Reading Time: 3 minutes Instructional Designer Lizzy Garner-Foy discusses the opportunity to improve course structure in Learn Ultra.     Through the Early Adopter programme, we have gained an in-depth understanding of the ways Learn is used across the University. Through close collaboration with Schools and Deaneries, we have explored, experimented, and improved approaches to course design and course […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes In late January 2023, after some months of planning, the Learn Ultra Professional Services User Group had its first meeting on the topic of the Learn Ultra rollout. While a Learn Academic User Group has convened in the past, the Learn Ultra project team saw some renewed need for user fora as the change in […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes In December 2022, around fifteen people convened for the first meeting of the Learn Ultra Academic User Group convened in Argyle House. While there has previously been a Learn Academic User Group, this was the first meeting of a new cohort specifically to address the rollout of Learn Ultra.   The core purpose of the User […]

Reading Time: 3 minutes As part of the Learn upgrade, all courses must move into Learn Ultra before the start of AY 23/24 teaching. More than 160 courses have already made the move as part of the Learn Ultra Early Adopter programme. Over the coming weeks, we will be publishing a series of blog posts from the Early Adopters […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes This post provides a summary of the upcoming changes including those features which we have highlighted due to their impact. For more in depth technical detail additional details are available on the release page Highlights for this release include: Exemptions You can now provide exemptions to students for particular items, students are not required to […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes January 2023 – 3900.56 Release This post provides a summary of the upcoming changes including those features which we have highlighted due to their impact. For more in depth technical detail additional details are available on the release page Highlights for this release include: See and edit marks for anonymous submissions prior to posting In […]

Reading Time: < 1 minutes As part of the move to Learn Ultra, the project team is working closely with all Schools and Deaneries to migrate courses to Learn Ultra for the start of teaching AY 22/23. A sizable number of courses have already moved to Ultra Course View this academic year, with content successfully migrated over summer 2022 and […]

Reading Time: 2 minutes The option to turn on progress tracking is now available to course instructors, however by default it is not enabled. It therefore requires manual intervention to turn progress tracking on for any course, this can be done at any time (and turned off again too) and requires two simple steps, one to select the option […]

Reading Time: < 1 minutes Learn Ultra Base Navigation (UBN) a system menu giving access to information across Blackboard Learn courses, is due to be rolled out by the end of June 2022. It is the first phase of our upgrade to Learn Ultra and provides improved navigation, as well…

Reading Time: 7 minutes Learn Ultra is the newest version of Learn, the University’s Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). The University is planning a phased upgrade to Learn Ultra as part of the VLE Excellence programme and the wider University 2030 Strategy and Digital Strategy. As part of a programme of user experience (UX) activities to support the upgrade of […]