Collaborate – Getting started Staff guide: How to get started and understand the Collaborate interface and what features it has.
Collaborate – Starting a session First Time Audio and Video Check You must give the browser permission to use audio and video to start or...
Collaborate – Setting up/scheduling sessions Staff guide: A ‘Course Room’ is automatically available for every Blackboard course that allows you to jump straight into a session. However you will also need to create sessions to suit different purposes, this guide takes you through the process.
Collaborate – Roles, permissions, and external guests Staff guide: Find out what the various roles and permissions are with Collaborate and how to interact with them.
Collaborate – Managing attendees Staff guide: From raising hands to promoting attendees to presenters, this guide covers all things related to a sessions audience.
Collaborate – Frequently Asked Questions Staff guide: These are the most common things that can come up whilst using Collaborate all compressed onto one helpful page to get you going again.
Collaborate – Session settings Staff guide: Understand the settings that can control the session and be pre-set before a session takes place.
Collaborate – Large scale sessions Staff guide: By default Blackboard has a limit of 250 participants, if you want to allow for more people this guide shows you how.
Collaborate – Using breakout groups Staff guide: Moderators can assign participants into breakout groups, placing them into a temporary group collaborate room where they can work together before re-joining the main group. Or using a courses 'Groups' allocation.
Collaborate – How to use Blackboard Groups in Collaborate Staff guide: You can allow student groups within your Blackboard course to have their own individual Collaborate rooms. Here shows you how this can be set up.
Collaborate – Sharing content Staff guide: During a session, moderators and presenters may share content so participants can see it. This could be sharing your screen, sharing a browser tab, sharing a presentation, or file. This guide shows how this is done.
Collaborate – Using the polling tool Staff guide: In a session it is quick and easy to create an interactive poll. You may want to ask participants to make a choice, to indicate an opinion, or as a test of knowledge. This guide shows you how.
Collaborate – Reporting on session attendance Staff guide: After a session you may wish to review who attended/joined the session. You can generate an attendance report of a Collaborate session. To see how look here.
Collaborate – Recording a session Staff guide: Record your Collaborate sessions to be reviewed later by your students.
Collaborate – Whiteboard The Whiteboard is used for interacting between session attendees, who can use the content editing tools. A session Moderator or...
Collaborate – Accessing recorded sessions in Blackboard Collaborate We are automatically moving content to be in the courses Panopto 'Recorded Sessions' area overnight. If you cannot see the recording in 'Recorded Sessions' the following guide will show you where to look in Collaborate.
Collaborate – AWS Chime Staff guide: You may notice that when you go to create a new meeting that there is an option under 'Multimedia' to use AWS Chime for audio and video. This is a new feature still in it's infancy, where Collaborate will run from Amazon Web Services (AWS). This offers a much better experience more like you find on Teams for audio and video. Here is more information.
Collaborate – Screen sharing not working on MS Edge You may find that when you try to share your screen on a MS Edge browser that when you select...
Collaborate – Recording title length As we now automatically move your Collaborate recordings into Panopto, you might find that sometimes your recordings have a title...