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Senior TEL Applications Manager, University of Reading

Blackboard Collaborate: monitoring attendance

The Session Attendance Report provides an overview of when attendees joined and left Collaborate sessions. It also gives you an idea of how long attendees were present in the session on average. Go to Control Panel > Course Tools > Blackboard Collaborate Ultra and select ‘All Previous Sessions’ or ‘Sessions in Range’. For the session

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EMA Integration: Exams

It is possible to send exam marks direct from Blackboard to RISIS for Online Exams. To trigger the Integration To integrate Exam records (sequence numbers starting with 800) which already exist in RISIS, you need to go into RISIS and toggle the Ready flag: Once the module has been flagged if you add new Exam records, these will be integrated into Blackboard

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MS Teams: Making a recording

Important: Please refer to the Policy for the Recording of Teaching and Learning Activities (Learning Capture) This policy provides information on the overarching expectations for the use of Learning Capture and how recordings can be used and shared with students, plus the key legal and data protection considerations. Transition from Stream (Classic) to YuJa: All video

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Blackboard Collaborate: Using Collaborate Ultra in China

If you use Collaborate with students based in China this article provides advice for common access issues, particularly around the Chinese government firewall and connectivity from within China. Please also see DTS advice for students studying in China and staff based in China. Collaborate Ultra is not currently blocked by the firewall. However, using Collaborate

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