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.
This article contains availability dates for students and instructors, and information for students who would like to request continued access.
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. 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 Ultra's calendar.
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.
Blackboard Help Center information on Blackboard Learn Original Course View
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.
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).
How to copy content from a previous semester's course into your new Blackboard Ultra course. Instructors may select individual items, or move the entire course's content at once (Ultra-to-Ultra only).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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"
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.