This article covers how instructors can preview their HuskyCT Original course in the new Ultra Course View.

Previewing Your Course in Ultra Course View

The HuskyCT Staging Server (LMSDEV) has been updated as of March 2023 to reflect the production version of HuskyCT (the version you teach in), and faculty can now use LMSDEV to preview courses in the Ultra Course View (UCV) version of Blackboard. This allows instructors to preview UCV and make plans for transitioning to it without affecting their active courses. HuskyCT administrators need to set courses in LMSDEV to “Instructor Choice” to allow instructors to convert their courses from Original Course View (OCV) to Ultra. The ITS HuskyCT Admin team will set courses to instructor choice by request.

To preview the layout and functionality of a course in Ultra Course View, instructors must complete the steps outlined below.

Step 1: Retrieve Course Information

1. Navigate to LMSDEV and log in with your NetID and password.

2. From the Courses tab, click on the course you would like to convert.

3. While in the course, copy the URL which contains the course information.

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Step 2: Request the “Instructor Choice” Option

1. Email the ITS HuskyCT Admin team (huskyct@uconn.edu) and include the following information:

   1. Your Last name, First name

   2. NetID (e.g., zlj10293)

   3. The URL copied in Step 1

   4. Any other information, comments, etc.

2. This will create a request ticket with UConn’s ITS HuskyCT team, who will turn on “Instructor Choice” for your LMSDEV course.

3. Once you have been notified by the HuskyCT team (via ticket) that “Instructor Choice” has been turned on, you are ready to convert your course.

Step 3: Convert your Course to Ultra

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manually convert a blank or upcoming HuskyCT “Original” course to “Ultra” Course View.

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Step 1: Convert to Ultra

Instructors should follow this conversion process from an upcoming term course or a non-course site (not from a previous term’s course).

1. Log in to HuskyCT

2. From the Courses tab, click into the course.

3. Before starting the conversion process, the course must be set to private. To make the course private, click the lock icon in the upper-righthand corner. A private course will display a red, locked icon will indicate the private status.

   

4. Once the course is private, click the orange pencil icon.

   

5. Then click Try the Ultra Course View.
   

   

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6. will convert While your LMSDEV course to Ultra. This is an automated process,

   1. how will they know when it’s done?

   2. are they removed from the course, while waiting,

   3. how long will it take?

   4. what exactly happens

   5. can they go back and revert ?- (no)

Step 4: Reviewing your Ultra Course (needs improvement)

1. Depending on how your course is designed in Original Course View, some content may need to be rearranged or rebuilt. Reviewing your course and determining how much rearrangement or rebuilding will be necessary is a key part of your decision to transition to the Ultra Course Viewis converted, you will be returned to the Courses tab.

2. You will receive a notification email when the course has been converted.

3. Refresh your browser and from the Courses tab, your Ultra course will now have a colored strip next to it.

Step 2: Ultra Conversion Preview

1. Enter your course. You will receive a report of all the things that were not able to be perfectly converted. (is this accurate?)

2. You will be looking at the course in Ultra Course View preview mode. At this point, it is still possible to return to the original. To return to the original Original course view, click Back to Original Course button on the page footer.

   Take a look around the course and see if you like it.

3. If you do like it, click Use the Ultra Course and follow the prompts to finish the conversion and make it permanent.

If you do NOT like it, click Back to Original course which

This will roll back any changes made to the course. This step can only be performed in the preview mode.

Step 5: Converting your REAL (production) course to Ultra (optional)

1. If they do the conversion in their production course, will they get the preview, and chance to review - “Preview”?

2. Do they need to click to keep it?

3. After converting

4. If Course availability: If you choose to return to Original Course View, you will need to make the course Available again . To make the course Available, click the Red Padlock by clicking the red lock icon in the upper Right right hand corner. Alternatively, navigate to Course Management >> Customization >> Properties and under Set Availability, select Yes. Once the course is available the visibility is controlled by the Course Duration dates found under,

   1. Please note that course Availability is also determined by Course Duration dates.

   2. Navigate to Course Management >> Customization >> Properties

   and

   1. under Set Course Duration. If you want to change this date, refer toChanging Course AvailabilityChanging Course Availability.

5. When you are ready to finalize the conversion, click Use the Ultra Course.

6. To access the conversion report after the course is converted to Ultra, click the Conversion Exceptions link under the left side Details and Action menu.

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