Resources to support your path to Ultra Courses
Why there’s more to Ultra
Hear what institutions are saying about their Blackboard modernization experience—and how Ultra Courses has transformed their teaching and learning experiences.
What’s new in Blackboard
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What’s New in Blackboard – May 2025
We’ve got a slate of exciting features and enhancements coming to Blackboard® this upcoming month! The Blackboard 3900.116 release, arriving in May, is packed with features in the areas of Instructional Design, Test and Assignment, and Learn Core and Security.
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What’s New in Blackboard – April 2025
We’ve got robust new features and enhancements to Blackboard® coming this month!
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What’s New in Blackboard – March 2025
The Blackboard team at Anthology has a brand new collection of features and enhancements coming next month!
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“What I love about Blackboard [Ultra] is that it’s all laid out. As soon as you open up your course, you know where to start. It’s laid out really nice, so it’s no guessing game as to where learners have to go or where instructors have to go from week to week.”
Angela Bullock
Program Director for the Social
Work
Program and Associate Professor
University of the
District of Columbia
“We chose Blackboard [Ultra] for several core reasons. It's intuitive, mobile-friendly, device-agnostic, responsive, and accessible.”
Rob Farmer
Learning Technology Manager
University
of Northampton
“Faculty thought it was user-friendly, that it was more modern, that it was clean, that it was easy to navigate, easy to move folders around. Blackboard [Ultra], in essence, was the modern LMS built for the post-pandemic higher ed landscape.”
Nick Hryhorczuk
Academic Director of Online
Learning
Morton College
“Our online advisory committee has representatives from all of our schools across campus. There are faculty members that volunteer on this committee. They were able to test Blackboard [Ultra], look at it, and try it out, try some playground courses, and they fell in love with it.”
Lee McMinn
LMS Administrator and Instructional
Designer
Greenville Technical College
“Go for it! If there’s one message to anyone who’s doubting (moving to Ultra), then it is ‘Go for it!’”
Dr. Julie Clark
Lecturer in Surveying
Northumbria
University
“[Moving from Original to Ultra] We are excited about the opportunities it presents to our students, staff, and organization as a whole.”
Michelle Katavatis
Head of Innovation &
Design
The University of Notre Dame Australia
“Analytics in Blackboard help us ensure that our students are getting the best support and attention available—and when they aren’t, it helps us identify the gaps so we can close them.”
Sherry Olsen
Vice Chancellor, Online Division
Keiser
University