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Level Up Your Blackboard Ultra Courses: Strategies and Tools for Customization and Engagement
Thursday November 7, 2024 10:30am - 11:15am EST
Room 136B
The Blackboard Ultra interface provides a consistent and user-friendly experience across all courses, offering ample opportunities for customization to make each course unique and visually appealing. This session will equip faculty and instructional designers with practical strategies and tools to enhance their Blackboard Ultra courses by leveraging customized banner and learning module images, AI tools, and user-friendly design platforms.

Participants will learn how to create visually dynamic course environments that engage students. We will demonstrate how to create and integrate customized banners and icons using user-friendly platforms, including Canva, Adobe Express, and Visme, along with a menu of additional design tool options. Further, we will showcase use cases of AI tools, such as prompts in ChatGPT, to generate basic HTML code (no coding knowledge needed) that you can copy into your courses for additional customization.

Attendees will also be introduced to the internal icon library and HTML generator we have developed. Lastly, we will highlight Ultra course examples from various academic programs to empower educators to design compelling visual content that enhances course aesthetics and functionality.
Speakers
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Melissa Cline-Douthitt

University of Louisville
Melissa Cline-Douthitt is an Instructional Designer for the Delphi Center for Teaching and Learning at the University of Louisville and also teaches online and hybrid English Composition courses as an adjunct instructor at Jefferson Community and Technical College. She holds a Master... Read More →
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Aimee Greene

Assistant Director, University of Louisville
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Beth Case

Sr. Manager, Accessibility and Multimedia Design, University of Louisville
Dr. Beth Case is the Sr. Manager of Accessibility and Multimedia Design at the Delphi Center for Teaching and Learning at the University of Louisville. She loves exploring new technology and discovering ways to use it in education without ever losing site of the ultimate goal -- student... Read More →
Thursday November 7, 2024 10:30am - 11:15am EST
Room 136B
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