Per the Faculty Appendix all faculty are required to use Blackboard (for all instructional methods), to ensure high quality instruction. See the resources provided on this page to support your use of Blackboard and other educational technologies. Additional resources, request forms, training schedules, and more are available on the Online Faculty Support Website.
Where to Find Assistance
The Center for Teaching Excellence provides one on one instructional support relating to 21st Century Classroom requirements. For assistance, contact your assigned faculty development coach or cte@matc.edu. For consultation regarding online instructional quality, Online Learning's Faculty Liaisons are available by appointment.
For high-level troubleshooting of errors or activity that requires investigation, Contact Online Learning. A Blackboard administrator will be in contact with you.
Review the minimum requirements for using Blackboard and training resources.
As of July 14, 2025, Blackboard logins now require DUO authentication.
Instructions for locating assigned semester course shells.
Review the requirements for teaching in Blackboard Ultra for all course types.
Use this checklist as you build courses to ensure you are meeting 21st Century Classroom requirements.
First time guide to uploading your syllabus
Short tutorials to learn how to move content from one course shell to another.
Configure each course's Gradebook to provide regular grades and feedback to students.
Make courses available by their start dates or earlier through these steps.
Online, virtual, hybrid, hyflex, and blended courses must demonstrate RSI. See this resource for details.
Short tutorials to learn about tools for content, assessment, and grading.
Recording Student Attendance
Per the Faculty Appendix, all faculty are required to log student attendance for all course types in Self-Service except for Second Chance Pell sections, Independent Study sections, and students auditing sections. For questions about the task, contact the Center for Teaching Excellence at cte@matc.edu. For errors related to dates in Self-Service, contact matc-class-scheduling@matc.edu. If you experience a technical problem with Self-Service screens, contact helpdesk@matc.edu.
Tutorials and rules for recording student attendance in Self-Service for all course types.
Watch this video of the process faculty use in Self-Service to assign Present/Absent attendance.
Class for Web Faculty Resources
Class Collaborate is now called Class for Web. Instructors use Class for Web to conduct live online meetings with chat, video streaming, and screen-sharing tools. Class for Web is accessed through a tool link within an Ultra Course. If you or students have trouble accessing a Class for Web session, see our Troubleshooting Tips.
See these resources to learn how to moderate and record a session.
See these resources to understand how participants attend a session.
YuJa Video Platform Resources for Faculty
MATC has a site license to YuJa to provide faculty and students a tool for recording and sharing videos. YuJa provides web-based tools for screen-recording, automated speech-to-text closed-captioning, quizzing, and more. For assistance with a technical problem, contact support@yuja.com or call 1-888-257-2278.
Review this guide to learn how to access YuJa, upload media, add closed captions, and share videos in Blackboard.
Browse YuJa's video tutorials to learn how to see demonstrations of common tasks and features.
Ally Resources for Faculty
As of June 2024, the United States Department of Justice’s Americans with Disabilities Act requires all digital course content to meet Web Content Accessibility standards. Faculty may use the Ally tool in Blackboard to identify, prioritize, and address accessibility challenges with its built-in feedback and support.
Checklists, tutorials, and videos demonstrating using Ally to ensure digital course content accessibility.
Ally can now generate alternative text descriptions for images with the click of a button.
Refer to these resources to edit content for accessibility or find alternative replacements.
SmarterProctoring Resources for Faculty & Students
SmarterProctoring is a tool integrated with Blackboard to protect online tests with automated proctoring and recording of the student. It is available only for Windows, Mac, and Chromebook laptops and requires the student to install the SmarterProctoring Chrome extension. First time users go through an onboarding process with built-in guidance and support.
Text and video-based instructions for protecting a test with SmarterProctoring.
Text and video-based instructions for taking a test in SmarterProctoring.
Student Ultra Course Training - Share with Your Students!
See our Staff Resources Guide to Blackboard Ultra to review the training and support options we provide to students. Share our self-paced Online Readiness module and live orientation webinar schedule with your students to help them learn about the tools, tasks, and strategies to start their studies strong.
If you share the Online Readiness module as a link in your course, use this specific URL: http://www.go2orientation.com/matc. This will take the student to an MATC login page where the student will log in with their MATC network account!
Students log in with their MATC network account.
Students join their choice of virtual session in Google Meet
