{"id":7689,"date":"2020-10-20T08:24:43","date_gmt":"2020-10-20T08:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northampton.ac.uk\/learntech\/?p=7689"},"modified":"2021-10-28T12:05:19","modified_gmt":"2021-10-28T12:05:19","slug":"nile-is-changing-blackboard-ultra-is-coming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northampton.ac.uk\/learntech\/2020\/10\/20\/nile-is-changing-blackboard-ultra-is-coming\/","title":{"rendered":"NILE is Changing! Blackboard Learn Ultra is Coming!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The core technology underpinning NILE, known as Blackboard Learn, is changing. This will have a major impact across the University as NILE courses are updated to Blackboard Learn Ultra over the next three academic years, starting with Level 4 and Foundation courses for teaching beginning in the 2021\/22 academic year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-medium is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.northampton.ac.uk\/learntech\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/10\/Efficiency_2-300x160.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7691\" width=\"300\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.northampton.ac.uk\/learntech\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/10\/Efficiency_2-300x160.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.northampton.ac.uk\/learntech\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/10\/Efficiency_2-768x410.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.northampton.ac.uk\/learntech\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2020\/10\/Efficiency_2.png 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Blackboard Learn Ultra is a modern, responsive VLE, that has been designed to work across the widest range of devices. 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