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Blackboard Ultra Navigation: Grades

In Ultra Base Navigation, users have access to all of their courses’ grading tasks on the global Grades page. Original and Ultra Course Views appear together in alphabetical order.

An example of a Grades page in Blackboard Ultra Navigation. The location of the Grades tab is highlighted on the left.

Instructors see a summary for each course. They see how many grades to post and the average course grade—and can begin grading from this page. Students see a list of recent grades and their overall grades for each course. Students also see newly posted grades in their activity streams.

You don’t need to maintain the base navigation’s global Grades page or manage settings for it. The system populates the page with information from all courses that users are enrolled in. Users don’t have access to any settings for the global Grades page.

To learn more visit Grades in Blackboard Ultra.

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Blackboard Ultra Navigation: Institution Page

In the Ultra experience, ACC maintains an Institution Page to broadcast important messages and links to everyone in your institution. Each user can access the Institution Page from base navigation, making it simple and quick to find out about what’s going on around campus or online.

An example of an Institution Page in Blackboard Ultra Navigation.

To learn more visit the Institution Pages in Blackboard Ultra.

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Qwickly Course Tools – Change Due Dates and Times

How to Change Due Dates and Times in Qwickly Course Tools

With Qwickly Course Tools, instructors can simplify the management of multiple courses, improve communication, and streamline repetitive tasks. This multi-purpose tool now allows instructors to easily change the due dates of various assignments after the assignment has been created.

  • From your Blackboard Ultra Navigation page, click Tools from the menu pane and select Qwickly Course Tools.

Blackboard Ultra Navigation Tools page

  • On the Qwickly Course Tools page, select Change Dates.

On the "Qwickly Course Tools" page, "Change Dates" is highlighted in red.

  • Select the Course you want to change an assignment’s date on the Change Dates page.

On the "Change Due Date" page, the course selection options are highlighted in red.

  • Once you have selected your course, you must then choose the Assignment you wish to change the date of.

On the "assignment selection" page, the area to select an assignment is highlighted.

  • Once you have selected your Assignment, click on the Due Date next to it. A calendar selection appears that you can navigate through. You may also type a Due Date in MM/DD/YYYY format.

The date adjustment screen displays a navigable calendar tool.

  • Once you have selected your Due Date, you may also adjust the Due Time in the dropdown menu next to it.

The time adjustment dropdown menu is shown, allowing you to manually adjust the due time of an assignment.

  • Once you are satisfied with your new Due Date and Due Time, you must click Save in the lower right of the screen.

An arrow points to "save" in the lower right of the screen.

  • Once you have clicked Save, your new Due Date and Due Time will be set. You should only close the window or proceed to another task when you see this final Due Dates Set confirmation.

The "Due Dates Set" screen is your confirmation of your new due date and due time.

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Submit First Day / Inclusive Access Courses

Instructors wishing to provide students with automatic access to the course textbook at a reduced rate compared to purchasing physical textbooks may consider submitting your course to use First Day/Inclusive Access.

  • Students enrolled in First Day courses will be automatically charged for the course materials through their student financial account, and access to the materials will be available on the first day of the course through Blackboard.
  • Students may choose to opt-out of the automatic billing if they plan to purchase a physical textbook or have other access to the necessary course materials.

To submit First Day/Inclusive Access course materials, complete the Google Form that is provided to instructional administrative assistants. To ensure data consistency, we ask that faculty submit First Day/Inclusive Access course materials to your department admin for them to submit at the department level.

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Unable to See Courses to Select Course Materials in AIP

If you log into the Barnes & Noble Adoption & Insights Portal, and you do not see the correct courses or are missing sections of a course that you are assigned:

Solution

The Adoption & Insights Portal does not update in real-time. Once an instructor is assigned to a course section in Colleague, the Adoption & Insights Portal will update overnight, reflecting the correct information the next day.

If, after waiting 24 hours, you still do not see the correct courses, please submit a ticket to the bookstore.

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Textbook Selection Through Barnes & Noble

The Adoption & Insight Portal (AIP) is Barnes and Noble’s textbook selection software (B&N manages ACC’s brick and mortar bookstores).

Important: Faculty Enlight is no longer used for textbook selection. The AIP replaces Faculty Enlight as of Spring 2021.

The Adoption & Insight Portal offers a more streamlined integration between ACC’s textbook selection process and B&N’s order management system than the former ordering processes in Ellucian. Using AIP will also assist students view the correct information (textbook and associated costs) when they click on the ‘Textbooks’ links provided in ACC’s online Course Schedule and ensure that B&N has the correct books/materials available for students.

Access the Barnes & Noble Adoption & Insights Portal

For additional information, view Access the Barnes & Noble Adoption & Insights Portal

Overview PDF

Download a PDF of the process for ordering textbooks using the Adoption & Insight Portal.

Faculty Intro to AIP

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Teaching & Learning Excellence Division

The Teaching & Learning Excellence Division (TLED) provides faculty support services, including teaching best practices, technology integration, service learning and internship opportunities. The support contributes to our Guided Pathways model at Austin Community College (ACC).

To learn more, view information about the TLED teams available for various types of consultations to provide just-in-time assistance and support to faculty for  their teaching.

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First Day / Inclusive Access for Barnes & Noble College LTI Tool

As an instructor for a First Day™/Inclusive Access course, you will need to add the following Tool Link in Blackboard so that students can Opt-Out of the program if they wish, during the Opt-Out period only. If the material is a Yuzu® eTextbook, students will also be able to access their title at this link.

To learn more, click Setting Up the First Day “Course Materials” LTI Link in Blackboard to read the article.

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