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 […]

Reading Time: < 1 minutes   I have recently been involved in the Learn Ultra Project that has been tasked to upgrade Learn Original, the University’s centrally supported virtual learning environment (VLE). Being part of a team that is focusing on the Ultra Base Navigation menu …