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Thank you for joining the “Exploring Base Navigation” Group. You will find this program's information, documents, and resources.

Program Description:

The Exploring Base Navigation program is a 60-minute webinar where we will explore the main features and functionalities of Base Navigation for Blackboard Learn. This new navigation interface offers instructors and learners a new way to access Blackboard Learn that saves them time and helps them stay on top of what is most important.

Webinar topics:

Overview and functionalities: Base Navigation: Institution Page, URL and role branding, Activity Stream, Calendar, Messages, Targeted Notifications.
3rd Party Tools and Partner Integration.
Product roadmap update.

Upcoming webinars:

June 6 | 10:00 - 11:00 a.m. EDT

IT Professionals, System Administrators, and Instructional/Academic Technologists planning to enable Base Navigation.

➔ Access webinar recordings
➔ View program resources
➔ Base Navigation Upgrade Toolkit
➔ Group discussions

Take part in the Discussion

Converting Community Tabs and Subtabs to the UBN ...

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We have made extensive use of the Community tabs and subtabs on our system and are now looking at enabling the UBN. Is there anyone who uses or used the “old” tabs and subtabs before enabling UBN who would be willing to share how their UBN ...

Annette Ingram Category Ultra Planning Workshop Sep '21

Sep '21

I am interested in this as well. We have an extensive Tabs and Modules implementation today.

Oct '21

We are just getting ready to start into this process and it would be great to see what others have done. We currently ...

can't get into the workshop collaborate session

5 24

There are numerous people in the webinar test room who can't login to the workshop collaborate session.

Huff Mann Category Ultra Planning Workshop Dec '20

Dec '20

It's actually not that we can't login, it's that the session won't load. It says, "

Unfortunately we are not able to ...

Dec '20

Hi Huff. Yes, unfortunately there is a problem with the link on the calendar invite and it's not working. To access ...

UBN Configuration Settings

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Hi, I've seen the UBN checklist but I think what I'm really looking for is a ‘config workbook’(xls). I'd like to create a central log of all the possible config changes and design decision we make for UBN. This would really help us plan and ...

Virginia Walker Category Ultra Planning Workshop Mar '23

Mar '23

@Virginia Walker I would like to see this too. I have spent all morning trying to figure out how to disable the ...

Mar '23

@Virginia Walker
I would also like to see this…I've been looking for where to edit what tools are shown from the ...

Institution Page modules

Does anyone know why the custom content module only allows image embedding only via a URL? Local and/or content collection image embedding would make it easier to customize the modules. Is it possible to give certain users module ...

Nate Lison Category Ultra Planning Workshop Mar '23

Hide all courses in a term

I had an instructor who was not seeing their courses. They were all hidden which they said they didn't do. Is there a keyboard command they could of done to hide them? Issue is resolved, but they are asking because they like to use ...

Becky Hannaman Category Ultra Planning Workshop Oct '22

New Ideas For Ultra

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Hello everyone! We are new to Ultra but we notice that it still needs a lot of updates and features that my faculty have brought to my attention so I was wondering if anyone wanted to help me spread the word to blackboard product ...

Payton Miller Category Ultra Planning Workshop Jun '22

Oct '22

@Payton Miller I see this topic has been duplicated in a few groups. There are l ots of great ideas listed here and ...

Upcoming Webinar Announcement!

In addition to the best practices and resources provided in our Ultra-based workshops, we encourage to check out our partner EesySoft . Their EdTech adoption platform provides tools to deliver custom and out-of-the-box messaging ...

Lisa Clark Category Ultra Planning Workshop Jun '21

Potential UBN "Gotcha"

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When we moved our Test environment from Original Base Nav over to UBN, we didn't consider the background image we had in place as part of our branding. We place tile images in the background of our Staging and Test environments to make it ...

Shawn Brewer Category Ultra Planning Workshop Jul '20

Jun '21

I started with my institution 3 days before they made the transition to Ultra, and currently have an open ticket ...

Jun '21

Linda,

They never did resolve this issue for us. Since it was our Test environment, we have them the OK to just ...

Experiences in your transition to Ultra

Hello BB Community! We recently transitioned to Ultra, and it has been a bumpy road thus far. We had a rare technical issue (reportedly only happened to 2 other schools), as well as are experiencing continued other issues. Some of these ...

Linda Mullally Category Ultra Planning Workshop Jun '21

Question Types (File Response) in Ultra

I teach CAD, so my students create CAD files for me to grade for their tests. I use the test environment to force a time limit. I use File Response which works great in Learn Original, so I'm wondering if it is in the plan for the future in ...

KATHLEEN LIEFER Category Ultra Planning Workshop May '21

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Events

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Exploring Base Navigation - June 2024

Date & Time

06/06/2024 10:00am EDT