Converting Discussions to Ultra

A Note About Discussions:

Discussion Forums in the original course view are an essential feature of online learning.  Instructors often create discussions in one of two ways:

• Create a forum and students respond to the forum prompt by creating a thread; or
• Create a forum with sub-threads and students reply to those threads.

To better support each of the two use cases above, Blackboard has updated the conversion process for Discussion Forums:

• When the "allow members to create new threads" is selected, the Discussion Forum from the original course view will convert directly to a Discussion Forum in Ultra Course View.
• When "allow members to create new threads" is deselected, the Discussion Forum from the original course view will be converted to a folder in the Discussions area in Ultra, and all threads within that Discussion Forum will be converted to Discussions within that folder.