Communication

Announcements help you share important information with others in your course. Unlike messages, announcements appear immediately when a student opens a course. Students are less likely to ignore the information you share in a course announcement because it demands attention before viewing course content.

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Your messages all have one home—just like a normal inbox, but better. You can access all your messages right from the base navigation, or from your course. This video will take you on a functionality tour of the Messages feature.

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This global calendar provides events from across the system, showing dates from multiple courses in one convenient location. If you access the calendar with a course, it displays due dates, the course schedule, office hours, and events for that course only. Any events you add within a course are specific to that course.

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Calendar export is available now in Learn Ultra and will sync 8 times a day. See link below for more details.

Calendar – Export

Calendar Import is available now in Learn Ultra as a snapshot only, meaning you can only upload a file that gives you the current calendar, it does not sync with updates. Additional calendar options are planned. See link below for more details.

Calendar – Import

Discussions encourage students to think critically about their coursework and interact with each other’s' ideas. This tutorial will show you how to create a discussion.

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Discussion analysis provides an in-depth look at each student’s discussion participation, critical thinking level, and sentence complexity. These performance-based insights show you which students who may need help or are out of the normal range of participation.

Journals are ideal for individual projects - creating personal spaces for students to communicate privately with you.

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