Blackboard now have some tools to help you gauge student participation in a Collaborate session. Insights Panel The Insights panel will appear at the bottom of the Collaborate screen during a session. Insight Statistics The Session Engagement Insights statistics include how many occasions where students have raised their hands and…
Collaborate annotation tools can be used with: Shared Files Shared Blank Whiteboard How do I share Files or Whiteboard From the Collaborate Menu, bottom right, select the Share Content Button. Select Share Files or Share Blank Whiteboard. For further details on sharing files see Share PowerPoint slides and other files. Annotation…
This guide will give you an overview of using Breakout Groups within Blackboard Collaborate Ultra. The following video is a comprehensive guide and looks in greater detail at activities within Breakout groups as well as some different scenarios to think through. It is time stamped for your ease of section…
Anyone accessing a Collaborate session can make use of the new Gallery view, which enables you to see up to 25 participant videos on screen. Click on the View icon (four squares) top right to switch between views. See more on Gallery view on the Blackboard help site. Gallery view…
You can use the whiteboard in Blackboard Collaborate to collaborate with your students and/or to allow students to collaborate with each other. The Collaborate whiteboard and annotation tools were updated in August 2021. You can find details on the Blackboard help site: Blackboard Collaborate Annotation tools Availability Free Online (via Blackboard…
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…
To make chat messages in a recording anonymous: Tick the ‘Anonymise chat messages‘ box under Session Settings, when creating a scheduled session. The participants’ names in chat are removed from the recording of the session and replaced with generic placeholder names.
For a good Collaborate Ultra experience, please ensure you have a good internet connection and your computer’s audio and video devices are working fine. Blackboard recommend using Chrome for the best experience.
Poor connectivity can affect the quality and speed of: a Teams or Collaborate call, a recording being made via MS Teams, uploading files to an online space, such as Blackboard or Yuja processing files in an online space, such as editing video The following steps can be taken to improve…
Having set up Collaborate on your course, you need to create a link for your students to access the sessions or room in the course. Add Collaborate to the course menu This is probably the simplest route. Click on the ‘Add Menu Item’ button ( plus sign) above the course…