Workshop: Ultra Essentials for teaching staff

Summary

An introduction to the key skills needed to build an Ultra site from a departmental template.

Note

This workshop will be updated for preparing 24/25 sites.

Overview

This workshop covers four key aspects of developing a module site in Learn Ultra:

New VLE site design principles: what makes a good VLE site?
Introduction to Ultra: key differences to Original
The new Ultra template: structure, placeholders
Preparing your module site: editing the template, building content, reusing content from Original sites

Work through the slides and/or view the videos below to complete tasks where you can explore an Ultra site both as a student and as an editor.

To complete tasks, you'll need access to an Ultra sandpit site. Contact us at vle-support@york.ac.uk if you don't have a sandpit site.

What does a good site look like?

The key features of Ultra and the differences to Original sites.

An introduction to the Ultra module site template, including features, structure and placeholder information.

Editing the template, building content and reusing content from Original sites.

This section particularly focuses on using content from Original sites (22/23 or before)

Watch a full workshop covering parts 1,2,3 and 4 via Panpoto (UoY only, you maybe required to sign in to view this).