of the new features in Ultra.

A checklist for faculty to complete after moving their Learn Original courses into Ultra.

A checklist for faculty to help them track their Ultra training.

This page from GVSU collected testimonials from faculty about their use of Ultra.

A testimonial video from Grand Valley students about their experiences using Ultra.