Scholar - Instructor Documentation
Scholar (Ultra) how-tos for CNU instructors — building courses, distributing materials, running assessments, and calculating grades. See the guides below. Services in this area: Scholar (Blackboard). See the pages below for step-by-step guides.
- Accommodations and Exceptions on Graded Items in Ultra Courses
- Add a YouTube video in Scholar Ultra Courses
- Add SAGE Materials to your Ultra Course
- Add Web Links to Ultra Courses
- Adding a Course Banner Image to an Ultra Course
- Adding Calculations to the Gradebook
- Assign AI Conversations
- Backup the Gradebook in Ultra Courses
- Clear assignment/test attempts in Ultra Courses
- Copying Content Into Ultra Courses
- Create a Discussion in Scholar Ultra Courses
- Create Groups in Ultra Courses
- Creating and Attaching Rubrics
- Creating Assignments
- Creating Journals in Scholar Ultra Courses
- Creating Tests
- Creating/Uploading Content in Scholar
- Document/Assignment/Test Visibility in Ultra Courses
- Editing Ultra Course Gradebook grades with Excel
- Export/Import Ultra Courses
- Generate Content with the AI Design Assistant
- Grading Assignments
- Grading Ultra Tests
- Importing and Using Publisher Test Banks in Ultra Courses
- Inserting Images in Ultra Test Questions/Answers
- Manage Users in Scholar Ultra Organizations/Non-Academic Course Shells
- Manually Submit Students' Papers to SafeAssign
- Organizing Content in Scholar
- Regrading Test questions in Ultra
- Removing Course Messages in Ultra Courses
- Respondus for Ultra Courses
- Scholar Question Analysis
- Set Up Qwickly Attendance in Scholar Ultra Courses
- Single-Item Columns in the Gradebook in Ultra Courses
- Student View in Ultra Courses
- Take attendance with Qwickly Attendance
- Ultra Course Availability
- Ultra Gradebook
- Ultra Gradebook Item Visibility
- Use Qwickly Course Tools
- Use SafeAssign
- Use the Scholar Course Merge Tool
- Using Amazon AppStream -- Faculty (Ultra)
- View student journal submissions in Ultra Courses
- View Students' Scholar Activity
- Technical Guidance for Alternative Instruction
- Scholar Updates Winter 2025/2026
- Google Assignments