Adam MasseyBlackboard Collaborate will be unavailable on the morning of 1 August 2018, while Blackboard perform a number of updates. Work will be carried out on both Collaborate Classic and Collaborate Ultra between 0700 and 1200 BST. See details for other timezones. During these times, you will be unable to create or join Collaborate sessions. Note Continue Reading…
New version of the Collaborate Original launcher for macOS
macOS users will need to install a new launcher at the beginning of August. Blackboard are aware of a known issue in the current macOS Launcher (v1.4), which will prevent users receiving updated files required for an upcoming Collaborate Original update. macOS users will need to update their Launcher to continue using Collaborate Original. The Continue Reading…
Ten tools in ten days
Blackboard are running a series of 30 minute webinars, each focusing on a tool within Blackboard Collaborate Ultra.
Interruption to service on 12 May 2018
Neil CocklinBlackboard Collaborate will be intermittently unavailable for up to six hours during the early morning on Sunday, 12 May 2018. The work will begin at 1300 BST and will last six hours. See details for other time zones. During this maintenance window, Collaborate with the Ultra experience with be unavailable! Clients using Collaborate Original will be able to Continue Reading…
Updated Launcher
Blackboard have released a fix for the issue affecting people joining sessions using Collaborate with the Original experience. If you downloaded the Collaborate Launcher between 23 September – 8 October 2016, and you’ve had trouble joining sessions, you will need to download the launcher again – follow the link on that page to the test session, then follow Continue Reading…
Collaborate sessions on the evening of 6 October 2016
Blackboard Learn will be unavailable on Thursday evening.
So you can still run your Collaborate sessions, we can create them for you directly on Collaborate, bypassing Blackboard Learn.
Did you know? – Beyond the Scheduler
The vast majority of people give access to Collaborate sessions via the Collaborate Scheduler in Blackboard. There is nothing wrong with this and actually there are a number of advantages to do it this way. Once a session has been scheduled the link automatically appears in the schedule no further work is required to give Continue Reading…
Did you know? – Breakout Rooms
Breakout Rooms could be thought of as a mini Collaborate session inside your Collaborate session. They have most of the features of the main room, such as audio, video, whiteboard and application sharing. They can be used for many things such as large class activities, group work or private meetings. Public rooms can be created Continue Reading…
What to do about session attendance monitoring?
The last months have not been Collaborates finest hour in relation to session attendance reporting. Collaborate giveth and Collaborate taketh away… Over the summer we updated the building block which amongst other things brought with it the ability to view a list of students that attended a session via the Blackboard interface. No longer did Continue Reading…
Collaborate Blackboard Building Block Upgrades Part 2
In the last post about the updates I forgot to write about one of the new features. Before we get into that here’s a reminder that the update to Blackboard and therefore Collaborate will be happening this weekend, on July 5th. Now for the bit I forgot. Viewing Session Attendance Previously the only ways of Continue Reading…