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Communication

Effective communication in Blackboard Ultra is facilitated through announcements, course messages, discussion boards, and live chat within Collaborate. Instructors can send real-time updates and feedback, while students can stay informed and engaged. Notifications and message alerts help ensure no one misses critical information.

Course Messages

Messages can be used to keep in contact with students, both individually and to your entire course. Messages can be sent by Selecting the New Message icon beside your course on the Courses page to send a message to one-person, multiple people, group, or a class. In the Ultra Course View, begin typing and recipient names pop up.

 

Creating Announcements

You can add, edit, and delete announcements from the Announcements page. You can also record video and audio files that you can include with your announcement. Blackboard provides auto-captioning for audio and video files you create to include in announcements. You don't need to turn on this feature. When you add an announcement, you can also send it as an email to students in your course. Students will receive the announcement even if they don't log into your course.


Retrieving Student Emails from Goldmine

Sending emails With the course email tool, you can send messages from your course-to-course members' external email accounts without the need to switch to your email provider, such as Gmail or Yahoo. You can send emails to individual users or to groups of users. Email is a send-only tool. You don't receive emails in Blackboard Learn.

 

Using the Attendance Tool

On the Course Content page, select Mark attendance in the Details & Actions panel. When you access the attendance feature for the first time, you decide if you want to add attendance to your gradebook. On the Attendance page, select Add Attendance and the Settings panel opens.

 

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