Ultra Courses – Student Resources Instructions

Instruction pages provide general-purpose information and walkthroughs on how to use specific Blackboard Ultra features, functions, or settings.

Use Instruction pages if you need a step-by-step guide to accomplishing a specific task in Blackboard Ultra, if you want a technical description of a particular Blackboard Ultra tool, or if you are trying to troubleshoot a feature that is not working the way that you expected.

Student Resources Instructions

Ultra Course - Student Navigation — The menu bars at the top and left of the course page are what you use to navigate the course content, including course information, announcements posted by the instructor, as well as course readings and assignments that you need to complete.
Editing Your Student Profile — How to edit your Blackboard user profile, including accessing your user profile, changing your profile picture, and information regarding system settings
Ultra Course - Student Activity Stream and Notification Settings — Customize the notification settings under your Blackboard user profile to get alerts for different kinds of activity in Blackboard such as upcoming deadlines or grades being posted.
Ultra Course - Student Calendar — Blackboard automatically creates a calendar for each course, and can combine all of your course calendars together into a single view on the institution homepage.
Ultra Course- Student Submissions and Grades — This guide covers how to submit assignments in Blackboard, view grades and feedback, and troubleshot the submission process.
Ultra Course - Gradebook for Students — The gradebook is where students can view grades and feedback on coursework submitted in Blackboard.