Blackboard is UND's Learning Management System connecting students, faculty and staff both inside and outside of the classroom. It is used for courses, organizations, committees, departments and groups.
Please contact the instructor to have them clear or ignore the attempt in Blackboard.
The content editor is a platform-independent WYSIWYG editor based on TinyMCE and licensed as Open Source under LGPL from Moxiecode Systems AB. The content editor has a large number of new and enhanced features and serves as a replacement for the old text editor.
To view grades for all of your courses, select the arrow next to your name in the upper-right corner. In the menu, select My Grades. You can sort your grades by All Courses or Last Graded. If your work hasn't been graded, grade status icons appear.
Steps to submit your Blackboard assignments.
This article contains availability dates for students and instructors, and information for students who would like to request continued access.
You can add files, images, audio, and video when you create content in your course. For example, in discussions, you can browse for a media clip from your computer or your course's file repository: Course Files or the Content Collection.
Ally creates alternative files that are easier to use by all students. Ally works within your online course so it's available right where you need it.
You can access the NEW calendar from the Ultra Base Navigation menu (the main menu, outside of your courses, seen immediately after login) -or- access the CLASSIC calendar from the Tools menu inside any of your courses. The new calendar has an improved user interface, but you may opt to use the in-course calendar. Please see this article for more information about using both versions.
The main discussion board page displays a list of forums. A forum is where participants discuss a topic or a group of related topics. Within each forum, users can create multiple threads. A thread includes the initial post and all replies to it. You can create forums and threads to organize discussions into units or topics relevant to your course.
Best practices for taking exams in Blackboard.
My Blackboard and the user menu are available everywhere in Blackboard Learn and give you a personalized view of your learning environment.
If a user is unable to log in to their Blackboard account, or if their course is not listed on the Bb Courses page, please see this article for troubleshooting steps.
Information about the Blackboard app for mobile devices. This app uses Blackboard Ultra's Responsive Web Design to offer the same features as the desktop version of the website, making it easy to jump back and forth between mobile and desktop.
Using old/unsupported browsers may cause problems with Blackboard's text editor. Use the included links to check your browser version and update/install, if needed.
A description of a known issue in Bb Ultra courses: Students' file submissions may fail to attach/upload when completing an assignment. This article outlines the solution.
Blackboard has a file size limit of 2560 MB. For videos and other larger files, please see this article for more information about other file hosting options.
The default email address used in Blackboard is your campus email address as listed in Campus Connection (students) or business email in HRMS (faculty/staff).
You can review the grades and feedback on your My Grades page. You can also access the assignment's Review Submission History page and review the grade and feedback in context. Assignments aren't graded automatically. Your instructor must grade each assignment.
Steps to check that your assignment has been submitted in Blackboard.
You and your students can create journal entries. You're the only one who can comment on students' private entries. You and group members can comment on group entries. On the Journals listing page, information is provided about each journal. Students can see if their entries are private—between the student and you—or public.
You can access tasks from the Tools link on the course menu or in the tasks module on the course Home Page. Your instructor can also add a customized link to tasks on the course menu.
This article for students and instructors explains how users can choose which course's notifications they get, as well as the format they receive them in.
This article explains how to view and edit your personal profile information in Blackboard.
Your instructor can add assignments to different areas of your course. You might access assignments from a link on the course menu called Assignments. Or, your instructor might incorporate assignments into each week's content. Ask your instructor if you have questions about how your course is organized.
This article contains links to Blackboard's help site for various areas of the student experience in a Blackboard Ultra course.
These step-by-step instructions will show you how to locate and open your course's Blackboard site.
Please contact your instructor. UND Tech Support is not able to reopen exams or quizzes.
KNOWN ISSUE / PROBLEM with the Exam Feedback feature in Blackboard. There has been a change to the feedback functionality, and this may present a challenge to exam integrity. Please see the following article for a description of the problem and proposed work-arounds.
Learn more about UND's new, redesigned Learning Management System, Blackboard Learn Ultra.
Instructions for students and instructors: How to access the Course page and navigate to your courses in Blackboard, view information about your courses, search and filter courses by term and course role, and customize your view of the Course page using the settings.
An overview the the process that instructors must follow to use Respondus Exam Authoring tool with Blackboard Ultra course sites.
This article contains information for students on using the Respondus LockDown browser. Respondus LockDown Browser is a custom web browser that locks down the testing environment within Blackboard; test-takers are unable to print, copy, go to another URL, or access other applications. When an assessment is started, students are locked into it until they submit for grading. It is compatible with Mac and Windows.
Instructors can use the SafeAssign service to check submitted assignments for originality. SafeAssign compares your submitted assignments against a set of academic papers to identify areas of overlap between the submitted assignment and existing works.
When you send email from your course, the recipients receive it in their external email accounts, such as BobSmith@yahoo.com. Replies go to your email account, not to the course. You may want to set up a filter or message rule to easily group your course email into a single folder in your personal inbox.
Copy Blackboard calendar events to your external/personal calendar: Follow these steps to automatically send scheduling information from Bb to any 3rd-party calendar that accepts .ics URLs as a source. Once it's configured, you can see all of your events in one place and be informed about upcoming Bb due dates without logging in. NOTE: Refresh rate depends on 3rd-party calendar, updating once every 1-24 hours. Not every class uses Bb calendar. Events only copy *from Bb to the external calendar.
Instructors can create groups of students within courses. Groups usually consist of a small number of students for study groups or projects. These groups have their own collaboration areas in the course so that they can communicate and share files.
Your instructor places you in a group or allows you to select the group you want to join. Your instructor chooses which communication and collaboration tools are available to your group.
Steps for students to create a Blog entry on their Blackboard course site.
You can only submit a SafeAssign assignment once. If you want to edit, delete, or resubmit a SafeAssign assignment, contact your instructor and request that they clear your first submission. Please note that there is a file size limit of 10MB. If your submission is larger than 10MB, SafeAssign won't be able to process it.
If you find that your TurningPoint clicker is not syncing with your Blackboard course, you have probably set the account up using @NDUS.edu instead of @UND.edu.
Audience response systems (clickers) allow students in the classroom to instantly provide feedback, answer questions, and vote. TurningPoint is the standard adopted by the University of North Dakota.
The latest versions of Microsoft Edge offer the ability to open office files in the browser using Microsoft's Office.com. When this option is enabled, attempting to open Office documents from Blackboard may result in an HTTP 404 error, or the Word online application opens but displays the message "Sorry, there was a problem and we can't open this document. If this happens again, try opening the Document in Microsoft Word"
A Quick-Start Guide Instructors - covering how to set up Microsoft OneNote's integration with your Blackboard course site. Students (and instructors) can collaborate and submit written assignments using this virtual shared notebook. Adjust the settings to provide a private, independent workspace, if desired.
For students submitting a SafeAssign-enabled assignment: This article explains how you can view your submission's SafeAssign Originality report (option available only if enabled by the instructor).
Student population into a Blackboard course after enrolling through Campus Connection is not an instantaneous process. Batch enrollments are processed roughly every two hours between 6am and 6pm, Central Time, and can take about an hour to complete. Processing times may vary during high enrollment windows.
The timing of Blackboard access and course access may be different for Enroll Anytime (independent study) and non-credit courses as well as certain certificate programs.