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Paths to Create your Course in Ultra

Paths to Create your Course in Ultra

Ultra is very easy to learn and to use. However, your course adoption strategy may depend on how much time you have to accomplish your goals. All live courses begin as blank shells. With that in mind, you have a few paths to consider to add content to your Ultra course:

General Tips for the move to Ultra

  1. Do not prepare your content in previous live course or current live course. (see number 2)

  2. Request a practice course or preview course with a copy of specific course/term to give yourself room to develop your content for Ultra.

  3. Consolidate content & remove unnecessary content areas to reduce layers
    Access the Content Collection and delete duplicate files

  4. Remove duplicate tests, rubrics, grade columns
    Export tests as question banks

  5. Verify links to websites and remove anything that’s broken
    Remove publisher integrations and relink after moving to Ultra

Paths to Ultra

Copy

Pull content into your new Ultra course with the Copy Items process.

Tips to Remember

  1. Use your practice course or the Ultra Preview Course to explore: Discover what you can do in Ultra!

  2. Copy content entirely from a course or at a granular level. A granular copy means you will select particular items to copy from another course.

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Create & Construct

Create your course content from scratch and construct your course using your syllabus.

Tips to Remember

Be deliberate in Ultra tool choices to benefit your course and teaching style. Ask: What would you do differently with your course from what you do now?

  1. Start with your syllabus as a course blueprint to plan your course roadmap
    Align your materials, active learning & assessments to your course/unit objectives

  2. Use the Try It Out! Ultra Checklist to familiarize yourself with content options in Ultra.

  3. Leverage Ultra Documents to present content
    In Original, an Item shows informational text on the screen in a content area. An Ultra document can:

    • Combine smaller chunks (Original Items)

    • Distribute nested content (Original Folders & Items)

    • Embed and display attached files or YouTube videos

    • Add links to websites or third-party tools

    • Use descriptions to provide context to folders, learning modules, links, etc.

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Which approach is best?

Ultimately, the choice is up to you -- however, if allow yourself as much time as possible to prepare your course for Ultra, no matter which path you choose, you will be ready.

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