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Managing a Team for collaboration activities

This article is written for staff managing a team space, it advises using Channels to provide dedicated spaces within a Team for collaboration and meetings between students. See the Microsoft video Introduction to Channels for a quick overview of channels functionality. Setting up Channels: Please note, all Team spaces have a ‘general’ channel: cannot be renamed, reordered or deleted. can be open for all to post, or restricted […]

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Recording live online sessions: What do I need to know?

Important: Teams recordings are no longer saved in Stream Classic. Instead they are saved in Stream (on SharePoint). Recordings can be accessed via the “Recordings” folder (automatically created after first recording) in OneDrive or within a Teams Channel depending on how the meeting was created. By default, recordings are set to expire after 90 days. Please

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MS Stream: Edit Your Video Transcript for Captioning

Microsoft 365 Archived, Microsoft Teams

Important: Stream (Classic) has been replaced with Stream (on SharePoint). To find out more about migration from Stream Classic to Stream on SharePoint please visit DTS’ page Stream on SharePoint. Stream is no longer used for storing Teaching and Learning video content. T&L video content for 2022/23 onwards should be stored in Yuja. Stream Groups will not

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Blackboard Collaborate: monitoring attendance

Class Collaborate, Reports and Statistics Archived

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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Blackboard Ultra Practice Courses

Blackboard Learn Archived

Any staff member is entitled to a Blackboard Practice Course. You can use your Practice Course to test out any of the features of Blackboard. You can also use it to set up a Blackboard Collaborate room which can be used for academic meetings not directly related to a specific course e.g. tutorial sessions. Step 1:

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Blackboard Collaborate: Large class sizes

Blackboard Collaborate Archived

The maximum size of a regular Collaborate Ultra session is 250 users. If you need to run a Collaborate session with more than 250 users (up to a maximum of 500 users), you will need to create the session as a Large Scale Session. Having created your Collaborate event, go to the Session Settings tab. Scroll down

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How to play videos through Class Collaborate

Blackboard Collaborate Archived

Using a Windows computer: *Only if you use the screen/application sharing method described below, it won’t work if you upload your PowerPoint into Collaborate and play it that way. Using a Mac: Please Note: You will not be able to share audio through the Safari browser or by sharing screen or applications on a Mac;

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Mode of Submission: Blackboard Assignment (rolling deadlines)

Blackboard Assignment Archived, RISIS and Blackboard Integration

RISIS Mode of Submission Use for What’s created in Blackboard Students submit to Channel for feedback WC08 Bb assignment (rolling deadlines) Blackboard Assignment (rolling deadlines) Weighted Total column Blackboard Assignment Blackboard Assignment For use where students will be submitting work via a Blackboard Assignment, but the deadline is not the same for all students on

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Blackboard Collaborate: Mobile app differences from desktop

Class Collaborate, Mobile Archived

When hosting and moderating a webinar session it is advised that you use a desktop computer with a stable browser such as Chrome. This way you will have the most stable connection and flexibility to manage your session and attendees. Until recently the only way to access Collaborate on mobile was through the app (IOS

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Blackboard guidance for External Examiners

Assessment & Feedback Archived

Your School will provide you with information about Blackboard, and how you can access the specific information you require. Practices vary between Schools, so may not exactly match what is shown below. Logging on You should log on to Blackboard at www.bb.reading.ac.uk – see Blackboard Learn: Logging in. Please note that logging into Blackboard and many other University

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