Center for Teaching & Learning: *Ultra Course Transition Information Center*

You can use learning modules in your course as a container for organized collections of content. Modules let students navigate from one content item to the next without distractions or extra clicks. A learning module helps immerse students in the lesson or concept you're teaching.

You can set accommodations for individual students. You can exempt students from assessment due dates or time limits. Use accommodations to help students progress in the course even though they may have difficulty with some requirements.

Setting accommodations now occurs once - you no longer need to make exceptions for each assessment in your course!

What if your students have questions about some of the course content?

If you enable class conversations for individual content items, students can discuss the content with you and their classmates. They can ask for help, share sources, or answer questions others have. As the conversation develops, it appears only with the relevant content. Conversations don't appear on the discussions page.

You can enable conversations for these content items:

• Documents
• Assignments
• Group assignments
• Tests
• Group tests
• Offline submissions
• Links to teaching tools

Progress Tracking

You can enable this functionality to give your students an easy way to keep track of what they have done in each one of their courses. When enabling progress tracking later than the beginning of the term, participatory items will be retroactively marked as complete. For example, assessments submitted previously by students will be marked as complete. Non-participatory items, like Ultra documents, will still need to be manually marked by students.

You can enable progress tracking at any time during the term.

Turn progress tracking on for your course:

1. Select Courses from the Ultra navigation menu.
2. Select a Course.
3. On Details & Actions > Progress Tracking, select Turn on. 

   

4. Once the Progress Tracking panel opens, switch the toggle from off to on.
5. Save your new settings. 

Your students will now see the progress of their course. Every item like content or assessments will display a circle icon showing the progress.

• Empty when a student had not yet accessed the item
• Partially filled when a student has opened the item
• Green checkmark when the student has completed the item

Students can mark complete items like Documents, uploaded files, or links once they have opened them. For any other items like Assessments, Tests, Journals, or Discussions, the item will automatically be marked as complete when the student has submitted. When all items in a Folder or Module have been completed, the entire folder is automatically marked as complete.

Single Student Progress Report

Instructors often desire insight into the progress students are making in their course. This information helps instructors to engage early with students or adjust the course content. Blackboard has created a new single-student progress report. This report focuses on the path each student is taking in the course. In this new report instructors can view:

• The content they have created for their students
• The progress the student has made with relevant date/time stamps
• The current visibility status of each item

Instructors can access this new report:

• By selecting a single student from the Student Progress report on a content item
• By selecting a single student from the gradebook list view, Students tab, Student Progress tab
• By selecting a single student from the gradebook grid view, Student Progress tab

Image 1. Student progress report

When grading anonymously, the student's progress status is hidden until the instructor posts grades. This ensures the student’s identity remains anonymous during the grading process.

Image 2. Anonymous test progress information hidden