Help & Resources: Blackboard

To maximize our resources during our  transition to Canvas , we want to ensure our focus is concentrated and effective. As such, we strongly advise those faculty who have not yet utilized Blackboard's Ultra Course View to refrain from transitioning at this time. 

As part of Ohio University's  Blackboard Retirement  initiative, academic courses taught between Summer 2019 and Summer 2025 in Blackboard will be retained in a secure third-party archiving platform, K16, until June 2028. Please review the purpose of the archive and the process of requesting access to archived course materials when submitting a ticket .

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Blackboard overview

Blackboard Original

Blackboard Original for Instructors

Getting started

Setting up your course 

Creating and viewing content 

Tests, assignments and grading 

Student Blackboard Original 

Getting started 

Common help topics

Blackboard Ultra 

Blackboard Ultra for Instructors

To maximize our resources during our  transition to Canvas , we want to ensure our focus is concentrated and effective. As such, we strongly advise those faculty who have not yet utilized Blackboard's Ultra Course View to refrain from transitioning at this time. 

Getting started 

Help topics for Blackboard Ultra

Student Blackboard Ultra 

Getting started 

Communicating in Blackboard Ultra

Tests, assignments, and grades in Blackboard Ultra

Blackboard Organizations 

Get help from OIT

Additional resources

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Blackboard Learning Management System (LMS)
Blackboard Learn is an online service for posting course-related materials and facilitating interactions between students, instructors, teaching assistants, and guests. Blackboard Learn integrates communication tools with a multitude of content delivery options.

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