More UMBC students like Ultra and want Ultra courses 86% of UMBC students express satisfaction with Ultra In a survey of 608 students taking Ultra courses during the SP2021 semester, 86% indicated satisfaction with Ultra, marking a 14% increase compared to the last survey in FA2019. Students again praised Ultra for its clean interface, modern feel, and easy access. When asked to compare Ultra to the Original Blackboard interface, 74% of students said they liked it, which is a 17% increase from FA2019. “Ultra makes everything really easy to find and use,” said one student. “It’s a major step up from the old Blackboard system.”

86 percent of students said they were satisfied with Ultra courses

Figure 1: 86% of students said they were satisfied with Ultra courses.


Nearly 88% of SP2021 students agreed they could find Ultra tools on their own, a 14% increase compared to FA2019. These tools included assignments, tests, discussions, and group work. One student said, “The technology did not hinder [my] education.” 

SP2021 students did observe more course organization in Ultra courses, recognizing many faculty efforts following training over the last year. “The way a course is organized is super important,” said one student. These observations are consistent with feedback from students taking PIVOT courses, which are praised for organization and clear information. Course evaluations and LMS interactions are also higher in courses where instructors have training and consistent structure.

However, as with our previous survey, students did observe challenges with Ultra courses. Some student satisfaction with finding actual course content and files remained relatively the same between FA2019 and SP2019 at less than one percent. “If there are a lot of files and content in each folder,” reported one student, “it takes longer to access and navigate.” 

Over the last academic year, usage increased to more than forty percent of active Blackboard courses. More than 89% of faculty who responded to the SP2021 Ultra survey indicated they would use Ultra again, which was an increase of 21% from faculty who responded two years earlier. DoIT continues to monitor Ultra adoption through the 10th day of each new semester as well as Ultra feature development. 

As always, if you have any questions about teaching, learning, and technology, please consider the following options:


~ by Mariann Hawken

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As the University prepares for a return to campus this Fall, DoIT’s Audio-Visual and Desktop Support units have been busy upgrading classrooms and equipping instructors with new technologies to support hybrid and in-person instruction. 

For example, the University Center (UC) Ballroom has now been turned into a hub for 25 large-enrollment lecture courses that can meet in person, as well as in the adjacent Ballroom Lounge (302) and nearby 310 and 312 rooms. In addition to cameras, mics and monitors peppered throughout these spaces to provide a synchronous, socially-distanced learning environment for students and faculty, DoIT and Commons staff will be available on-site to provide support. DoIT is also reaching out this week to faculty teaching in these spaces to provide on-site training next week.

UMBC synchronous lecture capture (SLC) cart options

In addition, AV has added a variety of mobile carts specifically design to support synchronous lecture capture (SLC). The intent of these carts is to provide a higher level of video and audio quality to an instructor's streaming application (Webex, Bb Collaborate, Zoom, etc.) than is possible with a laptop alone. A secondary purpose is to provide a backup for any built-in system that is experiencing technical difficulties. DoIT AV Student Specialists designed and assembled these carts, which include the following:

Monitor SLC Cart(4 units available)

  • 55” monitor with HDMI cable for user’s laptop
  • Logitech Meetup with remote
    • Single USB connection to user laptop
    • Camera with pan/tilt/zoom control
    • Array microphone
    • Sound bar
    • Built in echo cancellation
    • No software download required

Projection SLC Cart(5 units available)

  • Epson projector
  • Dell PC built in
  • User may opt to use own laptop with HDMI cable
  • Huddlecam ePTZ camera with remote
    • Use for marker board capture
    • Reposition for instructor or classroom view
    • Built in microphone array
    • Yamaha speakers

BYOD - SLC Cart(1 unit available)

  • Epson projector
  • Attach user’s device with supplied HDMI cable
  • Huddlecam ePTZ camera with remote
    • Use for marker board capture
    • Reposition for instructor or classroom view
    • Built in microphone array
    • Attach to user’s laptop with supplied USB cable
  • Epson Document Camera
    • Dry erase surface attached to cart surface
    • Attach to user’s laptop with supplied USB cable

AV Services is also equipped with approximately 200 bluetooth headsets faculty can use in class -- even when masked -- to support lecture capture with Blackboard Collaborate or Webex. 

