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Blackboard Ultra has built-in reports that instructors can run to view information about course usage and activity.

You can search the content available to you in the Content Collection.

YuJa is a great tool for students and instructors to upload video lectures/assignments to share with the rest of the class.

You can link to a tool, such as the main Blogs page — or link directly to a specific instance of that tool, like a blog entry. You can also link to the overall 'Tools' area, so that students can access a list of all of the tools available in your course.

If allowed, you can control whether or not the guest and observer roles have access to your course. You also have control over the content they can see. Your institution must create the accounts and associate observers with students.

Announcements are an ideal way to post time-sensitive information critical to course success.

Steps to make a Blackboard course or organization available for a specific user.

How to create a link in your Blackboard course to other users' public or shared YuJa videos.

You can control when your course is private—or unavailable—to your students. For example, you may not want students to access your course during the building process.

This method allows you to make a copy of your course on your computer or a CD-Rom. If you are developing a course or making major revisions to a course, you may wish to make a copy as a backup.

Information on allowing downloads for all recordings published in a Course Media Channel, removing the need to individually activate downloads on recordings.

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.

Exam Proctoring ensures the security of student exams taken from remote locations. Exam Proctoring also allows the instructor to provide tools to record video. The Proctor Recorder also ensures that the recording is only securely allocated to a centralized instructor folder which will avoid distribution of the exam recording by the student.

This article contains links to Blackboard's help site for various areas of the student experience in a Blackboard Ultra course.

Steps for where and how to purchase course textbooks.