Introduction

Look at you! You’ve come so far! After weeks of careful thought and little creativity, you’re almost done preparing your course to be delivered in Blackboard Ultra.  

As you draw closer to completion, we want to provide you with this handy little checklist and hope it helps you check over what you’ve accomplished and identify anything else you have yet to wrap up.

This is a guide only. It is designed around the Base Template that all courses were initially set equipped with. If you’ve chosen to adjust your course design to suit your course delivery, please adapt as necessary for your own review.  

Whether you use the list below or not, a good self-check question to begin with is the following: “Is this course ready to teach from in its current form?” The list that follows can help you answer that question if you are not sure.

📄 Self-Review Checklist

🔑 Course Essentials (Session 1)

• Updated your Welcome! message to students
• Reviewed and edited Navigating our Blackboard Course for any changes in how students should work through the course material

🎒 Course and Faculty Information (Session 1)

• Populated About Your Instructor section
• Listed and/or linked all Important Course Documents, including Syllabus, Course Outline, etc
• Listed and/or linked Course Material List, including textbooks, tools, programs, equipment, etc

📝 Assignments and Tests (Session 3 and 4)

• Assignments are created and reviewed
• Tests are created and reviewed
• Learning Modules (Session 2)
• Learning module is edited and reviewed
• Content items are populated and reviewed

Discussion Boards (Session 4)

• Discussion Boards are populated and reviewed, if used

Gradebook (Session 5)

• Overall Grade (Weighted Total) is configured
• Overall Grade is set to Percentage and Visible to Students

General (Session 2, 3, and 4)

• Reviewed visibility settings for each item

Additional Considerations

• Combined content items to simplify student navigation
• Linked files from OneDrive instead of uploading files directly
• Added a course banner image
• Included images to support student learning and navigation
• Due dates are set for first delivery (optional but helpful)
• Added a welcome video for students
• Enabled Progress Tracking and/or Force Sequencing  

Is your migration complete?

Faculty are not required to notify CTL or complete any additional documentation to indicate completion of this migration. If you feel that you have satisfied each of the required items above, you can consider your PREP course migrated and ready for the upcoming term.  

Please speak with your academic area to determine if they require confirmation or completion.