Finally, as announced late last fall, a handful of classrooms were converted to be HyFlex capable rooms in which students can choose (during course registration) to meet in person or remotely. These include ADMIN 101, SOND 105, ITE 227 and ITE 233.

For more information about classroom upgrades or additions, please visit DoIT’s Desktop Support and AV Services site. To request help, please submit a myUMBC request via my.umbc.edu/help. 

By Steve Anderson & John Fritz


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Prepare your Blackboard course shell for the new semester with our updated baker’s dozen checklist.

1. Review new tools & features in Blackboard.

Our Blackboard site receives updates and enhancements every month -- check out the latest news to learn what’s new for Ultra courses.

2. Copy your course content from a previous semester.

Bypass the long wait and digital file transfers required for export and import. Use course copy -- it’s faster and more convenient. TIP: Prep your courses ahead of the new semester for a stress-free start. Request a development course shell for ongoing content development and maintenance. 

3. Create a central Start Here area for your students so they know how to get started.

Include a welcome video. Use Panopto to invite students to explore the course with a course tour and orientation. Let students know what to do first before classes start and where to find important content. Be sure to caption your videos for accessibility.

4. Check course links for broken or missing content.

If you use a lot of external links and third-party tools, check the validity of those resources. You’ll want to verify permissions for Google, Box, and Panopto to make sure your students can view these essential media and files.

5. Update library reserves.

Digital reserves are available through the AOK Library, making it easy for you to request from your desktop and for students to access, read, view, or listen from the convenience of their own devices. Course reserves are synchronized through your Blackboard courses. 

6. Upload multimedia to Panopto and large files to UMBC Box or Google Drive.

Please remember that Blackboard is not a streaming service. When you update your course content with new resources, be sure to place multimedia (video, audio) in Panopto and other large files to cloud storage. Your students and Blackboard course will thank you for a streamlined delivery. View our 30-minute webinar for additional tips to optimize your course quota.

7. Check your course content for accessibility.

Use your course’s Ally accessibility report to gauge the accessibility of course content and prioritize improvements. Ally automatically creates alternative versions of your files for students including Electronic Braille and mobile-friendly HTML.

8. Update due dates, adaptive release dates, availability, etc.

Use the Date Management tool in Original or Batch Edit in Ultra to modify nearly everything with a date in your course whether availability or conditional release.

9. Set up your virtual gradebook.

Students benefit from knowing how they’re doing in your course throughout the semester. If your course uses a weighted grading system to calculate the final grade, set up your Ultra gradebook or Original grade center as soon as possible.

10. Prepare virtual meeting places.

Create spaces to meet with students virtually. Use Collaborate or Webex for lectures, office hours, drop-in support, student study groups, and more.

11. Welcome students to your course.

No matter what format you teach, create an online introduction to create a sense of connection and build community in your course. Send an opening email or post an announcement to your course to greet your students.

12. Configure your personal notifications.

Choose which notifications you receive about activity in your courses. Notifications can appear in the Activity Stream or via email digest for new messages, gradable items, discussion posts, or student performance alerts.

13. Set your course availability.

Students cannot access your course until you make it available. Use one of three methods to turn your course on for students. TIP: If you use Ultra and you'd like to open your course earlier than 2 weeks before the semester starts, you might need to request support to make sure students see your course when you want them to have early access.

Do you have a tip to share with other faculty? Please comment in this post and let us know!

As always, if you have any questions about teaching, learning, and technology at UMBC, please consider the following options:

~ by Mariann Hawken
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Do you use VoiceThread assignments or links in Blackboard? At the end of July, VoiceThread went through an LTI upgrade to improve functionality between VoiceThread and Blackboard. The new integration supports automatic copying of VoiceThread assignments and content from a template course, improved roster synchronization, and greater security. As a result of the upgrade, the steps to add VoiceThread to Blackboard courses have changed slightly.

Visit this updated VoiceThread FAQ for details on the new process or attend VoiceThread Essentials on August 24th.

As always, if you have any questions about teaching, learning, and technology at UMBC, please consider the following options:



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A whiteboard is an important pedagogical tool to support handwritten expression and annotation, especially in a virtual classroom. Over the last year, Blackboard has been redesigning the whiteboard tool for Collaborate to provide more comprehensive tools and functionality. These new whiteboard tools are expected in time for FA2021 courses.

