Setting Up Blackboard Ultra Assessments & Grading

Blackboard Ultra Gradebook: Assessments & Grading

Article Index

• Ultra Gradebook
• Grading Setup
• Grading Tasks
• Create Assessments
• Assignments
• Tests, Pools, and Surveys
• Grading Analytics
   

Ultra Gradebook

Learn how to access, customize, navigate, and utilitze Ultra's Gradebook tools to assess students' learning.

Grading Setup

Learn how to set up grading in a course using grading schema, create rubrics, make accommodations, grant exceptions and exemptions, and more.

Grading Tasks

Learn all of the tools Blackboard Ultra has for doing grading tasks ranging from assigning grades, creating grading categories, delegate grading, using the new Flexible Grading tool, using Bb Annotate, proctoring services with Blackboard, and much more.

Create Assessments

Instructors create assessments to check student learning. Learn how to create and edit assignments, create tests, edit tests and questions, and create forms in Blackboard Ultra.
 

Assignments

Get started with assignments by learning how to create, edit, and grade assignments in Ultra.  Other topics include adding timers, multiple attempts, group assignments, rubrics, self/peer assessment, and using SafeAssign.

Tests, Pools, and Surveys

Get started with tests, pools, and surveys by learning how to create tests and surveys, grade tests and surveys, and see how students are doing.  Other topics include different types of questions available for tests, reusing questions by using questions banks and pools, grading with SafeAssign, enable proctoring settings, flexible and more. See note about Surveys at the bottom of this article.

• Review the Honorlock proctoring knowledgebase article on how to set up Blackboard tests/exams to be proctored.

Grading Analytics

Learn to use Blackboard's grading analytics tools to improve assessment questions and view grading history details.
 

UND supports the following platforms, which may be used in your Blackboard Ultra course to replace the Survey tool:

• Blackboard's Forms - This tool is built in to Blackboard, and may be used to build a fillable document that is functionally similar to the original survey tool; it can even be used to survey the class anonymously (just check the box in the Form Settings).
• Microsoft Forms - This application is part of the Office 365 suite, which is available for free for all students, faculty, and staff at UND. You can use either the online or the desktop version to create a form, configure its settings to ensure that it is anonymous (un-check 'Record name'), then add a link to the form in your Blackboard course.
• Qualtrics - This is an online survey platform, available for free for all users at UND. To access your account, please log in using the special UND-Qualtrics homepage. Similar to the Forms options, Qualtrics allows you to create surveys and deploy them online, but it also offers a wider variety of advanced survey-building and management features that can add complexity if you only need a simple form. After the survey has been created, you can share the link inside of your Blackboard course. Please see the Qulatrics help page for anonymization instructions and information.