Latest posts from the Learning and Teaching Enhancement Unit blog

Weekly Resource Roundup – 27/6/2024

As leader of our PGCTHE programme, I keep an eye out for resources to help staff teach effectively. These include webinars, podcasts, online toolkits, publications and more. Topics include active learning, online/blended teaching, accessibility/inclusion, and effective learning design based on cognitive science. Below I’ve listed items that came to my attention in the past week. In the […]

Weekly Resource Roundup – 19/6/2024

Weekly Resource Roundup – 11/6/2024

Merging Courses 2024-25

Now that the 2024-25 modules are available to teaching staff, we can link them together at the module co-ordinator’s request. This process is called merging courses (previously known as parent-childing) and works with courses in Blackboard Ultra. Linking courses together is an effective way of dealing with separate courses with the same content so you […]

What’s New in Blackboard Learn Ultra – June 2024

Printing for Assessments (Tests) Instructors can now print assessments. Printing provides a convenient solution for a variety of use cases: The print option is available in Forms, Tests, and Assignments with questions. Printing also provides the option to save as PDF. To print an assessment, from Content and Settings, select Print. Note: Blackboard plan to […]

Weekly Resource Roundup – 3/6/2024

Blackboard Learn Ultra Courses 2024-25

Blackboard Learn Ultra Course Creation for 2024-25 will take place on Monday 3 June this year. After this date instructors will be able to add content and customise their new courses. We have made some improvements to the default course template based upon staff and student feedback and also enabled the AI Design Assistant. For […]

Weekly Resource Roundup – 22/5/2024

What’s New in Blackboard Learn Ultra May 2024

Please find below some of the latest enhancements from the May update of Blackboard Learn Ultra that the Learning and Teaching Enhancement Unit would like to highlight to Instructors. Supporting multiple performance criteria in release conditions Release conditions determine when students can view course content. Release conditions are on the content’s visibility setting on the […]