New Collab whiteboard tools

When files or a blank whiteboard are shared in Collaborate, instructors can use annotation tools to edit and mark up the document during the live session. The enhanced functionality includes:
  • Draw freehand on the page with various colors, thickness, and opacity. Select the eraser to remove annotations. You can erase parts of a freehand drawing with the eraser or select the Delete icon to delete the whole drawing.
  • Add text directly on the page. You can move, edit, and change the text and select the font, size, alignment, and color of the text.
  • Draw shapes including Line, Arrow, Rectangle, Ellipse, Polygon, and Polyline. Each shape has its own settings to change the color, width, opacity, and more.
  • Highlight text on a shared file. You can also strikethrough, underline, squiggle, or comment on the highlighted section. Note: The highlighter is not available on the whiteboard.
In addition to annotation persistence, which allows you to retain markups on a whiteboard even after closing the whiteboard, the new tool will support moving the whiteboard or shared file on the page as well as zooming and adjusting the view to automatically fit the width. Group annotations on a whiteboard will also be saved. Even a multi-page whiteboard is possible!

Please review the updated FAQ for more information about the new whiteboard tools or RSVP for the What's New in Collab for Teaching & Learning webinar on August 16.

View this 6:42 minute overview of the new whiteboard tools.

As always, if you have any questions about teaching, learning, and technology at UMBC, please consider the following options:
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Blackboard course shells for FA2021 were created on July 26, 2021.

The Ultra Course Preview setting is again enabled in FA2021 courses, which allows faculty to convert a new Original course to see what it looks like in Ultra. Please review the release notes for the latest updates as well as feature parity charts to compare Original and Ultra tools and check third-party tools are available. Have a question about Ultra? Ask an Ultra Ambassador!

Ally, an accessibility tool, is also enabled in all course shells. Ally automatically scans uploaded and created course content, then performs a series of steps to make that content more accessible. Please review the Ally FAQs for more information about the accessibility indicators on course content and alternative formats.

For faculty who will be teaching hybrid or online, the instructional technology team would like to share several resources to support online course development and instruction.

  1. Choose from our PIVOT Solo lessons to refresh or enhance your online teaching preparation. Five key topics cover course organization, active learning, community building, assessment, and supporting students. 
  2. Explore our Panopto folder for a wide variety of recorded webinars on various instructional technologies available at UMBC.
About Course Creation

Bb shells for FA2021 are available for all courses (designated as lecture, lab, field or discussion) listed in the UMBC Schedule of Classes (SOC), provided that there is an instructor of record listed. As new course sections and/or instructors are added to the SOC by Department Scheduling Coordinators, corresponding Bb shells are automatically generated overnight. 

Instructors who teach multiple sections of the same course will find those enrollments merged into one Bb course shell. These sections may be split upon request by an RT ticket, which we recommend submitting at least one week before the semester starts, if not as soon as courses are created in Blackboard.

Student enrollment in Bb mirrors the official registration in SA and updates hourly. However, courses are not accessible to students by default until the instructor of record makes them available.

As always, if you have any questions, please consider the following options:

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New Ultra gradebook filters

Progress tracking is a brand new enhancement to Ultra courses, allowing students to manually mark and track their progress. This feature is especially helpful when learning modules are used in Ultra courses, providing students with both visual cues to identify where they are in their consumption and manual task to mark complete for course activities. As this is the first phase of progress tracking, this feature can only be enabled if the course has no activity. Please review the FAQ to enable this setting.

The achievements tool in Original courses allows instructors to designate criteria for issuing rewards to students in the form of both badges. The new Badgr integration for Ultra and Original courses replaces the achievements tool and provides a platform for faculty to reward and motivate students for project completion, skill proficiency, experience levels, and more. Watch for updates about an upcoming webinar later in August to learn more about this exiting new tool.

Other new features coming to Ultra include a redesigned navigation menu. The top menu has featured icons since Ultra launched several years ago, and lacked any contextual information. The new menu will be completely text based and relocated to the left side of the page, where it is more responsive for mobile access. Moreover, this location is sticky -- that is, the menu remains at the top even if you scroll down the page, allowing you to easily change your tool and page view. The Student Preview tool will also change its location to the top right corner, which is more consistent with Original courses.

Example of new Ultra navigation bar

The next update to our test environment will take place on August 10, 2021. Faculty who are interested in test driving new features before they are released to production should open an RT ticket to request early access. Please watch the FAQs and myUMBC for additional information about Ultra or join our What's New in Ultra Courses for Teaching & Learning webinar on August 18.

