Faculty
To access Blackboard Collaborate, look in the "Details and Actions" section of your course over to the left to find the "Join...
Creating a shortcut to your Blackboard Collaborate room in the course menu is pretty easy. Just click the little + icon in the upper left of...
Just like in a face-to-face classroom, Collaborate's breakout groups are a good way to get students interacting. Breakout Activity...
Faculty who need like to provide access to Collaborate someone who is not enrolled in their Bb course site -- guest lecturers or students from...
The Collaborate participants list lets you manage and communicate with individuals in your session. To access the participants list, click the purple...
By default, each course has a Collaborate room accessable by clicking the GET LAUNCH LINK in the upper right side of the Blackboard Collaborate Ultra...
You can use Collaborate sessions to create separate spaces inside Collaborate for different uses. For example, you might create a Virtual Office...
Recording links are an excellent way to share a recording ... Rather than directing students to a particular part of the site, you can post an...
If you're looking to replace student presentations, whether individual or group work, you can prepare a Collaborate recording assignment which...
By default, downloading of Collaborate recordings is disabled. To enable downloading, you'll need to edit the session's settings. Navigate to...
To start recording a Collaborate session, click the hamburger button in the upper left corner of the screen, then click START RECORDING....
Faculty teaching a blended class -- a class with both online and face-to-face students participating in the same synchronous session -- will likely...
If you are on a Mac OS and are having difficulty getting your camera or microphone to work in your web browser (a particular issue for Blackboard...
Blackboard Collaborate includes a polling tool that makes it easy to ask your students questions and get responses on the fly. Unlike more...
Whether you're planning on giving an interactive lecture or just providing virtual office hour, at some point you will probably want to push an...
To start using the Collaborate's whiteboard, open the Collaborate panel by clicking the purple button in the lower right corner of your session...
While the SHARE FILES option is an excellent way to share images, PDFs, or static PowerPoint slides with your class, on occasion you may want to...
When teaching a synchronous session, we often want students to work together toward an end goal. We also often want a shareable record of that...
Whether you are trying to run a Collaborate session or pre-record a lecture for your course, you probably want access to a web camera. IDS has had a...
To find recorded Blackboard Collaborate sessions, navigate to Blackboard Collaborate inside your course (if all else fails, go to TOOLS in the course...