Blackboard Ultra Status Dashboard
The Ultra Status Dashboard is a Power BI dashboard showing information and statistics for the move to Blackboard Ultra for Spring 2026. This guide gives an overview of the dashboard and shows users how to navigate to their desired content.
Page Navigation
Key Details
The instructors and course sections that are listed as using Blackboard Original need to be reviewed to prepare content for Ultra in Spring 2026.
This dashboard shows the total number of sections in Blackboard. The total number of sections in Blackboard may differ from the number in Banner because of supersections - where multiple Banner sections are combined into a single Blackboard course.
Fully online academic sections (UA Online/OTIDE) are omitted since their move to Ultra is complete.
The Ultra Status Dashboard is available to members of the University of Alabama.
Data provided on the dashboard, such as instructor names, is intended for internal-to-UA use only.
If you do not have the link to access this PowerBI dashboard, please email cit@ua.edu to request access.
Instructions
Dashboard Navigation
Navigate to the Ultra Status Dashboard in PowerBI.
The dashboard defaults to viewing “By Course”. To view By Instructor, choose the page “By Instructor”.
Use the dropdown menu to select one or more 2025 academic terms.
Use the “plus” icon to expand the College/Department listing to view departments.
Under each department are “Standalone” sections and “Supersection Child Sections”, if used. Blackboard Supersections contain enrollment from two or more Banner “child” sections; the dashboard lists the child sections.
Expand the Standalone or Supersection Child Section subdivisions to view a list of sections and their instructors.
Selecting a pie piece filters the dashboard by College.
Copy/Export Data
To gather data for your departments records or for communications purposes, you can copy a set of data from the Instructor page and paste it to an Excel spreadsheet.
In the PowerBI dashboard Pages pane, select By Instructor.
Select a plus sign to expand the College/Department levels you would like to view.
Then select the plus sign next to Original to expand the section and view the list of Instructors that are teaching at least one course in Original.
Right click on the selected data (or a similar action for your device).
Choose Copy.
Then choose Copy selection.
Paste the data into Excel and either save for your records or create an Outlook contact list to communicate with faculty and instructors about the move to Ultra.