As always, if you have any questions about teaching, learning, and technology at UMBC, please consider the following options:

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To encourage, identify, and exchange effective practice in the use of data to inform teaching and learning, the Provost’s Office has awarded UMBC’s first learning analytics mini grants to five faculty (their proposed topics are included below):

Raji Baradwaj and Brian Dean (MATH): “Analysis of Student Homework Performance and Final Exam Performance – What is the nature of any correlation?”

Tara Carpenter (CHEM): “Modeling Effective Learning Strategies in Introductory Chemistry”

Karen Chen (IS): “Bumpy Journey: Exploring Gateway Courses Failures and Major Switch - a Case Study with Information Systems Majors.”

Nandita Dasgupta (ECON/MATH): “Statistics as a Prerequisite for Introductory Econometrics: Options and Outcomes”

The one-year professional development awards are renewable annually, pending receipt of a final report, paper submitted for publication or conference presentation. In addition to use of UMBC’s Report Exchange (REX) data warehouse, and a Tableau “viewer” license, the faculty will be able to consult with staff from Analytics and Business Intelligence, Instructional Technology and Institutional Research and Decision support (IRADS). 

Note: After Covid interrupted plans for 2019-20 academic year, the Learning Analytics Community of Practice was re-launched this past spring, including a talk about student grade surprise by Indiana University’s Jennifer Meta Robinson and the inaugural LA mini grants call for proposals. More information about this year’s workshops, speakers and another learning analytics mini-grant call for proposals will be announced shortly.
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Update @ 10/1: The pilot has concluded.

In partnership with Blackboard, UMBC will pilot a recording transcription feature in the Collaborate web conferencing platform this summer. This feature will be available from July 15 - September 15, 2021. 

Captions improve the accessibility of content for individuals who are deaf or hearing impaired. However, captions with videos offer opportunities for students to access the information in ways they need or want it. 
  • Anyone working in a noisy environment can read captions.
  • Non-native speakers can read captions to reinforce their understanding.
  • Students learning to read can follow along with the speaker.
  • Students can see the spelling of terms that will be on a test.
In Collaborate, the recording transcription feature is triggered by the instructor through the recording settings page for the session. Please review this FAQ for step by step instructions.

Collaborate leverages AI powered speech to text recognition to generate a transcription of what is said during the session. After the captions are created, captions are available from the recording list. The captions also immediately appear in the recording player for anybody having access to the recording. As with Panopto, if you want to improve or correct anything in the captions, you can download the caption file to edit and replace it.

During the pilot, Blackboard would like to gather feedback from faculty who use the feature. Surveys will be distributed to faculty who use Collaborate recordings during the pilot. Please share your thoughts as this feedback is important to improving the feature for all future users. 

As always, if you have any questions about teaching, learning, and technology at UMBC, please consider the following options:
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Are you ready for the move? At the end of the Spring 2021 semester, DoIT announced that test scoring services were moving to Akindi, a Scantron alternative. During this transition, we will be offering faculty many opportunities to learn more about implementing Akindi bubble sheets when delivering face-to-face, multiple choice assessments. 

This training is recommended for all faculty that plan on deploying paper-based assessments in their courses. 

Training will be offered on:
Note: Faculty only need to attend one of the above sessions; the sessions are repetitive. 

Agenda:

By the end of this session, faculty should be able to:
  • Create an Akindi assessment in their Blackboard course shell
  • Add an answer key to an assessment
  • Generate, download, and print PDF Akindi bubble sheets for distribution. 
  • Upload completed bubble sheets into an Akindi assessment 
  • Mitigate errors and flags from assessments that may need manual review (e.g., bubbling two responses, missing ID).
  • Locate the scores of Akindi assessments in Blackboard
  • Review bubble sheet analytics 
  • Return the scanned, electronic bubble sheet to students
Attending

To RSVP for the event, please click “Going” on the corresponding myUMBC event (linked above) and be sure to add the event to your calendar!

Next Steps

Instructors that wish to continue using Scantrons for their bubble sheet assessments will still be able to do so during this transition throughout Fall 2021. 

Follow our Instructional Technology myUMBC group to stay up-to-date when training dates will be announced. Until then, instructors can:


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