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In structuring a Blackboard course, due dates for assessments and visibility date ranges for folders, items, and other components, are a key part of ensuring proper deployment and notification to students. The "Batch Edit" tool allows Course Instructors and admins to view and alter these dates in a centralized area. This is especially useful in courses which contain many components containing visibility or due dates. This article documents both where to find and how to use this feature.

On May 18, 2024, Blackboard was updated from Learn Original to Ultra Base Navigation. The update significantly changed navigational components between courses and provides new consolidated areas for viewing and managing courses and grades, as well as an activity feed that provides updates. This article showcases what changed, and demonstrates several basic functions and actions. Note that this article does not cover the changeover to Blackboard Ultra Courses.

Faculty can determine whether their Blackboard courses is "Open" or "Closed" to their students, and may choose to close access to the course prior or following a term. When technical assistance such as a course copy is performed by IT, courses are set to be closed from student access to allow the requesting faculty to review/finalize their content before making the course available. This article for Instructors demonstrates how to set student visibility for an entire Blackboard Ultra course.

One of the major changes between Blackboard Original and Blackboard Ultra is the Gradebook, replacing the Grade Center. This tool has become more robust, with more features for grading and tracking progress. In August 2026, additional elements of the Gradebook in Ultra have been updated, and new resources were developed to support faculty on how to use this area of their course. This article provides access to training and information on the Gradebook in Blackboard Ultra for faculty usage.

Blackboard Ultra has several reports that can be run, as well as many analytic options available for instructors to help keep track of student progress and assessment. This article covers how to access and run these reports/analytics.

Using Blackboard Tests, faculty can assess students by creating quizzes, exams or tests that can utilize a variety of question types, include a timer, allow visibility control options, and provide students with feedback and results in a manner that is controlled by the faculty member. This article includes resources that cover the steps for setting up, configuring, and deploying tests on Blackboard.

Blackboard's Name Pronunciation feature allows all users (Students, faculty or staff) to type out and record audio of how they would prefer their displayed name to be pronounced, which appears alongside their Blackboard Avatar on Discussion postings, Groups, Class rosters, and in Grading areas. This article provides steps for users to enable this feature, and shows where it displays for both faculty and for students.

If you are an instructor and wish to use Zoom for your course, we have added an integration that allows you to set up/schedule Zoom Meetings for your course within your Blackboard shell. This article demonstrates how to add this link to your Blackboard course.

The Attendance feature on Blackboard helps instructors manually keep track of their students' attendance in a class, and creates a grade center column, allowing for calculation of an attendance grade. The tool itself has many different functions and ways to use it. This article introduces the Attendance tool and showcases how it works and can be accessed, as well as what settings are available within the tool.

This document describes the policy regarding classroom technology requests.

When sending out an email message to a large group of people within a distribution list, your goal is to make sure as many people on that list can see and choose to open your message as possible. This article covers several best practices for forming an email message in a way that mitigates recipients rejecting your message and/or marking the message as malicious or spam.

This article will provide guidance and best practices for suggestions on how to prepare your classes in advance of a disruption, and procedures you can follow to ensure you are still able to reach and teach your students if any shutdown or incident prevents your class from assembling on campus.

This article contains information on how Course Instructors and Administrators can generate and retrieve course evaluation reporting data using Watermark Course Evaluations and Surveys.

Google Drive is a place where you can store, retrieve, organize, and share files. It’s in the cloud, so it can be accessed anywhere and anytime, from any computer or mobile device, by using your Saint Peter’s email address and password to log in. This training will cover the basics of Drive - how to access it, how to upload files, how to download files, how to create folders and organize files, and how to share files with others.

Apporto is used to access software available to the Saint Peter’s community from your web browser. This article describes how to access and use individual virtualized software applications via Apporto. For a better experience, you may wish to choose the Apporto Desktop, which will allow you to run one or more Apporto applications within a simulated PC interface.